Alexis Bonte

Current

• Co-Founder & CEO at eRepublik Labs Limited

Past

• Customer at b2b ltd (back to the beach ltd)
• Managing Director Italy at lastminute.com
• Marketing and sales director at lastminute.com

• Managing director (now non executive director) at livra.com
• Co-founder and managing director at eurobuysell / tradeok.com
• Business Analyst at CPH Pharma & SEII

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Education

• Lycée Français Charles Lepierre
• London European Business School

Recommended

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Connections

446 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Alexis Bonte’s Summary

General manager with strong entrepreneurial background and a 10 years 360 degrees experience in e-commerce & travel.

Passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environment, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers.

Alexis Bonte’s Specialties:

General management, people management, strategy, culture change, online and offline marketing, PR, business development, entrepreneurship, international development, online media market, commercial sales, e-tourism, pharmaceutical industry, Southern and Eastern Europe, South America.

Alexis Bonte’s Experience

• Co-Founder & CEO

  eRepublik Labs Limited

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years)

  eRepublik Labs mission is to revolutionize the way strategy games are created distributed and player by leveraging the power of communities and the Web.
  
  eRepublik Labs first games is www.erepublik.com a massively multiplayer online social strategy game.
  
  I am also an angel investor and a non executive board member in 7 companies (internet, healthcare and real estate) and the non executive Chairman of www.trilulilu.ro (the top Romanian website in terms of traffic).

• Customer

  b2b ltd (back to the beach ltd)

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)

  After a little more than 6 years in the lastminute.com roller coaster: from
  start up phase to 1b$ trade sale; from London to Paris to Milan, I'm
  getting off the pink train and catching a breath!

• Managing Director Italy

  lastminute.com

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  Managing director of the lastminute.com Group (lastminute.it, travelprice.it, holidayautos.it) in Italy.

• Marketing and sales director

  lastminute.com

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2000 — December 2004 (4 years 9 months)

• Managing director (now non executive director)

  livra.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1999 — April 2000 (1 year)

  Founder of the Livra Europe subsidiary now a board member since I joined lastminute.com

• Co-founder and managing director

  eurobuysell / tradeok.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 1 month)

  Initial business was discontinued and mutated for the launch of Livra Europe

• Business Analyst

  CPH Pharma & SEII

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  November 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 6 months)

  Recently privatized Portuguese pharmaceutical laboratory, acquired by SEII
  
  Role included: Market oportunity analysis (Portugal and Romania), Business development, M&A, Privatisations and new product launches

Alexis Bonte’s Education

• Lycée Français Charles Lepierre

  Bac B , 1981 — 1991

• London European Business School

  BA Honours degree , International Business and Languages

Additional Information

Alexis Bonte’s Websites:

• My Company

Alexis Bonte’s Interests:

TIME sector ventures, innovation, entrepreneurship, contemporary art, smart people.

Alexis Bonte’s Groups:

•    FrenchWeb.org - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Technology Leaders Association
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    E-Commerce Network
•    First Tuesday
•    Casual Games
•    World Gaming Executives
•    Lycée Charles Lepierre Alumni
•    European Internet Professionals
•    Free 2 Play Assembly
•    International Online Developers Association for Games
•    Livra
•    Livra Alumni
•    lastminute.com alumni
•    VirtualWorlds
•    Game Developers Conference® Europe

Alexis Bonte’s Honors:

For eRepublik:
2007: LeWeb3 Special Jury Prize (start up competition)
2008: TechCrunch / FOWA best sart up pitch
2009: Webby Awards Honoree (Games category)

Alexis Bonte’s Contact Settings

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