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

21 people have recommended Alexis

Connections

500+ 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 4 months)

  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.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Gaming People - The Gaming People Expert Network (+10.000)
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Technology Leaders Association
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    E-Commerce Network
•    FREE ONLINE MMORPG & MMO GAMES | MMO hub.org
•    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 Payments
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Backed Managers
•    Game Developers Conference® Europe
•    Social Impact Games

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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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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