Arnaud Fischer

Current

• Founder & CEO at Glam.fr
• Principal - Consultant at Search is the Internet OS

Past

• Director - AOL Search at Time Warner/AOL
• Group Product Manager at Altavista Search
• Product Planner at Microsoft Corp

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Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
• Université de Montréal - HEC Montréal
• McGill University

• Université de Montréal

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Connections

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Industry

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Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Arnaud Fischer’s Summary

User-obsessed and Competition-paranoid Search Veteran and Business Professional with 14 years experience planning, building, taking to market and monetizing Consumer Web services & online advertising solutions with Microsoft, AOL Search, Altavista and Infospace. Product Leader with proven track record in product strategy, planning, management and marketing with the unique combination of strategic vision and tactical skills. Bilingual English/French.

Arnaud Fischer’s Specialties:

Product strategy, planning and management, positioning, differentiation, target markets, messaging, traffic acquisition, monetization.

Online Consumer Web services, portals, social networks and communities

Online Advertising: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), analytics, social Marketing, sentiment analysis & reputation management, local SMB online advertising and landing pages.

Arnaud Fischer’s Experience

• Founder & CEO

  Glam.fr

  (Internet industry)

  October 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)

  Glam.fr  est une plateforme de vertical social media offrant aux individus et organisations showrooms de talents, outils de productivités et branding personel, espaces de communications et ecommerce storefronts.
  
  Our vision is to evolve Web engagement into individual talents and media showrooms, personal productivity, communication and branding management platforms, and transactional ecommerce storefronts.
  
  Glam's verticals include:
  . http://www.GlamFree.com: freelances communication pour annonceurs et agences
  . http://www.GlamShows.com: artistes du spectacle vivant pour agences événementiel
  . http://www.GlamAct.com: comediens et comediennes pour agence de casting et production
  . http://www.GlamSpeak.com: conférenciers et animateurs pour conventions, séminaires, conférences, congrès, lancements de produits, événements festifs, soirées, festivals etc
  . http://www.GlamCom.com: célébrités pour marques
  
  Our goal is to extend the technology to many more verticals and localize the platform. The Glam One platform is already available as a white lable enterprise solution to deploy your own talent and advertising network.
  
  The Glam architecture is built on innovative, original and integrated best of brid open source standards. Better, different, disruptive, socially-integrated, real time and in-synch with the market.

• Principal - Consultant

  Search is the Internet OS

  (Internet industry)

  July 1998 — Present (11 years 5 months)

  Consulting in online Consumer Web services, portals, social networks and communities: product strategy, planning and management, positioning, differentiation, target markets, messaging and traffic acquisition.
  Consulting in Online Advertising: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Landing Pages, Analytics, Social Marketing, Sentiment analysis & Reputation management, Local SMB online advertising.

• Director - AOL Search

  Time Warner/AOL

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  October 2004 — June 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  Responsible for identifying and evangelizing AOL Search awareness, audience, product engagement growth opportunities for AOL's $500MM+ search business.

• Group Product Manager

  Altavista Search

  (Privately Held; CMGI; Internet industry)

  June 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Led AltaVista search product marketing management team including recruiting and managing 10 product managers and producers.

• Product Planner

  Microsoft Corp

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  October 1996 — July 1999 (2 years 10 months)

  Contributed to defining Microsoft’s product vision for the next line of Home Productivity Offerings (Works, Home Essentials, Money, Investor.com, Encarta, Bookshelf, Internet Explorer, Expedia.com, MSN portals, and integration of online properties).

Arnaud Fischer’s Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management

  MBA , Marketing , 1993 — 2012 (expected)

• Université de Montréal - HEC Montréal

  BBA , Marketing & International Finance , 1989 — 1992

• McGill University

  Marketing 1989 — 1990

• Université de Montréal

  Analytical economics 1987 — 1988

Additional Information

Arnaud Fischer’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Arnaud Fischer’s Interests:

Social search, Web 2.0, user interaction models and mashups, personalization, verticalization, API-driven syndication and distribution models, computational linguistic, data mining, sentiment analysis. Search engine technology, consumer search & information retrieval, Online advertising, behavioral and contextual targeting, paid search, SEO and SEM, econometrics, buzz monitoring, sentiment analysis, social networking application such as collaborative tag-retory building and ranking.

Arnaud Fischer’s Groups:

•    AOLAlumni
•    FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
•    Drupal
•    Web 2.0
•    Semantic technologies
•    Social search
•    Search Marketing Salon
•    University of Texas at Dallas Alumni (2700+ members)
•    Digital Marketing
•    Social Media Today
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    AltaVista
•    Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal (HEC)
•    GlamFree - freelances de talent pour l'industrie de la communication
•    Glam France

Arnaud Fischer’s Honors:

Publications
. Search Engine Land, The Impending Social Search Inflection Point
. Search Engine Watch, Paid Search Programs Finally Growing Up
. Search Engine Watch, What's it Going to Take to Beat Google?
. Global Marketing, in Marketing, N. Turgeon, Ph.D., 1990
. International Sponsoring (co-author), 1995

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