Gilles Dumortier

Gilles Dumortier

Entrepreneur and Investor

Paris Area, France

Current
Past
  • R&D Team Manager at SAGEM Communication
  • COO & Shareholder at ARKALIS SCI
  • Founder and Principal Adviser at InSeal SAS
  • R&D Java Team Leader at SAGEM
  • R&D Manager at Oberthur
  • International Consultant at Freelance
  • CTO and Co-Founder at ERIS AUTOMATION
  • Project Manager at SONERIA
Education
  • Institut Français de Gestion (IFG)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Gilles Dumortier’s Summary

General Management, Engineering and Product Manager, Product Roadmap & Strategy, Business Angel (hobby).

Capable of balancing technology and management in order to optimize the effectiveness and development of the teams.

Gilles Dumortier’s Specialties:

Engineering and Product Management : subcontracting, technology purchasing, intellectual property, software architecture & security, embedded development, technology surveys, telecom applications & markets, industrial automation & supervision application software, computer languages, near/off-shore deployement, product strategy & roadmap.

Start-up : brainstorming, strategic development, advising, funding, entrepreneur, coaching, business angel, teambuilding, hiring, out of the box projects.


Gilles Dumortier’s Experience

  • ...

    ...

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2009Present (3 months)

    ... stay tuned ... could be the next big thing

  • Chairman of the Board

    NOVARIS EQUITY

    (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Shareholder (Founder), Chairman of the board.

    NOVARIS EQUITY is a french venture capital firm composed of 36 benevolant Business Angels with the main mission to invest money in french startups. Officially incorporated in June 2008.

    Jump to http://www.novaris.fr

    NOVARIS is also strongly affiliated with the french Association "VAL ANGELS" (formerly "Business Angels du Val de Marne"). I'm also a member of this association since June 2009.

  • Director

    Myriad Group AG

    (Public Company; MRYN; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2008September 2009 (1 year )

    (formely Purple Labs, ex SAGEM Mobiles)

    Director, Mass Market 3G Application-Suite. Transition management for the Cergy Development Center - France.

  • CTO

    KEYNECTIS

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    June 2008October 2008 (5 months)

    In charge of Pre-Sales, Projects Management, R&D, Professional Services, Qualification, Customers Supports and Infrastructures Management Departments (35+ engineers) for the European leading provider of trust technologies and services.

  • R&D Software Manager

    SAGEM Mobiles

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2007June 2008 (1 year 6 months)

    Manage Software Teams for the 3G Mobile Phones activities (110+ engineers and many subcontracts to near/off-shore centers)

  • R&D Team Manager

    SAGEM Communication

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2004December 2006 (2 years 3 months)

    Lead of Third Parties Application software development teams (Messaging, Browser, Java, Imode) for Mobile Phones (55 engineers)

    Manage subcontracts to software companies (15 persons full time in France and some more in US, Deutchland, India, Serbia, Israel, UK)

  • COO & Shareholder

    ARKALIS SCI

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 1999November 2006 (7 years 7 months)

    Information-management and real estate for offices

    on november 2006, all the offices held by the company were sold successfully. The company will be dissolved at the end of the operation.

  • Founder and Principal Adviser

    InSeal SAS

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

    October 2003May 2006 (2 years 8 months)

    Shareholder (Founder) and Principal Adviser.

    on May 2006, On Track Innovations Ltd. (NASDAQ:OTIV) announced that it has acquired 100% of InSeal SAS share capital for an aggregate of 243,800 of its ordinary shares and 180,000 warrants.

    InSeal's revenues for 2005, the first year in which their product was sold, were approximately $560,000 with about breakeven operating results. InSeal's revenues, which are expected to grow rapidly, are derived mainly from licensing and engineering fees.

    InSeal SAS is a Marseille, France based company presently providing an operating system for contactless applications to a variety of customers in the payments market. InSeal's JayCOS is presently in use in contactless payments programs in the U.S.

  • R&D Java Team Leader

    SAGEM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2003September 2004 (1 year 9 months)

    Build then Lead the Java team for Mobile Phones (up to 16 engineers)

    Develop the MIDP/JTWI and DOJA technologies. First worldwide certified MIDP 2.0 handset (myV65). First european-build Imode handset.

    Manage subcontracts to one biggest software company (US and Israel)

  • R&D Manager

    Oberthur

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OCS; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2001January 2003 (1 year 6 months)

    Contactless (RFID, ISO/IEC 14443, ISO/IEC 15693) technology

    Many prototypes developed for the emerging markets of transportation, payment and identity using contactless technology. IDOne, European Citizen Card (experimental norm AFNOR), using RSA and key generation, nominated to Sesam Card Exhibition'2002.

  • International Consultant

    Freelance

    (Computer Software industry)

    June 2000July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

    NewtGames (setup technical part of the project)
    Bayside Interactive, Inc. Miami (IPTV development)
    PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Lybrand (Technical audits)

  • CTO and Co-Founder

    ERIS AUTOMATION

    (Industrial Automation industry)

    January 1994May 2000 (6 years 5 months)

    Industrial Automotive and Physical Security Supervision Systems.

  • Project Manager

    SONERIA

    (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

    July 1987July 1992 (5 years 1 month)

    Industrial Automotive, Software Supervision, Special Testing Benches


Gilles Dumortier’s Education

  • Institut Français de Gestion (IFG)

    Master , Strategic Management and Business Administration ICG , 20082009

    Executive MBA

    Activities and Societies:
    Study of the vanilla market and associated business for Eurovanille - www.eurovanille.com
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Master (D.E.A.) , Computer Science, Distributed Artificial Intelligence , 19911992

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Master , Computer Science, Micro-electronics , 19901991

    Activities and Societies:
    During internship, developed Yet Another Graphic Layout Extractor then reverse the layout of the R3000 core.
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Licence , Computer Science, Software Engineering , 19891990


Additional Information

Gilles Dumortier’s Websites:

Gilles Dumortier’s Interests:

financial investment, management, entrepreneurship, computer science, python, AI, sci-fi, the next big thing

Gilles Dumortier’s Groups:

IEEE, Advogato, Entreprendre à Rueil, VAL ANGELS

  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    The Official IEEE Group
  •    Python Community
  •    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
  •    Private Equity Investment Group
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    VENTURE CAPITAL EUROPE
  •    IFG Executive MBA
  •    Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6) Alumni Association
  •    Advogato
  •    ex SAGEM MOBILE PHONE employees
  •    SpinOut
  •    Mobile Phone Design
  •    The Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Board
  •    Myriad Group AG Employees - past & present
  •    Oberthur Technologies
  •    Val'Angels

Gilles Dumortier’s Honors:

Patents : 2 international patents
Publications : 3 (IEEE)


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