
Gut-wrenching Dilemmas and Business Angeling
Paris Area, France

Gut-wrenching Dilemmas and Business Angeling
Paris Area, France
R&D Manager, Business Angel
R&D Management : subcontracting and technology purchasing, intellectual property, software architecture & security, embedded development, technology surveys, telecommunication applications and markets, industrial automation&supervision application software, computer languages, near/off-shore deployement
Start-up : brainstorming, strategic development, advising, funding, entrepreneur, coaching, business angel, teambuilding, hiring, out of the box projects
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Manage Software Teams for the 3G Mobile Phones activities (110+ engineers and many subcontracts to near/off-shore centers)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
July 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Shareholder (Founder), Chairman of the board and Principal Partner.
NOVARIS EQUITY is a french venture capital firm composed of Business Angels with the main mission to invest money in french startups. Jump to http://www.novaris.fr
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)
October 2004 — December 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)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — November 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.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
October 2003 — May 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.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)
January 2003 — September 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)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; OCS; Telecommunications industry)
August 2001 — January 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.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)
NewtGames (setup technical part of the project)
Bayside Interactive, Inc. Miami (HMS)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Lybrand (technical audits)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Industrial Automation industry)
January 1994 — May 2000 (6 years 5 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
July 1987 — July 1992 (5 years 1 month)
Master, Strategic Management and Business Administration ICG, 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Master (D.E.A.), Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, 1991 — 1992
Master, Computer Science, Micro-electronics, 1990 — 1991
Licence, Computer Science, Software Engineering, 1989 — 1990
financial investment, management, entrepreneurship, computer science, python, AI, sci-fi, the next big thing
IEEE, LinkedInnovators, Advogato
Patents : 2 international patents
Publications : 3 (IEEE)