Dylan Devillers

Current

• Business Journalist at World Investment News

Past

• Business Development & Account Manager at Community Chest
• Consultant at IGenerator
• Key Account Officer at Shawoom

• Co Founder at Unique Events
• Sales manager - Business development at Di Giorgio
• Writer at Ubiqus
• 1st Clerk at BETTATI'S LAW FIRM
• 1st Assistant at BOISSAVY’S LAW FIRM – Corporate Law– Paris
• Assistant Director at France Telecom
• Sales Developer - Paris at RJ Reynolds

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Education

• Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Paris, Sorbonne University
• Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)
• Ecole Alsacienne

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Recommended

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Connections

306 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Dylan Devillers’s Summary

Entrepreneur profile with a strong taste for marketing, communication and advertising within the expertise of high technology, innovation and luxury industry.

As a well read and well travelled world citizen i would like to fully dedicate my skills and enthusiasm to a very challenging job.

From what they said (recommendations) i am notably an efficient, fast thinking, creative, involved, dedicated though available person with an excellent knowledge of the digital world ;-)

Dylan Devillers’s Specialties:

e Marketing, e business, Communication, Strategic Innovation consulting, Technological intelligence & Competitive monitoring, Knowledge & Community management, Networking, PR & Schmoozing, Business Development Strategy, Match Making, Partnership Building, Planning, Event production, 3D Web, immersive environments & behaviours, metaverse, interverse, intraverse,
Websites Production, Blogs, Wikis

Dylan Devillers’s Experience

• Business Journalist

  World Investment News

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Production of a special economic report to promote the Congo's image towards foreign investors through an article to be published in l'EXPRESS Magazine, an international media.
  - Market study, research and analysis on country and sectorial investment environment
  - PR strategies implementation to reach and convince the country's top decision makers
  - Interview of the TOP personalities such as ministers and entrepreneurs (top 100 CEO's and chairman)
  - Negotiate sales and barter agreements : 350 K+ euros within 3 months
  - Create and lead a team to produce the article (driver, guide, assistant, journalists, graphic designer, translator)
  - Create an Investor's Guide to Congo
  - MTH : Make Things Happen

• Business Development & Account Manager

  Community Chest

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  The first communication and marketing agency established both in Paris and Second Life.
  The french leaders to help companies understand and harness the huge potential of virtual worlds.
  
  Business Development & Account Manager :
  
  • Generated more than 500,000 euros of new businesses in 18 months with Global Fortune 500 clients (Shell, ArcelorMittal, Michelin, Schlumberger…) and other leading corporations (Canal+, Lagardere Group, Lacoste, J.P. Gaultier…)
  
  • Full development of client’s marketing and communication strategies
  
  • Organized the first private investor’s 3D conference in a virtual space between ArcelorMittal’s CEO and 250 shareholders across the world. A new virtual meeting center was created following the success of the event
  
  • Conceptualized and organized the first-ever Second Life Camps, now taking place all over Europe and now directly sponsored by the Second Life editors (LindenLab)

• Consultant

  IGenerator

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  - Elaboration of Web 2.0 strategy for entrepreneurs and implementation (blogs, wikis, website development…)
  - Organized the first BarCamps events in France as part of the BarCamp Earth project
  - Technological intelligence & competitive monitoring to provide information to startups owners

• Key Account Officer

  Shawoom

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  - French market study regarding scooters, motos and all recreational vehicles
  - Law & custom study regarding vehicles
  - Elaboration of a distribution network
  - Creation and translation of all direct marketing and specs documents

• Co Founder

  Unique Events

  (Events Services industry)

  May 2004 — 2006 (2 years)

  - Organized tailored events for 100 to 1,200 guests for major clubs and lounges in Paris
  - Generated more than 225,000 euros of business with 25 social events per year

• Sales manager - Business development

  Di Giorgio

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)

  September 2003 — May 2004 (9 months)

  -Defined and developed marketing and selling strategies
  -Launched the 2004 Collection, GP increased 50%
  -Planned and administered all import-export procedures and CRM in the EU zone

• Writer

  Ubiqus

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Events Services industry)

  February 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 11 months)

  - Freelance reporting, executive summaries, and verbatim transcriptions of meetings and seminars
  - Main projects: French Parliament boards of inquiry for the “Prestige” crisis and the "Alzheimer Research Group", annual report of the Dexia Private Bank

• 1st Clerk

  BETTATI'S LAW FIRM

  (Law Practice industry)

  January 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 5 months)

  -Full management of clients files in the fields of private and administrative law and medical malpractice, cases up to 1.5 Million €.
  -Research and analysis, writing of legal opinions, mediation and compromises.
  -Cases and procedures follow up from introduction to Court of Appeal

• 1st Assistant

  BOISSAVY’S LAW FIRM – Corporate Law– Paris

  (Law Practice industry)

  May 2001 — November 2001 (7 months)

  Mr Boissavy is " 1er Secrétaire de la conférence" (Master of Eloquence)
  - Research and analysis, notably in the « French Scouts versus Vivendi-Universal » case. We succeeded to forbid Vivendi-Universal's adverstising campaign usurpating the Scout's image.
  - Writing of company’s and nonprofit organizations by laws

• Assistant Director

  France Telecom

  (Privately Held; FTE; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1999 — September 1999 (2 months)

  SEA CAST Project - Vessel « Adventurer » http://www.ocean-adventurer.com/
  - Material, technical and human logistics, during the implementation of the first high-speed live TV at sea devices
  - Succeeded to "feed" transmit HD TV through satellite from the sea
  - Covered the "Prestige" oil slick live on major national news
  - Succeeded to transmit perfect live TV in a "9 BF" storm

• Sales Developer - Paris

  RJ Reynolds

  (Public Company; rai; Tobacco industry)

  January 1998 — December 1998 (1 year)

  - Sales animation and client follow up of Hotels, Coffee shops and Restaurants
  - On-site direct marketing operations organization and provisional management

Dylan Devillers’s Education

• Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Paris, Sorbonne University

  Master , International Business Management , 2003 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Thesis : The Future of Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) Batteries

• Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)

  Master , Corporate and Tax Law , 1997 — 2001

• Ecole Alsacienne

  high school , 1985 — 1996

Additional Information

Dylan Devillers’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Dylan Devillers’s Interests:

Travels : 26 months abroad in 35 countries on 4 continents Marketing, communication, advertising, Web 3D, Second life, Virtual business, virtual worlds, v economy, networking, PR, Web2.0, Blogs, Wikis, Microformats, coworking, collaborative work spaces, game changers, innovation, technology

Dylan Devillers’s Groups:

Web 3D innovations, A Small World, IAE Alumni, Pourquoi tu cours, ExplorCamp, SecondLifeCampParis, TEC, B R Ent, SL Communicators, Ecole Alsacienne alumni, Assas Alumni, Second Lifers professionnals

•    Global Worker
•    IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School Alumni
•    Marketing Communication
•    Paris 2 Alumni
•    Professional Second Lifers
•    French American Business Alliance
•    IAE Business School Alumni Group
•    Silicon Sentier
•    IntraVerse Awards
•    Chasseurs de Tendances
•    Personal Branding 2.0

Dylan Devillers’s Honors:

- 1st prize, category "R&D" @ Intraverse 2008 for the project "SHELL Innovation Coalition"*
- 2nd prize, category "Education" @ Intraverse 2008 for the project"MICHELIN Entreprise Architecture Training Center"
- 2nd prize, category "Serious Games" @ Intraverse 2008 for the project " Leadership training within virtual worlds"

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