Dylan Devillers

Dylan Devillers

International Sales Executive-Business Journalist at World Investment News

Congo

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
Education
  • Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Paris, Sorbonne University
  • Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)
  • Ecole Alsacienne
Connections
306 connections
Industry
Marketing and Advertising
Websites

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 2008Present (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 2006August 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)

    20062007 (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)

    20062006 (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 20042006 (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 2003May 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 2001December 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 2002May 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 2001November 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 1999September 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 1998December 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 , 20032004

    Activities and Societies:
    Thesis : The Future of Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) Batteries
  • Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)

    Master , Corporate and Tax Law , 19972001

  • Ecole Alsacienne

    high school , 19851996


Additional Information

Dylan Devillers’s Websites:

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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