Eric Didier

Current

CEO and co-founder at ividence

Past

COO at Viadeo
EVP for the Americas - Interim COO at Sunopsis
VP Integrated Metadata Management Solutions Platform at ASG

CEO - Founder and Chairman of the Board at Soamai
Managing Director for the French & Northern Europe subsidiaries at Ross Systems
VP Sales France-Belgium at Parametric Technology (PTC)
Scientific IT and Mechanical Simulation Center Manager at Thomson Brandt Armement

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Education

Ecole nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers

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500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Eric Didier’s Summary

Formerly co-founder, owner and CEO of Soamai - APM and Metadata Management Software -, successfully acquired by an American software company in 2004, then COO for Viadeo, I am now launching a brand new venture ... called ividence !

Eric Didier’s Specialties:

Exceptional experience and skills in building teams to create, develop, promote and sell high added-value solutions (Web and Corporate software).

Eric Didier’s Experience

CEO and co-founder

ividence

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

ividence is a software company based in Paris, created on November 2008 by 2 serial entrepreneurs.
ividence develops a SaaS platform for the emailing market that maximizes new customers acquisition efficiency and drastically decreases acquisition costs.
ividence got its first round of financing on March 2009 ($1.5m)
ividence platform (already) signed his first customer on June 2009.
COO

Viadeo

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — October 2008 (2 years)

Viadeo is a European Business Social Network.

With more than 4 million members, Viadeo is expanding its European and Chinese presence .

I was in charge of building Viadeo operations and teams all over the world - 5 offices worldwide. Over the last 2 years, Viadeo members base has increased by 1+ million in Europe and 2+ million in China.
EVP for the Americas - Interim COO

Sunopsis

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)

In charge of building Sunopsis operations for the United States, Latin America and Canada.

Sunopsis was recognized as an emerging market leader for Data Warehouse ETL (Extraction, Transform and Load) and Integration of Data, Events and Services. Sunopsis was ranked a visionary player by Gartner Group in its 2005 version of the ETL Magic Quadrant.

My charter included P&L, Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing, Professional Services and Support.

• Results: This subsidiary (10+ employees) generated yearly $3 M revenue with 10+ new customers in 2006 - including 3 Fortune 500 Clients - and generated a 28% pre-tax profit.
A global web marketing initiative generated 500+ leads per month in the Americas.
More than 10 key partners and institutions joined the Sunopsis’ business network and promoted the company’s vision and offering.

Sunopsis has been acquired by Oracle on October 2006
VP Integrated Metadata Management Solutions Platform

ASG

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — February 2006 (2 years)

ASG is a privately held company based in Naples, Florida – 1000+ employees
I sold Soamai to ASG in March 2004

I built and drove the worldwide division dedicated to Rochade & becubic, leading software solutions dedicated to Metadata management, APM & IT Asset Intelligence (applications discovery, understanding and modernizing)

• Results: This division (100+ employees) generated $30M revenue; I demonstrated a 106% increase of Software Sales in 18 months with 10+ new Fortune 500 Clients and a 39% pre-tax profit.

I closely worked with Gartner Group who rated in 2005 this ASG division #1 in their Metadata Management Repositories Magic Quadrant.
CEO - Founder and Chairman of the Board

Soamai

(Computer Software industry)

November 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 5 months)

Leading software vendor on the APM and IT asset Intelligence market (applications discovery, understanding and modernizing).

I drove the whole strategy and day-to-day operations of Soamaï that I created at the end of the year 2000.
Starting from scratch, I built the whole Executive team and grew company revenue up to €2M ($2.4M) and 45 employees within 3 years.
I drove the 2 fund raising rounds ($10M) and an acquisition on November 2001, that led to a successful exit in March 2004.
I handled OEM, reseller (Japan) & partners (big 5) agreements (3 large ones) and personally drove the relationship with Gartner and Forester Analysts.
I was also directly in charge of HR, Finance & Legal and acting as the company CFO.
I was awarded the “2003 Fastest Growing Company” capital-IT trophy.
Managing Director for the French & Northern Europe subsidiaries

Ross Systems

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 8 months)

Ross Systems is developping an ERP dedicated to "Process oriented" industries(Food and Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical).

The first challenge was the strategic repositioning of the French 8 years old subsidiary from a pure financial ERP market to a total ERP/SCM solution dedicated to process manufacturing industries.
Success has been reached within 2 years, with an excellent momentum and a great spontaneous notoriety.
Turnover growth of the entity tripled to reach $6M, as the team grew up from 10 to 40 people. More than 30 new name accounts purchased Ross Systems’ solution, and the creation of a new alliance strategy (Euriware, Transiciel) led to major implementation partnerships.
I was in charge of P&L, Finances, Marketing, Pre-Sales and Post-Sales teams.
VP Sales France-Belgium

Parametric Technology (PTC)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

November 1990 — February 1997 (6 years 4 months)

PTC is the leading Company in the Mechanical CADCAM industry.

Third employee of the French subsidiary, I was in charge of growing business and building Sales and Pre-sales teams.
I hired and trained 50+ Sales and Pre-sales, with a $30M quota.
I closed large deals at 3 Fortune 500 new accounts and sold several $1M+ deals.
I opened and expanded 8 local offices.
Company has grown from 2.7M$ to $1B within 7 years.
Scientific IT and Mechanical Simulation Center Manager

Thomson Brandt Armement

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

September 1987 — November 1990 (3 years 3 months)

I built the whole scientific & technical IT solutions (Cray, Vax, Unix, PCs).
A $3M budget with a 4 people team (C++ and FORTRAN development) in charge of mechanical and thermal simulation on Mica and MLRS (French and US missiles)

Eric Didier’s Education

Ecole nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers

Master , Mechanical Engineering , 1983 — 1986

One of the top 6 French Engineering School
Personal ranking 7 over 1000.
Memoir on Mechanical & Thermal Simulation for Nuclear Central mechanical faults.