Francois Lane

Current

• CEO at CakeMail
• CEO at The Code Kitchen
• Founder at NewsletterArchive.org

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Past

• President at Mastodonte
• e-commerce director at BRANCHEZ-VOUS!
• Founder and President at MicroSon

Recommended

3 people have recommended Francois

Connections

279 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• The Code Kitchen
• CakeMail

Francois Lane’s Summary

François Lane is the founder and CEO of CakeMail and The Code Kitchen. Francois oversees the strategic direction of the company and is very active in product management and marketing. Francois is on the cutting edge of marketing communications technology. He is a serial entrepreneur with a considerable history of interactive marketing success:

* Founded MicroSon in 1996, one of the first e-commerce sites in Canada, was acquired by Quebec-based media property BRANCHEZ-VOUS! in 2000.
* Founded Mastodonte Communication in 2002. Launched email marketing platform, Courrielleur and blogging engine, MonBlogue the same year.
* Launched Mastodonte Communication Web-hosting business in 2004.
* Sold MonBlogue, to BRANCHEZ-VOUS!, sold Mastodonte’s Web-hosting business to iWeb, and launched NewsletterArchive.org in 2005.
* Sold Mastodonte Communication (including properties: Wannawin.ca and Toutacoup.ca) to Skooiz.com in 2007, with more than a million members.
* Founded The Code Kitchen in 2007. The Code Kitchen launched CakeMail the same year, which had its genesis in Courrielleur - Courrielleur now is powered by the CakeMail platform.

Francois is passionate about travel, scuba diving and motorbikes.

Francois Lane’s Experience

• CEO

  CakeMail

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  CakeMail is a treat for resellers in the on-demand email newsletter space. It’s totally white label, so agencies get complete control over branding, design, and domain name. And CakeMail’s open, extendable platform enables third-party skins, translations, and plugins.
  
  http://www.cakemail.com

• CEO

  The Code Kitchen

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  We cook up tasty Web apps.
  
  http://www.thecodekitchen.com/

• Founder

  NewsletterArchive.org

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2005 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  NewsletterArchive is a website that aims to archive and make available to the public all email newsletters. It will rely on user contributions for its content.
  
  While several search engines index Web pages and Archive.org keeps an archive of past versions of websites, newsletters are neither archived nor accessible on the Web. This means that the portion of the Internet’s history contained in newsletters exists only in the personal archives of those who have received them and have decided to keep them. NewsletterArchive aims to compile this common heritage, conserve it and make it available to everyone.

Additional Information

Francois Lane’s Websites:

• The Code Kitchen
• CakeMail

Francois Lane’s Interests:

startups, scuba diving, Bonneville, architecture, design

Francois Lane’s Groups:

•    Email Marketer's Club
•    INFOPRESSE
•    Serial Entrepreneurs

Francois Lane’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch