Gwenaël Le Bodic
CEO at Greencopper
- Location
- Montreal, Canada Area
- Industry
- Internet
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Gwenaël Le Bodic's Overview
- Current
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- CEO at Greencopper
- Past
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- Senior Product Manager at Airwide Solutions
- Product Manager at Oz Communications (now Nokia)
- Senior Solution Architect at Vodafone Group
- Business and Technology analyst at Alcatel Mobile Phones (now Alcatel-Lucent)
- Researcher at University of Strathclyde - Mobile VCE
- Education
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- University of Strathclyde
- Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
- Institut Universitaire des Technologies - Vannes
- Recommendations
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10 people have recommended Gwenaël
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Gwenaël Le Bodic's Summary
I am directing Greencopper, a company I founded in 2009. Greencopper offers innovative event and cultural apps for smartphones and is leading this field with the publication of apps for 60+ events, 100+ apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry). Greencopper has local offices in North America (Montreal, Canada) and Europe (France).
In the past, I worked for several telecommunications companies and was in charge of building large-scale telecom-grade solutions in the domain of mobile messaging. I authored several reference books as an outcome of these activities.
I occasionally act as expert witness in the domain of mobile communications.
Specialties
- Business management
- Product/marketing
- Mobile technologies
- Book authoring, lecturing and consulting
- Expert witness
Gwenaël Le Bodic's Experience
CEO
Greencopper
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
2009 – Present (3 years)
Greencopper offers innovative event and cultural apps for smartphones and is leading this field with the publication of apps for 30+ festivals in 2010, 45+ apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry). Greencopper has local offices in North America (Montreal, Canada) and Europe (France).
Senior Product Manager
Airwide Solutions
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Wireless industry
September 2007 – April 2010 (2 years 8 months)
Product management: definition of service propositions, business cases, price books, requirement definition, R&D coordination, management of partner relationships, support to sales and operations teams. Responsible for several telco-grade messaging products including MMS centre, MMS bulk/push engine, SMS/MMS gateways and LDAP repositories.
Definition of strategy towards future messaging services and technologies including converged messaging, presence services, mobile advertizing and mobile broadband. Evaluation of innovative models for delivering services in the converged world of Internet and mobile communications.
Airwide's lead for standardization activities at OMA, 3GPP/ETSI and GSMA. Focus on Converged-IP Messaging (CPM), Converged Address Book (CAB), Mobile Advertising (MobAd) and Rich Communications Suite (RCS).
Product Manager
Oz Communications (now Nokia)
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry
April 2006 – September 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Definition and management of mobile messaging products for mobile operators and device manufacturers. Work with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, server/client architects and developers, user interface designers, documentation, legal, etc.) to achieve product objectives.
Senior Solution Architect
Vodafone Group
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry
October 2003 – May 2006 (2 years 8 months)
- Definition of MMS technology strategy and roadmap
- Design of messaging solutions (business case evaluation, use case modeling, requirements engineering, architecture design)
- Vendor management activities
- Standardization (OMA, 3GPP, GSM Association)
- MMS interworking (between operators) and service interworking (SMS, Email)
- Design of solutions for multi-operator environments
- Technical lead for the set-up of field trials for messaging proofs of concept.
Business and Technology analyst
Alcatel Mobile Phones (now Alcatel-Lucent)
October 2000 – October 2003 (3 years 1 month)
- Expert in Mobile Messaging technology and services
- Standardization (ETSI, OMA, 3GPP)
- Selection of 3rd party software solution (MMS, IMPS, etc.)
- Design of messaging solution for Alcatel's first two MMS phones
Gwenaël Le Bodic's Education
University of Strathclyde
PhD, Telecommunications
1997 – 2000
Thesis on the topic of a digital marketplace where intelligent agents representing users can negotiate services with agents representing mobile operators. A new business model for delivering mobile communications and an exciting ecosystem to understand the concepts of market dynamics, auction techniques and agent technology.
My research were funded by the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in the UK.
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
Ing., Computer Science
1994 – 1997
Institut Universitaire des Technologies - Vannes
Gwenaël Le Bodic's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Book authoring: 1) Mobile Messaging, 2nd Edition - February 2005, Publisher: Wiley & Sons 2) Multimedia Messaging Service - October 2003, Publisher: Wiley & Sons 3) Mobile Messaging, 2nd Edition (also available in Russian) - November 2002, Publisher: Wiley & Sons
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Courses and speaker at industry events: - Paper on Mobile services with applications (26 - 29 October 2009, Bordeaux, France) - ICIN 2009 – Beyond the bit pipes - Panel on Mobile Advertising (23 - 24 September 2008, Toronto, Canada) - The Messaging Industry Association (TMIA) - Mobile Messaging (17 - 18 June 2008) / University of Oxford - Mobile Messaging (11 January 2007) / IEEE CCNC Las Vegas - Mobile Messaging (20 - 21 June 2006) / University of Oxford
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- Honors and Awards:
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Member of the Alcatel Technical Academy (2003)
Selection of awarded patents:
. 1) Mobile communications network (hierarchical network infrastructure)
. 2) Method of activating a camera from a remote terminal
. 3) Terminal comprenant des moyens pour activer l'interface homme-machine d'un terminal distant
. 4) Method and system for transmitting/receiving multimedia content via a radiocommunication network
. 5) Multimedia Messaging Service comprising a service indicating recipient's absence
. 6) Multimedia Messaging Service comprising a reply field indication request date
. 7) Dynamic selection of radio communication network operator or service provider
. 8) Mobile communications networks (resouce management via digital marketplace)
. 9) Enhanced Message Service comprising identifier and reuse information elements
. 10) System of interoperability between MMS message and SMS/EMS messafe and associated exchange method
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