Youcef Hamadache

Current

Managing Director Cycos France at Cycos AG / Siemens

Past

Senior Business Development Manager - Corporate Development at Cycos AG / Siemens
Senior Channel Manager - International Sales at CYCOS AG / Siemens
Sales Manager EMEA at SOFTPRO GmbH

Head of Worldwide Business Development at Philips Speech Processing (now Nuance)
Interactive Voice Response Division Manager at KREUTLER GmbH
Project Manager at Siemens AG

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Education

College-Fachhochschule, Major: Computer Science

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Industry

Telecommunications

Youcef Hamadache’s Summary

* 20 Years of professional experience: Managing Director, Corporate development, Business development, Direct & indirect sales and Product management;
* Unified Messaging & Unified Communications, Collaboration, Interactive Voice Response, Speech Recognition, Contact center, Biometrics & Command Control.
*Generated and developed business for various sized companies on regional as well as international scale; Analyzing & understanding technologies/products in relation to business needs, Positioning along the value chain & distillation of compelling value propositions, Go-to-market
*Multilingual: French, German, English, Arabic
*Bi-national: German & Algerian

Youcef Hamadache’s Specialties:

Business Development/ Executive sales/ Channel Management/ Crossing the chasm / International Growth/P&L
Command, Control, Communication & Information/ Telecommunications/ IVR Interactive Voice Response/ Voice Portal/ Speech Recognition/ Biometrics/ Unified Messaging & Communications/ Collaboration, Convergence

Youcef Hamadache’s Experience

Managing Director Cycos France

Cycos AG / Siemens

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Managing Director of Cycos SAS, French subsidiary of Cycos AG.
Senior Business Development Manager - Corporate Development

Cycos AG / Siemens

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 2006 — August 2007 (11 months)

Go-to-Market & Business Development for Media Portal Suite, Cycos new generation platform for Voice Portal, Unified Communication & Real Time Collaboration convergence
Senior Channel Manager - International Sales

CYCOS AG / Siemens

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RIC, YOSG.F.; Telecommunications industry)

October 2005 — September 2006 (1 year )

Senior Channel Manager International Sales at Cycos AG, the leading vendor of unified messaging and unified communications solutions for corporate and institutional customers. Integrating fax, voice, email, SMS & CTI into one single solution; optimizing and rationalizing communications processes, with the option to integrate them directly into CRM or ERP systems. Value proposition: optimized processes; costs saving; increased availability and staff & customer satisfaction.
Sales Manager EMEA

SOFTPRO GmbH

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

May 2001 — September 2005 (4 years 5 months)

Manager EMEA Sales, for biometry based signature verification technology, products and solutions, targeting the financial, insurance, healthcare, telecommunication and government verticals via distributors and IT-security and online-business markets via value-added resellers.
Head of Worldwide Business Development

Philips Speech Processing (now Nuance)

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 7 months)

Worldwide business development for natural speech recognition technology and related interactive applications in the telecommunication, enterprise and call center market.
Interactive Voice Response Division Manager

KREUTLER GmbH

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

1990 — 1996 (6 years )

Division Manager for Interactive Response Systems and related solutions, including responsibility for sales, system developments, realization of customized applications and after sales services.
Project Manager

Siemens AG

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1985 — December 1989 (4 years 4 months)

Project Manager responsible for the handling of large IT projects, coordination of subcontractors, producing of project specifications, concept of approval and maintenance, in the area of process control, network data transmission and remote control systems.