Technology Columnist at L'Expansion, Groupe Express-Roularta
San Francisco Bay Area
Technology Columnist at L'Expansion, Groupe Express-Roularta
San Francisco Bay Area
Education Overview
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Received a diploma from the two major French journalism schools - Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes/CFPJ (Paris) and l'Ecole Supérieur des Journalistes/ESJ (Lille) - and a BSc (Hns) in Computing for Real Time Systems from Bristol Polytechnic (UK).
Expert in Oral and Writing Communication, both in French and English. Systematic, organised and used to working under tight deadlines. Global team player.
(Writing and Editing industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
TechPulse 360 is a technology blog of professional journalists Mark Boslet and Jean-Baptiste Su, tracking innovation in Silicon Valley.
(Writing and Editing industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
The French News Agency is a media and research company providing interactive news, market intelligence and consulting services focused on the world of business and technology. Created in 2006 by veteran journalists in both Europe and the United States, the French News Agency is serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for business outlets such as Le Figaro, L'Expansion, technology publications (01 Informatique, Décision Informatique...) and online customers including France's largest high-tech web sites, 01net.com, Indexel.net and ZDNet France. With bureaus in both Europe and the United States, FNA provides distinctive news services, research and analysis in all formats (text, photos, videos, podcasts...) with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed.
(Writing and Editing industry)
September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Founded in 1969, L’Expansion is the reference in France for general economic information, providing inside information about markets, companies and their managers from the national and global prospective. L'Expansion is part of public company Roularta Media Group NV, a Belgian-French media conglomerate founded in 1953, with more than 3,000 employees and a consolidated turnover of 750 million euros.
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)
The blog transferred to TechPulse360.com. Bigger and better :-)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Restaurants industry)
February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Check out the San Jose Mercury News' review of Gervais:
http://events.mercurynews.com/reviews/show/13118-review-gervais-restaurant
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LVMH; Newspapers industry)
June 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 4 months)
I covered media and technology issues for La Tribune, France's business and financial newspaper, with feature stories, daily news, product news, case studies and interviews for both the daily paper and the Technology weekly supplement.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
August 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 11 months)
I left Versailles for San José ! And started covering the Bubble Years for Groupe Tests trade magazines (Décision Micro & Réseaux, 01 Informatique, 01 Réseaux and 01Net). Today, I still contribute some high-tech stories to 01Net (www.01net.com), France's first Tech web site.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)
I was hired by an ex-IDG to join this leading French IT weekly magazine that slowly but surely became an ex-IDGers 'hangout' :-)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
October 1993 — August 1998 (4 years 11 months)
I've started as editor at the French edition of PCWorld (InfoPC) and then moved on as senior editor to Le Monde Informatique (ComputerWorld). I've also contributed to other publications within the Group such as Distributique (competitor to Computer Reseller News), Golden/MacWorld and Réseaux & Télécoms (Network World).
(Writing and Editing industry)
1993 — 1998 (5 years)
MSc , Computing , 1992 — 1993
Not completed. Dropped out to start my journalism career ;-)
BSc (Hns) , Computing in Real-Time Systems , 1991 — 1992
It was still called Bristol Polytechnic when I attended it :)