Jean-François Groff

Current

• CTO at Fairtilizer
• Founder at Vizta
• Owner at Groff Conseil

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Past

• CTO at Netvibes
• Founder at InfoDesign
• Did not emigrate at Netscape

• Technical Director at NeXT Computer
• Software Architect at CERN
• Software Developer at Intelsat

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Education

• Institut national des Télécommunications
• Lycée Masséna

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Industry

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Websites

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Jean-François Groff’s Experience

• CTO

  Fairtilizer

  (Music industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Building a community-driven music distribution platform. Funky and 100% DRM-free. Opening April 2007.

• Founder

  Vizta

  (Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

  Building a community focused on places you love. Opening Q2, 2007.

• Owner

  Groff Conseil

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years)

  Consultancy providing technical and business insight drawn from my 15-year expertise in building professional web sites and e-business services. Clients range from tiny start-ups to multi-national corporations.

• CTO

  Netvibes

  (Internet industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  Supported Netvibes towards world domination ;-)

• Founder

  InfoDesign

  (Internet industry)

  1993 — 2001 (8 years)

  Started the first web consultancy and helped it grow to 25 employees. Designed numerous web-centric applications for banking, insurance, industry, health care, trade, media and government customers.

• Did not emigrate

  Netscape

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years)

  Having already worked for a US company, I declined to join Netscape, but many of my www wizard colleagues did, so thanks to this virtual entry I can find them with LinkedIn ;-)

• Technical Director

  NeXT Computer

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year)

  Supervised deployment of NeXT hardware and software and assisted clients in making the most of this technology. Customers in Switzerland included major banks, insurance companies and universities.

• Software Architect

  CERN

  (Research industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years)

  Wrote the World Wide Web base software library with Tim Berners-Lee. This early open-source code enabled several teams to easily write fully interoperable web browsers and servers on any computing platform.

• Software Developer

  Intelsat

  (Defense & Space industry)

  1990 — 1990 (less than a year)

  Developed parts of an expert system to diagnose satellite failures from real-time telemetry and suggest corrective actions before further damage occurred. This endeavour succesfully prolonged the service lifespan of the Intelsat V constellation.

Jean-François Groff’s Education

• Institut national des Télécommunications

  Engineer (M.S.) , Computing, Networks, Satellites , 1987 — 1990

• Lycée Masséna

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