Directeur Général at YouSAAS
Paris Area, France
- Current
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- Directeur Général at YouSAAS
- Member of the Board at ESIEA
- European Expert at European Commission
- Past
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- CEO / Directeur Délégué at Resadia
- Computer Graphics Teacher at ESIEA
- COO / Directeur Général at Quantic Dream
- Director of Technology / Directeur Division Marketing & Production at Cril Telecom Software
- CEO / Co-Founder at Sim Team
- Software Engineering at Alias Wavefront
- Head of virtual reality and special projects at Medialab
- Industrial training at Dassault Aviation
- Education
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- Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
- Orsay University / Normale Sup
- Jussieu University
- Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique
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Philippe Limantour’s Summary
Experienced Top Executive/CEO of fast growing services oriented high-tech businesses.
Experienced manager, with more than 19 years in fast growing IT business development and management, innovating in the field of converged solutions: computing/telecom, pbx/mobile communications, distribution/services, software edition/system integration, SaaS, Cloud Computing...
My background in both international/national experiences have given me a strong knowledge of innovation processes, strategic management, marketing, sales, MP&L, M&A, startup of companies both from scratch and through spinoffing.
At ease in fast-peace startups as in large international structures, multi-cultural environments, I like merging innovation, marketing, communication, technical and strategy skills to develop fast growing business by leading teams and helping them going beyond their wishes and capabilities.
Strong knowledge of B2B, low and Mid Markets, direct or partner and channel management using close-the-loop marketing strategies and change management.
Get in touch with me and let's talk about the growing business we can build together.
Philippe Limantour’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurship, team building and management, B2B marketing and management, operational marketing, interactive marketing, business development, P&L, project and product management, M&A, partner and channel management, deal, R&D management, networking.
SaaS, Telecom, Computing, Software, ToIp, Centrex, VoIP, multimedia, networking, security, SLA, managed services, computer graphics, VR, communication, SaaS
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Philippe Limantour’s Experience
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Directeur Général
YouSAAS
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Founded in 2006, YouSAAS is a global Software as a Service provider that offers ISVs and resellers an innovative and shared platform for SaaS solutions. Covering all necessary actions from key success factors study to being live, with a high-availability infrastructure, know-how and easy deployment plan, YouSAAS makes it possible for software companies to get their software online and offers their clients real SaaS-solutions through the Internet. As a Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center, YouSAAS works with most of the leading international ISVs and Partners - Ensim, Microsoft, Legato, Citrix, Axios Systems, Frontrange, OCC Software, Kayentis… and provides services to more than 20,000 end-users. For more information, visit www.yousaas.com or contact YouSAAS at +33 (0)153 20 62 15 (France), + 31 (0)485 47 61 90 (Netherlands)
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Member of the Board
ESIEA
(Higher Education industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
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European Expert
European Commission
(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1997 — Present (12 years 9 months)
* Audited DGXIII european projects in Brussels as a European Expert in the area of multimedia and real time networking collaborative communication solutions.
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CEO / Directeur Délégué
Resadia
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — April 2008 (6 years 1 month)
Leading French IP Solutions Integrator group.
Resadia designs, integrates and administers secured and real-time B2B communications solutions.
* Developed the services turnover: 40% of the overall turnover in 2002 to 55% in 2006. Global turnover raised an average 12%/year.
567 M€, 480 sales force, 3,500 technical experts, 80,000 midmarket customers. Resadia has become the leading French IP Solutions Integrator group.
http://www.resadia.com
* Merged the 110M€ Resatis and the IT-focused 450M€ Aredia networks in 2006.
* Overachieved annual partnership sales targets each year since 2002.
* Developed and marketed new managed solutions increasing the services turnover by more than 20% per year.
* Increased the turnover by 27% during the first 8 months of management in 2002 and multiplied by 2.4 the net income over turnover ratio, doubling the own capital stocks.
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Computer Graphics Teacher
ESIEA
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1990 — April 2002 (11 years 8 months)
* Teached computer graphics to around 200 students on an average of 15 days per year in parallel of my main professional duties during vacations time.
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COO / Directeur Général
Quantic Dream
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
June 2000 — May 2001 (1 year )
Software Editor.
* Managed a 60M$ and 50 employees business development.
* Was In charge of the production of the multimedia software product.
* Opened a San Francisco based sales office.
* Handled relationship with the board of capital equity investors.
* Won 6 M$ of governmental and industrial grants to help fund the software development. -
Director of Technology / Directeur Division Marketing & Production
Cril Telecom Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)
Software Editor.
* Spin-off mission of a 50 people computer services department out of a 1000 people IT services group.
* Turned it into an autonomous computer software development company.
* Redesigned the internal structure and procedures by working closely with the VP Quality;
* Delivered new software projects in time to the International panel of operators and regulators while they had a overdelay of 20% to 30% before the redesign.
* Greatly improved the visibility, control, and quality insurance of the whole software development process;
* Managed the Software Product Lines Development Strategy.
* Managed a team of over 40 developers and 3 team leaders.
* Hired 10 new people to join the development team.
* Conceived a new software architecture using third-level object oriented and web based architectures.
* Applied Change management, Team management, Business process & operations management skills. -
CEO / Co-Founder
Sim Team
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 9 months)
*Co-created the company and managed it.
*Grew the company to up to 7 people and 10M$ turnover within the first year in integrating Hardware and Software , doing consulting, services, and application development using virtual reality, 3D interactive graphics, stereovision, man to machine interfaces, haptics, for key accounts communication and collaborative working within industrial projects.
* Main duties included Management, P&L, Sales and Presales, Marketing, Finance, and Accounting. -
Software Engineering
Alias Wavefront
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — April 1998 (8 months)
Alias Wavefront, Subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc.. World wide leadership position in 3D Graphics Software Development for the entertainment and industrial design markets.
*Was decreed the technical academy award winning - Oscar statuette - as a member of the R&D and engineering team which developed the Maya software package.
*Conceived and deployed a quality supervision programme which allowed the R&D teams spread over Seattle, Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Toronto and Paris to automatically get daily quality analysis and non regression tests. This project helped delivering time to market best quality Maya 1.0 Software.
*Worked in a highly collaborative environment using all the available IT channels - phone calls, emails, video conferences, ftp, intranet, voice mails ... - with almost 120 people spread over 6 locations, in a multi cultural environment. -
Head of virtual reality and special projects
Medialab
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1991 — September 1997 (6 years 3 months)
Canal+ Group. World wild leadership in VR and RealTime 3D graphics Animation and Rendering.
*Created the industrial VR department - 0 to 12 M$/yr - winning an international call for tenders by the European Space Agency. 0 to 12 M$/yr.
*Hired and managed a dedicated team of up to 9 people.
*Moved a R&D software to a worldwide selling VR product.
*Managed presales, project breakdown and risk and cost analysis.
*Managed simultaneous industrial and broadcast projects in industrial simulations, Live Broadcasting, Scientific visualizations, Realtime character performance animation.
*Managed the first in the world real time TV broadcast of a sport event with Enhanced 2D/3D graphics for the America's Cup San Diego international broadcast center.
*Developed new mocap algorithms for performing realtime facial animation.
*Worked with Moebius - Jean Giraud - on the first worldwide full length 3D movie project Starwatcher.
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Industrial training
Dassault Aviation
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1990 — October 1990 (10 months)
10 months engineering industrial training at DASSAULT AVIATION on studying onboard real time computer graphics systems for the Rafale fighter.
Honors Graduate.
Philippe Limantour’s Education
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Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Economics and Management September 1997 — April 1998
Degree in Marketing, Economics, and Management, Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris.
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Orsay University / Normale Sup
Ph.D. , Mathematics and Computer Science , July 1991 — December 1994
Doctor es Sciences from the Orsay University, Paris XI.
Doctoral Dissertation completed at Medialab and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Mathematics and Computer Department, Paris. (Real time 3D computer graphics performance facial animation. Prof. C. Puech,
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Jussieu University
Higher Studies Degree , Image Art, Science and Technology , September 1990 — June 1991
Higher Studies Degree in Image Art, Science and Technology from the Jussieu University, Paris VIII.
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Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique
Ingénieur , Mathematics, Computer Science, Electronics , 1985 — 1990
5 years study of mathematics and computer science,
10 months engineering industrial training at Dassault Aviation.
Honors Graduate.- Activities and Societies:
- Trophée des multicoques.
Founder and Chairman of AIR-ESIEA.
Conception, realization and launch of scientific experimental rockets with CNES.
Onboard system studies of a photonic propulsion satellite.
- Technologic innovation Award (CNES, 87).
- Technologic achievement and project management quality Award (GIFAS, 89).
- Carrying out security Award (CNES, 89).
- Partner politics management quality Award (PERIF, 90).
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Philippe Limantour’s Interests:
Grow up international SaaS Business through partnerships, best practices sharing, ...
Philippe Limantour’s Groups:
APM Member, Association Progrès du Management.
ACM Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
ACB Association des Cadres Bretons, IEEE Member, Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Club Sénat Member, Club Sénat is the High Tech Think Tank of the French Senate's President, Réseaux De Confiance, ACB: Association des Cadres Bretons
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FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone -
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Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network -
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Cloud Computing Community -
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SaaS Council - Software as a Service Council -
Security SaaS - Fast100 -
SaaS University -
VoIP Focus Expert Group -
FACE - French American Conference of Entrepreneurs -
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TDI (Thomson Digital Image) alumni -
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Club des Partenaires IT -
Intel® Software Partner Program -
Professionnels Français des Télécoms & Réseaux -
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Cloud Computing Marketing, Sales and Business Development -
IT Connexion - Initiatives, Talents & Capital -
ANMV, le réseau social des forces de vente -
In'Vdoc 2010 : des métiers, des processus, des hommes ! -
Managers de France -
IAMCP France -
« Soft et Conseil » : le talent des conseils, les solutions des éditeurs
Philippe Limantour’s Honors:
technical academy award winning - Oscar statuette - as a member of the research & development computer graphics rendering team which developed the winning Maya software.
Who's Who in the World (since 1998), Who's Who in America(since 1998), Who's Who in Finance and Industry (since 2000), Who's Who in Science and Engineering( since 2005), Cambridge International Biographical Center "2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century" (2004).
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