Entrepreneur, angel investor
Paris Area, France
- Current
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- Co-founder & CEO at vpod.tv
- Blogger at sepulveda.net
- Co-founder & Managing Partner at RISC Partners
- Past
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- interim CEO at glowria.fr
- Business Developer & Strategist, Mobility at AOL Europe (a TimeWarner company)
- Director (Principal) at Gemini Consulting (now Capgemini)
- Manager at KPMG Consulting (now BearingPoint)
- Pre-Sales Consultant at Novell Europe
- Consultant at Intel Europe
- Education
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- Wharton Business School, U. Penn.
- INSEAD
- IAE de Paris
- EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
- Ecole Française de Bangkok
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Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Summary
Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, 37, is the co-founder and CEO of vpod.tv, a multimedia platform enabling corporations to create their own convergent InternetTV channels.
Recent customers include global brands such as L’Oréal, Danone, BNP Paribas, French Government, Fanta, Leroy-Merlin; media groups such as Radio Monte-Carlo, BFM, 20minutes.fr, France24 television, 01net.fr, Groupe Hersant; telcos such as SFR and large e-commerce sites.
vpod.tv has received numerous Innovation awards in Europe and the USA. In 2006, vpod.tv raised a $5.1m series A from Innovacom, the investment arm affiliated with Orange. Angel investors include serial entrepreneurs Martin Varsavsky (Fon), Loïc Le Meur (Seesmic) and Xavier Niel (Iliad/free.fr).
Previously, as acting CEO, he was instrumental in the successful launch and recent sale of glowria, a leading European online movie service.
In 2004, he led the mobile strategy team for AOL Europe, redefining the group's online and mobile presence.
Earlier, Rodrigo was a principal with Gemini Consulting, and a manager (founder of the e-business practice) at KPMG Consulting France, leading large scale European e-commerce (pan-European launch of Manutan.com) and media projects (global launch of OMD's online sites). He started his career as a consultant to the European operations of Intel and Novell.
Rodrigo is a Computer Science Engineer from EPITA, a graduate from the Sorbonne MBA (IAE de Paris), and holds an MBA from INSEAD, including an exchange term at the MBA program of the Wharton School in Philadelphia.
He is a sought-after speaker at media & Internet events worldwide including the Monaco Media Forum, DigitalHollywood, LeWeb3, LIFT, AdTech, Plugg, X-Innovation, ERA, Netcamp... and a regular speaker in the Entrepreneurship classes at INSEAD.
His tongue-in-cheek blog http://sepulveda.net ranks among the top blogs in Europe.
In his spare time, Rodrigo is an avid genealogist. He can be reached at rodrigo@vpod.tv.
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Specialties:
Internet, Media, Mobility, Wireless, Strategy, Finance, Retail, Media, Entrepreneurship
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Experience
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Co-founder & CEO
vpod.tv
(Online Media industry)
September 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
vpod.tv is a hosted multimedia platform enabling corporations to create their own InternetTV channels on the web, mobile phones, IPTV boxes.
Recent customers include global brands such as L’Oréal, Danone, BNP Paribas, French Government, Fanta, Leroy-Merlin; media groups such as Radio Monte-Carlo, BFM, 20minutes.fr, France24 television, 01net.fr, Groupe Hersant; telcos such as SFR and large e-commerce sites such as Priceminister.
vpod.tv has been the recipient of numerous Innovation awards in Europe and the USA. In 2006, vpod.tv received a $5.1m series A from Innovacom, the investment arm affiliated with Orange.
Angel investors include serial entrepreneurs Martin Varsavsky (Fon), Loïc Le Meur (Seesmic) and Xavier Niel (Iliad/free.fr).
You can read more on our corporate site here:
http://corp.vpod.tv and on our blog: http://blog.vpod.tv. -
Blogger
sepulveda.net
(Internet industry)
March 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
My blog is regularly ranked among the top blogs in France and Europe.
In 2005, I was a top 500 on Feedster.
Rankings for France are skewed as I blog in English.
I now have moved more to micro-blogging on http://twitter.com/rodrigo1971. -
Co-founder & Managing Partner
RISC Partners
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
November 2002 — Present (5 years 9 months)
RISC Partners specializes in high-growth companies in the tech and media sectors.
It was founded by Ivan Communod & Rodrigo Sepulveda.
The company was heavily involved in a number of private transactions or turnaround situations. Some of the best known companies were glowria (France), and servidores.com (Spain). -
interim CEO
glowria.fr
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
January 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Glowria is the #1 on-line DVD rental service in France and #2 service in Germany. It also offers a VoD service.
Glowria pioneered a unique revenue-sharing business model with all major studios (Warner, Universal, Fox Pathé Europa, etc.) and partners (Carrefour, AOL, FranceLoisirs, etc.).
The company was sold to Netgem, a public company, in 2007.
Website: http://www.glowria.fr
After joining as CTO then COO in 2003, I left for AOL Europe in 2004. I was called back in December 2004, and took over the interim CEO role. My job was to streamline operations (catalog acquisition, sales & marketing, IT, logistics, customer care, site development, cost accounting) and prepare for a next round of financing. We completed a third round of financing of 4m€ (June 2005) to bring the company to profitability and launch our video-on-demand service.
At the same time, I was responsible for all our distribution channels (major portals, ISPs...) and marketing mix and signed 5 major deals. -
Business Developer & Strategist, Mobility
AOL Europe (a TimeWarner company)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
March 2004 — October 2004 (8 months)
Strategic advisor to the Strategic Alliances Group Telecoms at AOL Europe. In charge of European mobile business development for AOL Europe, as an interim contractor.
A 'RISC Partners' engagement. -
Director (Principal)
Gemini Consulting (now Capgemini)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAP; Management Consulting industry)
December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)
Joined the team as a Principal in the Strategy team (discipline). Co-founder of the 'B2B Marketplace Europe' team, targeting large industrial consortia. Our job was to build businesses from scratch, from strategy to financing, marketing and technology.
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Manager
KPMG Consulting (now BearingPoint)
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; KPMG; Accounting industry)
January 1996 — July 2000 (4 years 7 months)
Strategy & ICE (Information, Communication & Entertainment) practices.
Founder of the e-business practice (20 people), specializing in Internet strategy, mainly in the retail and the media sectors.
Some of the main projects I was involved with include :
- global security audits of L'Oréal websites around the world
- security audits of several banks of Groupe Banques Populaires
- building call-centers from scratch for ASSEDIC
- redesigning pan-European IT systems for Havas Media Communication outdoor billboards business
- pan-European launch of web presence of #1 European non-strategic mail-order company (18 countries) : Manutan.com and subsidiaries
- global launch of web presence and Intranet tools at the creation of OMD (Omnicom Group) -
Pre-Sales Consultant
Novell Europe
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — July 1995 (7 months)
Joined Novell as a network engineer and qualified professional (CNE-3, CNE-4) on the pre-sales team right after engineering school. Worked on large scale pan-european migration proposals, network usage audits, workflow pilots, etc. Seconded to Novell Europe by MGI, a French partner company.
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Consultant
Intel Europe
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
January 1994 — July 1994 (7 months)
While in engineering school, I was part of the team helping the pan-european roll-out (training) of Lotus Notes and office productivity tools at Intel Europe; I also implemented and trained Intel's distributors in Italy, Holland, etc. with their B2B 'extranet'.
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Education
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Wharton Business School, U. Penn.
MBA (exchange), Private Equity, Geopolitics, September 2002 — October 2002
Exchange program with INSEAD
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INSEAD
MBA, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Private Equity, 2001 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- Student Academic Representative; Rowing Team Captain
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IAE de Paris
DESS CAAE-MBA, Corporate Finance, September 2000
Part-time, evening course.
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EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
M. Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Operating Systems and Networks, 1991 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Rowing Team Captain
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Ecole Française de Bangkok
Additional Information
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Websites:
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Interests:
Media, Technology, Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and Europe
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Groups:
. Member - Advisory Board - EPITECH engineering school (www.epitech.net),
. Member - Advisory Board - geneanet.org (#1 genealogy portal in Europe),
Angel investor in :
. www.trigami.com
. www.amiando.com
. Regular lecturer in the Business Development class at INSEAD.
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INSEAD Alumni member -
Novell Alumni member -
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Gemini Consulting Alumni Network member -
French Web 2.0 member -
BearingPoint Alumni Group member
Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz’s Honors:
As CEO of vpod.tv:
. Top 12 companies to watch at Mobile World Congress (BusinessWeek), Barcelona, Spain.
. Winner, RedHerring 100 Europe, 2007, Cannes, France
. Finalist, RedHerring 100 Global, 2007, Seattle, USA
. Top 100 innovative young companies, L'Usine Nouvelle, February 2007, France
. Top 12 Connected Innovator, Supernova 2006, San Francisco, USA
. Top 100 Innovator, Innovate!Europe 2006, Zaragoza, Spain
. 2nd Place, Best consumer application, Global Mobile Monday Summit, Helsinki, Finland
. Winner, Best Demo, Capital-IT 2006, Paris, France
As COO of glowria:
. Winner, Best Growth Potential, Capital-IT 2003, Paris, France
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