Stéphane Delbecque

Current

COO and Co-Founder at Footbalistic
Mobile Product Manager at Six Apart

Past

Contributing editor at Ubergizmo
Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager France at Yahoo!
Community Product Manager at Avedya

Senior Project Manager at AOL France

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Education

Advancia (ex- ECCIP: Ecole commerciale de la Chambre de Commerce et d'industrie de Paris)
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

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Stéphane Delbecque’s Summary

Expertise in Mobile, Communities, Internet and Media areas.

International product/project management:
- Mobile services (SMS, WAP, i-mode, MMS, mobile clients, games, logos, ringtones).
- Communication tools (Mail and Instant Messenging).
- Multi-modal communities (blog, chat, etc.).
- Premium Services (application development, partner integration, customer services training).

BizDev:
- Mobile service providers.
- Mobile carriers deals (MVNOs and MNOs).
- Third parties.

Interested in:
- E-business.
- Mobile.
- Web 2.0.
- Communities.
- Crowdsourcing.

Stéphane Delbecque’s Specialties:

Mobile products/contents/services, online communities, premium services, international product/project management.

Stéphane Delbecque’s Experience

COO and Co-Founder

Footbalistic

(Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Football, also known as soccer in the US, is by far the #1 sport in the world.

To feed this global appetite for everything football, Footbalistic strives to offer the most comprehensive online database about each and every football game, team, league, competition and player in the world, from the origins of this sport to today.

Footbalistic will also offer tools for football fans and betters to cultivate their passion, develop their knowledge and forecast results.

Ultimately, for football professionals, Footbalistic will be a platform where they can network with each other and find detailed analytics helping them to perform their jobs better.
Mobile Product Manager

Six Apart

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

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Establish Six Apart as the leader in the Mobile blogging world with Vox, TypePad, Movable Type and Blog It, in both the US, Europe and Japan.

- Determine and drive Six Apart's Mobile strategy and roadmap.
- Constantly analyze competitive landscape.
- Define Product specification.
- Coordinate Marketing, PR, Legal, Product and Engineering efforts.
- Handle Business relationships with mobile carriers, handset manufacturers and third parties.
- Be the Mobile voice.
Contributing editor

Ubergizmo

(Internet industry)

January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)

Covered the GSMA Mobile World Congress 09 (in Barcelona) and EComm09 (Silicon Valley) for Ubergizmo.com
Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager France

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Being Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager means having the responsability for everything related to Mobile in France. The sentences below explain what my business week looks like:
- Be the single point of contact both for french and european teams.
- Determine local strategy (in touch with the global and european teams) and select best partners.
- Manage the Yahoo! Mobile web site (integration, promotion, marketing, customer care, legal, providers, etc.).
- Increase the Mobile Internet (WAP) offer and audience.
- Create new SMS and MMS services.
- Lead the discussions with mobile operators, MVNOs, retailers and OEMs.
- Evangelize the product/marketing/sales teams.
- Coordinate local activities for Yahoo! Go, Yahoo! Ready and FIFA Mobile.
- Develop a mobile client offer (Yahoo! Messenger on i-mode).
- Answer to journalists and participate to mobile events/conferences.
Community Product Manager

Avedya

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Project/product manager in charge of multi-modal (web and mobile) products dealing with community (blog, chat, etc.).
- Orange Blog (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS),
- Orange Zapzone, teen community (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS),
- NRJ Blog (Web and i-mode),
- EU program against cigarette (Web).
Senior Project Manager

AOL France

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

July 2000 — May 2004 (3 years 11 months)

Project Manager on various local and global products/services:
- AOL Mobile on WAP, first non-operator portal in 2000,
- AOL Mail on i-mode in Nov 2001,
- AOL Premium Services billing system, an integrated payment methode allowing users to be billed on their AOL's bill,
- 20 partners plugged to AOL Premium Services,
- PC2SMS (from the AOL client to the mobile) and AIM2SMS (from AIM to the mobile, with the way back) services, based on AOL Premium Services.

Stéphane Delbecque’s Education

Advancia (ex- ECCIP: Ecole commerciale de la Chambre de Commerce et d'industrie de Paris)

MS/MSc - MA equivalent , Economics, Management, Information System Management , 1994 — 1997
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

Physics 1993 — 1994

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Stéphane Delbecque’s Interests:

Web 2.0, gadgets, videogames (PC, DS, PSP, PS2...), football (soccer in US), music, geek stuff, networking, food (french, thai and italian), technology, books (Tolkien, Herbert, Gaiman, Eddings), debates, personal improvement.