Sébastien Blanc

Current

Business Development Director at Yoolink

Past

Responsable Marketing Business d'exploration at Orange
Business Developer at Amaris SA
IT investment and sector analyst at XAnge Private Equity

Founder at Koalis Software

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Education

Ecole de Management de Lyon
Wake Forest University - Babcock Graduate School of Management
Technische Universität Berlin

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sébastien Blanc’s Summary

- Business developer with a strong international background focusing on innovative IT companies and project carriers that want to develop operations and sales in western countries.
- Education and professional background both focus on IT start ups core matters : finance, management, and technology
- Strong taste for entrepreneurship and young ventures and for technologies
- Independant business advisor for several young IT start ups and projects

Sébastien Blanc’s Specialties:

Business specialities : financing innovative ventures, developing business, and packaging innovations into customer-oriented offers.
Industry specialities : ASP, web services, Open source, telecommunication

Sébastien Blanc’s Experience

Business Development Director

Yoolink

(Information Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsable Marketing Business d'exploration

Orange

(Telecommunications industry)

July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year)

- Draft of the Business plans for innovative projects of Orange Labs with a special focus on go-to-market strategy and quality of service.
Business Developer

Amaris SA

(Information Services industry)

August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)

- Migration of the business model from a traditional licensing model to an hosted ASP model. Setting up of a new go-to-market policy that lower the COGS. Setting up of a pricing strategy focusing on global and turnkey solutions’ leasing.
- Setting up of a new QoS and Customer care process.
- Coordination of the marketing and communication operations.
IT investment and sector analyst

XAnge Private Equity

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)

- Paris: sector analyst in IT (Open source, web services, etc.) and investment analyst : strategic analysis of business models, due diligences and process management. Two signed deals in Europe (France and UK).
- Paris: Analysis of a transatlantic merger and an IPO on a British stockmarket. Drafting of the placement memorandum, process management, setting up of the financial and legal operation
- Berlin / Munich: Benchmarking of the German venture capital and seed capital market, analysis of potential synergies with local funds and co-investment proposals.
Founder

Koalis Software

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)

- Founder and co-director of Koalis Software, an IT company based in Berlin
- Core business : developing and adapting CMS solutions for SMB
- Customers in France, Germany, Netherlands (Saint Gobain) and Belgium
- Profitable from the begining

Sébastien Blanc’s Education

Ecole de Management de Lyon

Master in Business , Entrepreneurship, Finance , 2002 — 2007

Education focused on innovative entrepreneurship ant its core matters : developing Business, financing ventures, packaging an invention into a customer-oriented product, and working in team with developers.
Wake Forest University - Babcock Graduate School of Management

MBA , Entrepreneurship in IT , 2006 — 2006

Exchange student from EMLyon before Master graduation (6 months)
Technische Universität Berlin

2003 — 2003

Exchange student from EMLyon before Bachelor graduation (6 months)