Sébastien Blanc

Current

Business Development Director at Yoolink

Past

Marketing Business Manager at Orange
Business Developer at Amaris SA
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 6 months)
Marketing Business Manager

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.
Analyst

XAnge Private Equity

(Privately Held; 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)