Stéfane Fermigier

Current

President of the Free / Open Source Software Working Group at System@tic Competitiveness Cluster
Founder and Chairman at Nuxeo

Past

Co-counder and steering commitee member of the Open Source / Free Software working group at System@tic Competitiveness Cluster
Co-founder and President at AFUL

Education

Paris 7 University
Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris
Ecole normale supérieure

Lycée Louis Le Grand

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Stéfane Fermigier’s Summary

I'm an entrepreneur in the IT industry.

My current expertise lies in open source development and business models, and in the enterprise content management (ECM) application domain.

I believe that to succeed as a software vendor, you must be "business oriented" as well as "technology oriented", and build a community and an ecosystem around your products.

Stéfane Fermigier’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurship, high-tech strategy and marketing, enterprise software, software development, software architecture, SOA, ECM, semantic web, software development methodology, agile methodologies, research program management, open source community.

Stéfane Fermigier’s Experience

President of the Free / Open Source Software Working Group

System@tic Competitiveness Cluster

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Founder and Chairman

Nuxeo

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

About Nuxeo:

Nuxeo is the pioneer and leader of open source enterprise content management (also known as ECM). Our software is used by large companies throughout the world to manage all kinds of documents and digital contents.

About my job at Nuxeo:

As the founder of the company, I've been involved with, and at some point, fully in charge of, every side of the business: strategy, marketing, technology, sales, production, human resources, finance:

- Coming up with (and later, improving) the vision for the technology and business model
- Evangelizing this vision to create a community and an ecosystem
- Managing online marketing and lead generation
- Selling to our first customers
- Recruiting top-notch employees able to share our vision and execute our strategy
- Ensuring productive development and business environment and processes are in place
- Managing budget and cash flow, including seeking financing our research and development
- Setting up foreign subsidiaries
Co-counder and steering commitee member of the Open Source / Free Software working group

System@tic Competitiveness Cluster

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Co-founder and President

AFUL

(Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)

March 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 9 months)

Stéfane Fermigier’s Education

Paris 7 University

PhD , Mathematics , September 1990 — October 1994
Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris

Mathematics, computer science September 1988 — August 1992
Ecole normale supérieure

PhD , Mathematics , 1988 — 1992
Lycée Louis Le Grand