VP Sales Operations & Business Development, Miyowa
Marseille Area, France
VP Sales Operations & Business Development, Miyowa
Marseille Area, France
Mobile advertising, Mobile Instant Messaging,
Viral Marketing (mobile & web), Mobile to web,
Contribute to organic growth of small companies in NTIC.
Product Management & positionning
Manage P&L recurring business.
Business Development
Mobile & CRM expertise
Communities & Mobile blog Product Development
Relations with Operators (Orange, Vodafone, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Telefonica, i-mode alliance...)
Partnerships with branded communities (MSN / WLM, AOL, Yahoo!...)
Vision & Strategy, Business Development, Communities, Mobile Blog, Mobile advertising, Business Models, Mobile 2.0
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)
Miyowa is the worldwide leader in Rich Mobile Messaging. Miyowa provides mobile operators and portals with a white-labelled, scalable range of Messaging content and services (IM, Social networking...). Since 2003, the company has developed a thorough expertise in federating mobile operators’ and portals’ communities.
Miyowa has created the best handset independent universal end-to-end client messaging technology, compliant with all major existing standards: MoveMessenger™.
With the official support of the major Instant Messaging brands, Miyowa allows operators’ customers to access their preferred messenger and multimedia content.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)
June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Business Development Director (report to CEO)
Responsible for market research and definition of the gambling strategy (primary mission) and new opportunities.
Networking in Mobile Gambling sector (contribution in mobile gambling conferences).
Selection and identification of companies for potential acquisition or partnerships, audit and recommendation to Top Management and board.
Definition of business models and value chain.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
July 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 3 months)
Management of a Profit Centre: 9 M,10 people in 2004.
Definition, creation, management and sales support of In-Fusios Players Community Management on ExEn
- Manage 7 ExEn European Operators game channels (Orange France, SFR, Vodafone Italy, Vodafone Germany, Orange UK, Telefonica, China Mobile).
- Set up, recruit and manage an efficient international team.
- Manage CRM actions (games launches, contests, mailings, promotion
).
- Set up reporting indicators dashboards (CLTV)
- 3 quantitative surveys
Definition, launch and follow up of In-Fusios i-mode service in Europe (Bouygues, Telefonica, e-Plus, KPN, Wind, Cosmote)
Launch and follow up of SFRs complete Java portal in 2003-2004 (games provisioning, wap catalogues, SMS mailings, reporting
)
Trade marketing operations with Operators (TV ads, press advertising, POS
).
Content development: negotiation of Star Academy licence (Endemol France) and mobile gambling follow up.
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
October 2000 — June 2001 (9 months)
Create, develop, manage new company positioning: the players community management.
Initiate new business models,
Write marketing Requirements to R&D Team and follow up as main customer
Follow up games production
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)
January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Mission: Management of existing products and launch of new games
Launch of 5 new scratch games (Monopoly, Star Wars, Tour du Monde, Millionnaire, Vegas), average launch budget 5m, including:
- Concept definition (design, market surveys, brainstorming
)
- Coordination of highly secure ticket printing
- Project management (promotion, legal, advertising, communication, sales
)
- Brief and coordination of Advertising agencies: 7 TV campaigns, 6 displays and 8 promotional campaigns achieved
Day-to-day management of existing range of products (management of 2 product managers).
In charge of new products business development.
Negociation of licences (Star Wars, XIII, Monopoly)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)
October 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 3 months)
French national lottery.
In charge of instants games.
MBA , Business school , September 1992 — June 1995
Specialitiy: Marketing B to C product