Antoine Vialle

Current

Incubation PRAESTO at IncubAlliance
Strategic Partnerships for IT division at CEA

Past

Head of International Business Development at France Telecom R&D
CEO and co-founder at Oxygene Research

Education

Collège des ingénieurs (www.cdi.fr)
Ecole des Mines de Paris

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Connections

374 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Antoine Vialle’s Summary

Current : defining and implementing telecommunication strategy of an applied research laboratory. Defining a roadmap, and finding industrial partners to fund it.

Entrepreneur, high-tech addict, good experience of negotiation in asian countries (China, South Korea), telecommunications, multimedia.

Blog (french) on http://www.techtonic.org

Antoine Vialle’s Specialties:

Launching of new ventures, negotiation of high-tech projects with private companies, R&D international collaboration.

Antoine Vialle’s Experience

Incubation PRAESTO

IncubAlliance

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
Strategic Partnerships for IT division

CEA

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

CEA LIST : Research institute in Paris comprising 18 labs and 350 researchers, working on software intensive systems.

Negotiation and follow-up of key international projects
Business development with international industrial partners
Coordination of the answers to European Commission calls for proposals
Academic partnerships with European labs
Head of International Business Development

France Telecom R&D

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — March 2003 (1 year )

SVA/PIC : Laboratory developing telecom services on voice and data (60 people).
Member of the executive board of the laboratory, responsible for the development of the international sales and marketing activities of the laboratory

Analysis of technologies suited to the needs of international partners. Packaging. Definition of strategic orientation of the product range.
Business-Development with subsidiaries (packaging, presentations, seminars, contract negotiation…). Follow-up of the projects after the signature.
Business Development outside France Telecom.
Example of new clients : TPSA (Poland), Orange.
CEO and co-founder

Oxygene Research

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2002 (4 years )

Innovative company selling image processing technology. Was awarded one of the first 5 prizes out of 2000 applicants by French ministry of research. 12 people, 0.5 million euros of funds raised, industrial partnerships, Strong research partnership with French research lab CAOR.
Sold to Apple Computer (end 2001)

Co-founded the company (legal aspects, IPR, capitalisation).
Participated in the development of underlying technology.
Defined the products and services and strategic technical and marketing orientations.
Wrote Business-Plan, financed through venture capital and public funds (0.5 million euros).
Communicated to the media (about 30 articles, TV and radio interviews : http://www.oxygene-research.info).
Managed all aspects of business operations, including finance, business development and customers relations.
Recruited and managed a staff of 12.
Negotiated the sale of the company.
Clients and partners include Eutelsat, Kodak, Thomson, Apple Computer…

Antoine Vialle’s Education

Collège des ingénieurs (www.cdi.fr)

MBA , Master in Business Administration , September 1998 — September 1999
Ecole des Mines de Paris

Engineer , Industrial Engineering & Management , September 1995 — September 1998

Activities and Societies:

Robotics, Virtual Reality