Yann Lechelle

Current

Co-founder at Appsfire.com
Entrepreneur In Residence at INSEAD
Co-founder at KickYourApp

Owner at Sens Digital S.A.S.

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Past

Founder & Chief Architect at ETHERYL
Founder & CEO at ETHERYL
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at American University of Paris

Director of Software Development at Global Crossing
Partner at SPNC
Principal Software Engineer at Dreamworks Animation
Principal Software Engineer at Cambridge Animation Systems
Software Engineer at Effix
Sofware Developer at Freelance Software Development

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Education

INSEAD
American University of Paris

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Yann Lechelle’s Summary

My goal is to bring innovative technological solutions to the marketplace, with a focus on software but not excluding hardware, at an executive level, in any industry.

Deep software experience in the following fields: Financial Trading, Visualization Techniques, Social Networking, Digital Asset Workflows, Academic Admissions, iPhone SDK. Strong affinities with: Consumer electronics, Mobility/Wireless, Augmented Reality, Articifial Intelligence (Neural Nets).

Random keywords: iPhone SDK, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Multi-platform Software Developement, serious power-user of day-to-day convergent technologies, RAD, Reader-Extended PDF Workflow, Online Community Platforms for Professional Networks and Academic Institutions, Software for Admissions Offices and Alumni Associations, Social Network Management (closed community specifically), Network Centric Management...

Yann Lechelle’s Specialties:

Low burn rate management (1 successful startup bootstrapping), business development, M&A negotiations (2 successful exits), software & server architecture, conceptualization, software prototyping & development...

Yann Lechelle’s Experience

Co-founder

Appsfire.com

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

the viral apps distribution service for iPhone platforms and others to come
Entrepreneur In Residence

INSEAD

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Co-founder

KickYourApp

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

KickYourApp: mobile marketing through "apps". We take your brand and bring it to the iPhone: creative consulting, graphic & user flow design, touch & gesture based interaction, web service integration... Our service spans the entire process, from idea generation to AppStore publication.
Owner

Sens Digital S.A.S.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Sens Digital is building a pool of Cocoa SDK premium expertise: architects & coders, senior marketers, graphic & hid designers. Feel free to contact me first hand for any iPhone or Mac OS X related project.
Founder & Chief Architect

ETHERYL

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Since the M&A transaction, my role has been to help maintain, improve and transition our suite of products from academia-only to a general purpose "closed community & network centric management" platform, to address our 3 core markets: academia, professional associations & corporations.
Founder & CEO

ETHERYL

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2001 — June 2007 (6 years )

ETHERYL (www.etheryl.com), a lifestyle venture boostrapped out of a personal need-based idea, was grown from a prototype piece of code, to a recognized and internationally used B2B online community management solution, and used by business schools such as INSEAD, Manchester Business School, HEC Paris, Oxford, as well as professional entities such as Manpower, Alstom, Procter & Gamble Alumni of France, European Professional Women's Network and many others.

My approach to business development (expanding along the customer life-cycle most notably) lead the INSEAD Entrepreneurship Department to write a case study on ETHERYL.

A group of private investors eventually acquired a majority stake of the debt-free, cash-flow-positive & profit-making entity in June 2007.
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

American University of Paris

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

The computer science & business department needed temporary help to restaff. This was an opportunity to create a hybrid course from scratch and teach 3 classes per week during Fall 2003. The course focused on educating future information knowledge workers on the combinatorial possibilities of productivity tools (software/hardware/networking, MSOffice and cross-application document linking).
Director of Software Development

Global Crossing

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — July 2000 (6 months)

Facilitated integration of our dev team & corresponding software assets (see company below). Successfully transferred working knowledge to colleagues, subordinates and new recruits. Drove continuous improvement and production of legacy market data software.
Conducted R&D on Digital Signatures, XML streaming protocols, and secure instant messaging. Left to undertake an MBA @ INSEAD.
Partner

SPNC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 2 months)

Provided software and consulting services to New York’s top 15 banks (trading rooms). Sustained strategic redistribution relationship with Reuters Canada while competing against Reuters US! Led management and development efforts on cutting edge financial market data and Internet software. Handled all aspects of SPNC’s Internet presence (web site and email communication system). Designed complete visual corporate identity.

Contributed to the sale of SPNC to IXNet/GlobalCrossing, as partner and key holder of IP and know-how, up to final negotiations.
Principal Software Engineer

Dreamworks Animation

(Public Company; DWA; Animation industry)

1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

On a mission for Cambridge Animation System (Cambridge UK) to Dreamworks SKG and Warner Bros. in Los Angeles - integrating digital asset management platforms.
Principal Software Engineer

Cambridge Animation Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Designed the first version of a generic Asset Management system + API to help integrate the Animo Animation Software suite with client's own Asset Repositories (Dreamworks & Warner Brothers namely).
Software Engineer

Effix

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1993 — October 1995 (2 years 3 months)

Effix Systèmes is now a part of the Reuters company.

As lead graphical user interface designer, I defined the foundation of what is today known as Reuters 3000 (or Kobra, or X-Tra [...]) , a front-office technology platform for traders that has generated over a billion dollar of sales (software and service) since.

My claim to fame here is to have "borrowed" the object-oriented and visual programming nature of Interface Builder on NeXTstep (ancestor of Xcode on Mac OS X) and turn Kobra into a first of its kind on the trading floor.
Sofware Developer

Freelance Software Development

(Computer Software industry)

January 1987 — August 1989 (2 years 8 months)

Co-developed an online community platform (at the time called a BBS or Bulletin Board System!) as well as a script compiler running on Atari ST. Cash poor, we used the subsidized French Minitel as server modem using a pretty cool hack! We eventually sold hundreds of licences of "Halley & Ellipse"...

Yann Lechelle’s Education

INSEAD

MBA , General Management, Entrepreneurship , 2000 — 2001

If you don't know about INSEAD (top-10 business school worldwide), learn some there: http://www.insead.edu/discover_insead/who_we_are/index.cfm

Activities and Societies:

President of New Economy Club, Webmastering of BdE activities, Organizer of the annual E-Forum
American University of Paris

Bachelor , Computer Science , 1990 — 1993

Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Senior seminar on NeuralNets (Sound & Shape recognition)

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Yann Lechelle’s Interests:

Social networks (at the algorithmic and human level!), consumer-level technology early adoption, basketball, squash, classical music & jazz (sax & piano)