Yves Heuillard

Current

• Founder at DDmagazine
• Publishing and new media consultant at Multimedia Business Dev. (Self-employed)

Past

• Managing director at Ziff Davis France
• Editorial director at Excelsior
• Editor in chief at SVM

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Industry

Publishing

Yves Heuillard’s Summary

20 years experience as VP Editorial, Managing Director, new medias/ecommerce consultant and business partner.

Yves has served as publishing and business development consultant to companies like Hachette, Bertelsmann, VNU, Telérama, France Télécom, Internet.com, Bfinance.com...

Yves established Ziff-Davis in France, launched and directed the leading PCExpert and PCdirect magazines until 1995. Prior to join Ziff-Davis Yves was the original editor-in-chief of SVM, still the N°1 french computing magazine since it’s creation, then editorial VP of the SVM publications.

Also co-founded the Online Trade show in 1995. OnLine is top of Internet trade fairs since its first year. Yves is the author of best selling book "Je me mets à l'ordinateur et à l'Internet" dedicated to seniors who want to start using computers and Internet.

Yves Heuillard’s Specialties:

Magazines (and media sites) launch, positionning or repositionning. Interim management. Media Business development and marketing : subscriptions, newstand, ad sales. Editorial and design improvement. Recruitment : MD, publishers ,editors, etc...Licensing and partnerships negociation.

Yves Heuillard’s Experience

• Founder

  DDmagazine

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  DDmagazine http://www.ddmagazine.com is an editorial and community website dedicated to sutainable development. It's all about getting informed of the last technologies, products, ideas, friends that can help you doing something practical to reduce global warming.

• Publishing and new media consultant

  Multimedia Business Dev. (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 1995 — Present (13 years 4 months)

  Consulting missions include interim management, Internet and print business development, positioning, relaunch, reorganization, new products definition and launch, market research, licensing, conferences and events organization (Some clients: Bertlesmann-France Loisirs, Groupe Lagardère, VNU, Bfinance, Internet.com, Télérama)

• Managing director

  Ziff Davis France

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 1991 — February 1995 (3 years 9 months)

  Created and led the French subsidiary of Ziff-Davis. Responsibilities included strategic positioning and budget planning, editorial conceptualization, ad sales marketing and design, newstands/subcription circulation development for ZD’s French publications, PC Expert and PC Direct. Established Ziff-Davis as a leading player in IT press in France.

• Editorial director

  Excelsior

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  December 1983 — June 1991 (7 years 7 months)

  Launched and directed two computer magazines, SVM, and SVM Macintosh. Based on unbeatable editorial quality and technical credibility SVM rapidly became n°1 among computer magazines (a position it has maintained until now).

• Editor in chief

  SVM

  (Publishing industry)

  1983 — 1991 (8 years)