Yves Simon

Current

Director of Sales at XWiki
Directeur Associé at Social Computing

Past

Partnership and Sales development Coordinator at Hemisphere Intelligence Informatique / ITS Group
Président - P.D.G. at Amoweba SAS - Voyez Vous SA
Central Africa Director at Ouest Catering (Sodexo)

Various experiences at Catering & Hotel industry

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Education

ESSEC - ESSEC Business School
Essec Business School Paris

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Yves Simon’s Summary

Proficient in English and french, dynamic and openminded, used to work in transitional highly complex and multicultural environments, heavily passionate with human relations and information technologies

Yves Simon’s Specialties:

strategy, general management, sales, negociation, technology positioning, marketing & communication, human relations, finance management, innovation

Yves Simon’s Experience

Director of Sales

XWiki

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Xwiki is a software service company supporting an Open-Source enterprise wiki platform that offer a set of vertical applications. Have a look at the web site for more and download the package !
Directeur Associé

Social Computing

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Social Computing is a company distributing & promoting information access tools that helps understand the complexity of datas and pinpoint proximity between them, then capture collective intelligence.

Social Computing currently distribute Information Access Velocity platform from Vivisimo on the french market.

Social Computing further sell WPS (Web Positioning System) a Dynamic Mapping sofware that improve BI, e-commerce, news & financial analysis user experience by providing clear and fast information that would lead hours of work to organize.

For more information, please contact me directly
Partnership and Sales development Coordinator

Hemisphere Intelligence Informatique / ITS Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Fast Search&Transfer partnership and sales development coordinator (Fast is a Norwegian company ww leader in the professional Search Engine market).
Also act as senior consultant at strategic level and project director for clients as AFP, CNCE, BNPP-BDDF, PagesJaunes in the Information Access, CMS, BPM fields
Président - P.D.G.

Amoweba SAS - Voyez Vous SA

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )

Amoweba SAS, Voyez Vous SA & Novadis Services Sarl were 3 companies I managed during that time.
Up to 24 staff including 12 cognitive doctors, 4 million euros investment over 4 years to support human-links decentralized, P2P, search engine including collaborative intelligence features & wps mapping technology.
Central Africa Director

Ouest Catering (Sodexo)

(Hospitality industry)

January 1997 — July 2000 (3 years 7 months)

Positions: Central Africa Director, Africa Deputy Director, Algeria Management Controller

Business development including contract negotiations and deal closing with clients like Anadarko, Exxon Mobil, BHP, Halliburton …

Country openings from scratch (Angola, Equatorial Guinea) including institutional partnerships, local recruitment & training, juridical settings, market studies for the Central Africa area (economic, social, project detection in the petroleum sector, financial, juridical…)
Various experiences

Catering & Hotel industry

(Hospitality industry)

January 1985 — December 1996 (12 years )

Last accomplishment 1994/1996: Accor Group, Formule 1 / Etap Hotel, Very economical chain of hotels, France CEO attaché, acting at Regional Director level. In charge of a 840 rooms property’s market researches, business developments, information system, organization and pre opening forecasts

Previously acted in all hotel departments as General Manager Attaché, Internal Controller, Food & Beverages Manager, Purchasing department, Head Waiter, Waiter, Chef de rang, Barman, Wine Waiter, Room Service, Cook, Fast Food, Stewarding, Banqueting, Concierge, Front & Back office, Housekeeping

Yves Simon’s Education

ESSEC - ESSEC Business School

MBA , Services International Management , 1994 — 1996

I.M.H.I. (Institut de Management Hôtelier International): Accredited MBA Program specialized in International Services Management Industry jointly administered by Cornell Hotel School and ESSEC Group. IMHI students are coming from all over the world and each promo includes between 15 to 25 different nationalities amongst 50 students

Activities and Societies:

Alumni society president from 2000 til 2004, Innovation Trophy winner I.M.H.I. / L’Hôtellerie ’96, Essec apprenticeship & Bretons associations founder
Essec Business School Paris

MBA , IMHI International Services Management , 1994 — 1996

Additional Information

Yves Simon’s Websites:

My Blog

Yves Simon’s Interests:

Information access, social media, social computing, collective intelligence, dynamic mapping tools, distributed search, P2P, social networks, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0, semantic web, enterprise search, vivisimo, carantec, britanny, social search, collective intelligence