Emeric Ernoult

Current

Founder and Business Developer at affinitiz

Past

Business development Manager at Ceramconcept
Co-founder and CFO at JLMD Ecologic Group
Business Lawyer at Winston & Strawn

In House Lawyer at French Embassy in Wahington DC
Lawyer at French Embassy (Washington, DC)

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Education

Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)
La Sorbonne
Université du Droit et de la Santé (Lille II)

Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

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Emeric Ernoult’s Summary

As an ex-business lawyer and a serial start-up founder, I find excitment in dealing with problems and find the right solution to move forward and succeed!

Whatever I do, I try to do it right and love it (well, don't be fooled, it is not easy every day ;-)!

Affinitiz provides any web site / media / brand the opportunity to own and operate their own social platform to increase visibility on the web, customers' loyalty and brand recognition.

Emeric Ernoult’s Specialties:

Online collaboration tool developement. Web communities behaviors. social interaction online. Maketing web tools as a new way to work, collaborate and communicate online. Starting up high tech companies. white label social networks / blogs / communities.

Emeric Ernoult’s Experience

Founder and Business Developer

affinitiz

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

July 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

With my partner Benoît Hediard, I founded affinitiz with the goal of creating a simple and user friendly tool for everyone to collaborate online. egroups (now Yahoo groups) and ecircles were our American "models" but I think we did a better product on pure user experience point of view. Judge by yourself at www.affinitiz.com ;-)

We are positionned at the heart of the web 2.0 at the crossroad of web publishing (blogs) and social networks (communities). Ning is our counterpart in the US.

We are also evangelising French companies for them to implement web 2.0 tools in their organization to leverage on their "human capital".
Business development Manager

Ceramconcept

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

June 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 8 months)

In charge of starting up the operations of the company in 2005 and accelerate international development. Took the company from €800.000 of turnover in 2005 to €4.800.000 in 2007. In charge of the series A funding for FDA approval in the US.
Co-founder and CFO

JLMD Ecologic Group

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

January 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 7 months)

CFO and General counsel. Opening of the Paris office. Managed the second round of financing. Prepared the IPO on the Paris Stock Exchange (Alternext)
Business Lawyer

Winston & Strawn

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

January 1998 — November 2004 (6 years 11 months)

Associate in the corporate law department of the DC and the Paris office of the firm. Specialized in mergers & acquisitions, finance, company reorganization, bankruptcy.
In House Lawyer

French Embassy in Wahington DC

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; International Affairs industry)

January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Legal assistance to French businesses willing to step in the US market.
Lawyer

French Embassy (Washington, DC)

(Internet industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year)

Emeric Ernoult’s Education

Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

DESS , International Business Law , 1995 — 1996
La Sorbonne

DEA , English and American Business Law , June 1995
Université du Droit et de la Santé (Lille II)

Maitrise , Droit , 1994
Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

DEUG , Droit , 1992