GfK SE Executive Board Member from 1999 to 2010, and COO of the “Retail and Technology” Business Unit.

Doctor in Management Science.

Founder of internet companies

Founder of creatome.com, and ateliermagique.com

Previously strategic project manager for the Oxylane group

Graduate from Centrale Marseille Engineering School

Previously Comasec Managing Director, Mckinsey Engagement Manager, and Vice-President of Worldwide Professional Services at SLP Infoware/Gemplus.

Holds a degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in France, an MS in Electronic Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of California in Los Angeles, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Managing Director of NTT Europe Ltd.

With NTT since 1984, has in turn been in charge of launching NTT OCN (NTT's internet access service), International Partnerships Manager at Verio Inc. in the USA, and President and CEO of NTT Com Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Holds a Bachelor of Science from Hokkaido University in Sapporo,Japan.

Vice-president of the European Mortgage Federation, Director of the French Association of Specialised Finance Companies (ASF- Association Française des Sociétés Financières).

Previously a cabinet minister, Communications Director for the Havas Group, Managing Director of the Arcade Group, President of sociétés anonymes d’HLM (French council housing organisation).

Holds a degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, a Master of Advanced Studies in Business Law, and is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (French decoration).