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About SiliconFrench
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SiliconFrench 2006 Committee Members
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SiliconFrench 2006 Committee
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The committee is composed of top executives of the
Silicon Valley who bring their wealth of experiences to develop the
French-speaking and the Francophone community. The committee is
responsible for strategy, decision-making and ultimately the success of
InterFrench Silicon Valley.
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| Andre Haddad |
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VP
International Operations
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eBay Inc. |
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| Date of Event: June 22, 2006 |
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Title: Key principles of successful web design |
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| Frederic
Dumas |
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Regional Sales Director
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Genesys |
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Date of Event: May 25, 2006 |
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Event Title:
Best Entrepreneurs Gala |
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| Jean Pommier |
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VP WW Professional Services
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Ilog |
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Date of Event: November 9, 2006 |
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Event Title:
Quality of Life in Silicon Valley. |
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Khai-Minh Pham |
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CEO
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Easyplanet |
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Date of Event: February 23rd, 2006 |
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Event Title:
The New Digital Consumer Generation: User 2.0 |
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Ale Gicqueau
Founder & CEO US
InterFrench/SiliconFrench,
L'Executive Club
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Ale is the founder of
L'Executive Club, co-founder
of InterFrench, and he is now
leading the overall Interfrench organization in the US since his
partner, Pierre-Jean Charra, left for France to create Interfrench in
Europe.
He has held different positions in the software
industry, working successively in software development, engineering
management and business development roles. He is today a recognized
evangelist in XML/RDB, and his efforts to develop an effective
networking business platform for French-speaking professionals, has lead
to the creation and development of SiliconFrench and L'Executive Club.
Ale Gicqueau holds an engineering degree from École centrale Paris and a
master of science from UC Davis.
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Andre
Haddad
VP
International Operations
eBay Inc.
support@interfrench.org |
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Andre Haddad is the
vice president of user experience and design for eBay. Previously, he
worked as eBay's managing director for France, Italy, Spain, the
Netherlands, and Belgium.
At GEL, he talked
about eBay's true origin, the service's scope and scale, and what
influences the eBay experience.
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Angelika Blendstrup
Co-President
InterFrench/SiliconFrench
angelika@interfrench.org |
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Angelika is a business communications consultant who helps foreign-born
executives with problems understanding the complexities of American
business culture and the English language to communicate effectively.
In particular, she helps them improve their written and oral
communication skills, and prepares them for media interviews and works
on reducing their accents. Her clients include Fujitsu, A&D, DreamWorks/PDI,
Tibco, Roche, and Sun MicroSystems. Angelika has traveled extensively
throughout Europe and Latin America and speaks Spanish and Portuguese,
as well as French and German.
Angelika Blendstrup holds a PhD in bilingual, bicultural education from
Stanford University, a masters in comparative literature from UC
Berkeley and a BA in foreign languages and educational psychology from
the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Catherine Lucas
Vice
President
ALZA
support@interfrench.org |
"Catherine Lucas is a seasoned executive with 24 years of experience in
the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry. She has a PhD in
Neurochemistry form the University of Sciences in Paris, and a Post-Doc
from Stanford University.
She started her industrial career at Genentech, where she worked for 8
years as a scientist in immunochemistry. She then worked at Cell Genesys
as a Director for 2 years, prior to the formation of Abgenix based on
the Xenomouse that makes fully human antibodies.
Since 1995, Catherine has been working at ALZA Corporation in drug
delivery, first as a Director in Analytical Sciences, then as a Vice
President in R&D. ALZA was acquired in 2001 by Johnson & Johnson, and
under this new umbrella Catherine heads a large group performing novel
research and development projects for the company."
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Eric
Buatois
Managing Director
Sofinnova Ventures
support@interfrench.org |
Prior to joining Sofinnova Ventures in
2001 to focus on the telecommunications sector, Eric had 18 years of
experience in the communications industry.
He had a 14-year tenure with Hewlett-Packard, where he had business
management, profit and loss, and global strategic responsibilities
through leadership roles based in Europe and the United States. He
joined H-P's French operations in 1987 to lead product strategy for the
company's Telecom Systems business unit, which encompassed global
divisions. In 1994, Eric relocated to Sweden, where he served as Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of Ericsson Hewlett-Packard
Telecommunication AB, a $200 million global joint venture specializing
in network management systems and billing systems for service providers.
He also served on the Board of EHPT. In 1998, Eric moved to H-P's U.S.
headquarters, where he became General Manager of H-P's $340 million
Communication Solution business unit.
He began his career with Texas Instruments in 1983, rising to European
Product Manager for the Digital Signal Processor line. Concentrating on
DSP applied to wireless, Eric defined and guided the product line's
introduction into the European market, and negotiated key OEM agreements
with top European telecom equipment vendors. His efforts led to the
successful Europe-wide deployment of TI's DSP line.
Eric received his M.S. in Computer Science and Communications
Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
(France).
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Francois DUBRULLE
President & CEO
Open Vision Technology
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| He started his career in large international
corporations in the field of high technologies, mainly in the world of
telecommunications and complex technologies resulting from space
activities.
He then leans towards value creation in early-stage
technological firms. He founds Quaestus Ventures in 2002, an investment
firm in US listed tech companies before creating Open Vision Technology
in 2004.
The customers of Open Vision Technology are
prestigious, amongst the big players in Aerospace & defence business,
but also small but promising start-up companies within the IT & software
business.
François Dubrulle belongs to a professional network
in technology management, Mentonet, operating between San Francisco and
Paris. With Open Vision Technology, he is member of the IE-Club, a
non-profit organization based in Paris and gathering influential key
people from finance and technology entrepreneurship.
Francois Dubrulle is graduated engineer of French
“Grande Ecole”, also holds an MSc and an MBA. Francois also teaches
risks strategy and decision analysis. He is very active in several
think-tanks making the promotion of progress by the economic development
and free trade.
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Francois
Koutchouk
President & CEO
Atlantic Decisions, Inc.
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François Koutchouk is a technology leader
in business planning and strategic expansion, responsible for building a
portfolio of reports on mission-critical commercial system projects for
Fortune 500, companies, including high visibility projects such as the
Citibank worldwide home banking system and the IBM intellectual property
system.
With a technical and business background in networked artificial
intelligence and robotics, he joined Lotus as one of the first six Lotus
Notes engineers from 1989 to 1994.
Following his tenure at Lotus, François Koutchouk worked for Steve Jobs
on object-based groupware technology and founded Atlantic Decisions,
Inc.
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Frederic Dumas
Regional Sales Director
Genesys
support@interfrench.org |
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Ghazi
Benothman
General
Partner
Minah Ventures
support@interfrench.org |
Ghazi began his
career in the early '90s at Motorola, working in marketing and business
development in the RISC microprocessor division. During that time, he
worked with emerging new companies in the MacOS and Windows NT spaces.
Ghazi then joined
Dell Computer where he worked on market strategy for servers,
workstations and storage in the office of the CTO. Ghazi then joined
Deutsche Banc Alex Brown as a junior Equity Research analyst, covering
stocks of systems, storage and Linux companies.
He participated in
the IPOs of McData, VA Linux and other emerging technology companies.
Most recently, Ghazi was with Crosslink Capital, the old private equity
arm of Robertson Stephens. There, he spent the last four years working
as part of the core technologies team, making new investments in
Semiconductors and Hardware Systems.
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Guy de Meester
CIO
Roxio
support@interfrench.org |
| Guy de Meester, director of global
information services at Roxio.
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Hubert
Catanese
Vice
President
Business Objects
support@interfrench.org |
Hubert Catanese, is a seasoned executive bringing
more than 19 years of international experience in Sales and Marketing.
Before joining Meiosys, Hubert was VP of Worldwide Sales and Business
Development for WhitePJ, Inc. a Silicon Valley startup providing CRM
solutions on the ASP model, where Hubert was instrumental in defining
and executing the business strategy, building a worldwide sales force
and driving revenue.
Prior to White PJ, Hubert spent 15 years at Sun
Microsystems where he held several sales and marketing positions
including Director of Sales and Marketing at Sun Microsystems France and
Senior Director Marketing and Business Development at Sun’s Corporate
Headquarters. Hubert holds a MS in Electronics from the ESME Engineering
School in Paris. Hubert resides in Palo Alto, CA.
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Jean
Pommier
Vice
President WW Professional Services
Ilog
support@interfrench.org |
Jean Pommier heads ILOG's worldwide professional
services organization. He brings 15 years of industry experience to the
position.
Pommier joined ILOG to work on its first generation
of rule-based systems, moving quickly into customer-facing roles in
consulting, and then into management. Prior to his current position,
Pommier led consulting and operations for ILOG's largest division, the
Industry Solutions Division. There, he was responsible for overseeing
ILOG services for the financial services, transportation and
e-government markets.
During his ILOG career, Pommier has led several
important initiatives, including the company's technical account
management, customer education and quality assurance programs. He
established ILOG's services organization, creating new practice areas
for business rule management systems and resource optimization. Overall,
Pommier has contributed to more than 400 successful customer
implementations.
Prior to ILOG, Pommier was a database administrator
for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he
helped build and maintain one of the largest Oracle installations in
Europe.
Pommier earned an engineering degree at Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in 1986, and a master's degree
in computer science at University of Nice (CERICS) in 1987.
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Khai-Minh Pham
CEO
Easyplanet
support@interfrench.org |
A successful entrepreneur and technology innovator,
Khai Minh provides the leadership and strategic vision for the company.
He consulted with leading engineers, sociologists, marketers, data
mining and privacy experts to develop Easyplanet's technology and
business model. In 1995 he founded DataMind Corporation, a leading data
mining company whose customers included Pepsico, Fidelity Investments,
GE Appliance, Chase Aerospatiale and Air Liquide.
This company also partnered with companies
including Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Arbor and Red Brick. He personally
developed Unified Agent Technology which is the core technology for
DataMind's products. Later renamed RightPoint, it was acquired in 1999
by E.piphany for $400M.
Khai Minh demonstrated during the venture his
ability to successfully start and build an internet infrastructure
company in short timeframe. Khai Minh holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in
Artificial Intelligence both from Pierre and Marie Curie University in
Paris. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, has received
international grants, in particular from DEC research labs, for his
research work in Artificial Intelligence, and received an entrepreneur
award from BP bank.
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Valerie
Vauthey
Founder
MyPrivateCoach
support@interfrench.org |
I bring long years
of successful experience in the areas of Personal Coaching, Weight Loss,
Financial Coaching, Time Management, Motivational Techniques and
Behavioral Science.
I will share with
you my multi-cultural experience as a mother of a little boy, and as a
successful entrepreneur in Europe and in the Silicon Valley where I am
an active board-member of stealth-mode Quanticore. As an active mom and
as a great weight loss achiever (-100 lbs), I really know how tricky it
can be to achieve a harmonious balance (no stressful juggling) between
professional, financial, social, personal and family success.
Based on my
successful experience of climbing the social ladder - and real mountains
as well: Kilimanjaro, Mont-Blanc, (Mount Everest is in
preparation) - I believe in daily or project-based interactive support.
Adept at the 15
Coaching Proficiencies and respectful of the International Association
of Coaches' Code of Ethics, I provide a positive learning and empowering
environment. My proven holistic coaching approach helps you unearth your
invaluable assets and remove the barriers on your path to success.
I am also adept at
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Transactional Analysis, Positive Attitude
Preaching, Work Place Ergonomics, the Power of Mantras, Feng Shui,
health & fitness and general business management. When confronted with
extremely challenging situations, I used and improved these tools
myself. I will share the results with you.
I am the President
of the Silicon Valley Coachville Chapter, a member of the Advisory Board
of the Coachville Association (33,000 members around the world), and an
active member of the International Association of Coaches (IAC), the
Alumni Association of Hartford Business School, the National Mental
Health Association, the Global Reiki Association, the Ryze Network, the
South Asian Public Health Association and the E-Commerce Benchmarking
Association. I use these networks of professionals to bring you the best
of each specialty.
In addition to these
associations, I stay current with the majority of publications regarding
health, fitness and weight loss discoveries and transfer the compiled
knowledge to you in a digestible fashion.
In my spare time, I
am completing three books: "Fad Diets: how to resist them and still lose
weight", "How to dramatically improve your Sales Closing Ability (SCA)"
and "How to Become a Life/Weight Loss Coach in 30 days".
I am fluent in
English, Spanish and French. After having lived in France, Greece,
Portugal, and on the East Coast, I now live in sunny Silicon Valley
where I am training to summit Mount Everest in 2006. We will take the
colors of MyPrivateCoach to the top of the world!
Originally from the
sunny island of Corsica, home of the Mediterranean diet, I now live with my family in sunny
Silicon Valley, California.
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