Executive Board

Régis Danon

Regis is a specialist in medical devices Industry with a substantial experience in sales and product consulting by France-Israel and USA. Earlier in his career, Regis fonded two companies in France. He has over 10 years of experience of Sales in an international environment, a strong experience with very highly technical health products, and the ability to lead complex sales with multiple decision making. Regis hold a Master Degree in Finance from University of Paris and a Master Degree in marketing from University of Grenoble

Ale Gicqueau

Ale is Interfrench's, SiliconFrench's and executive Club's co-founder with Pierre-Jean CHARRA. Ale is a French entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley. After starting his career at IBM in the software industry, he held a number of management positions in Silicon Valley start-ups during the dot com euphoria. After the bubble burst, his efforts to develop an effective networking business platform for French-speaking professionals lead to the creation and development of InterFrench. Over the last 7 years, over 100 business networking events were organized for over 10,000 French Speaking Professionals and 500 Executives. His extensive network gave birth to TheBusinessBridge, a management consulting corporation that provides direct and easy access to Silicon Valley via the French expat community. His consulting to French regions such as Provence lead to the return of French entrepreneurs and the creation of many jobs in France. He also helped French start-ups expand to the Silicon Valley and provided customized executive visits to French industry leaders (Socpresse, Bouygues, BIC, Altran, AXA, Auchan, Lafarge, BNP, EDF, Thales, Total, Societe Generale, L’Oreal). More recently, he founded ClinDataTools, a software company that specializes in clinical data solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Ale Gicqueau holds an engineering degree from École Centrale Paris and a Master of Science from UC Davis.

Angelika Blendstrup

Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D., is the founder and principal of Blendstrup & Associates. She holds a Ph.D. in Bilingual, Bicultural Education from Stanford University and teaches in five languages. Angelika specializes in individualized, inter-cultural business communication training, accent reduction, presentation skill coaching and personal branding.

Previous co-president of SiliconFrench and l"executive Club, she had the idea of interviewing the fascinating foreign leaders in Silicon Valley and was able to interview more than 45 foreign leaders in 14 months. The edited interviews are presented in the book, They Made It!.

In addition to 'They Made It!', she co-wrote Communicating the American Way, a guide to US business communications. Angelika teaches US business communications skills to international executives in Silicon Valley as well as classes and workshops at Stanford University, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley, UCLA’s Anderson School of Business on topics such as cross-cultural communication, managing virtual teams, presentation skills and branding yourself strategically.

Jean-Bernard Rolland

Jean-Bernard serves as Silicon French's Chief Technology Officer. He is also Vice President for the HR Solutions Line of Business at SAP, a software editor, in charge of the development and sales of core HR solutions such as Payroll, Organization Management, Travel Expenses, Time and Attendance or Talent Management. He has over 15 years’ practice throughout Europe, Latin America and North America. His expertise is in enterprise software, advanced analytics and IT strategy.

Jean-Bernard started as a consultant with Accenture specializing in IT strategy and masterplans. He then worked in Brazil as a business development manager for Underwriter Laboratories in Sao Paulo and served in different position at SAP. Jean-Bernard has a Master's Degree Summa Cum Laude from the Sorbonne University in Paris and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

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