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Dan Ake is an expert in artificial intelligence and distributed software platforms as well as being a mobile social networking guru with a detailed understanding of new sociological trends and behaviours. Before becoming Right People CEO, Dan worked on enhancing numerous internet banking platforms from his base in Silicon Valley.
Dan has a successful track record in a number of executive sales positions for major financial institutions in Europe. He holds an MBA in finance & marketing from HEC, Paris, an Opto-Electronics Engineer degree, and a Masters degree in Electronics and in NLP.
Bertrand Gerard-Boucheny is an expert in process duplications. His main mission is their industrialization. As a CFO for a 200M€ unit out of the 6B€ Lactalis Group, he was in charge of synchronizing sales processes for fast growing subsidiaries. Having 14 years of experience into financial controlling, he brings his permanent obsession for cost and margin tracking. He acquired these skills while being responsible for the return of new sales investment. Along with a team of 50 people, he was dedicated to assist and follow up international development through 110 sales units worldwide at a rhythm of 5 new ones per year.
Bertrand holds an MBA from Rouen Business School (France).
Jean-Michel is a respected economist at the Paris Chamber of Commerce (1971-73), then at the group Compagnie bancaire which became Paribas(1998) then BNP Paribas (2000) - Economist for the survey bureau (1973-78), in charge of internal information service and for the center for information and survey on credit (Ciec) (1978-89), Founder and president of « l'Atelier » (technology survey agency) (since 1980) - Founder and President of « Club de l'Arche », of the « internet festival » organization (Afi), of « Cahiers électroniques de doléance », of the « Association of numerical cities » (AVN) - Counselor of André Labarrère (citymayor of Pau) for the project Pau Broadband Country (since 2002).
Jean-Michel Billaut has been nominated as one of the 15 most influent bloggers in France by Le Monde newspaper http://billaut.typepad.com
Michel BON (1943) is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Editions du Cerf, the Dominicans' publishing house and of Devoteam, a listed information technologies services company. He is also senior advisor to Close Brothers, an investment bank, and to Permira, an investment fund. He serves on the boards of several companies including Lafarge and SONAE.
He was chairman and CEO of France Telecom from 1995 to 2002. During this period, France Telecom opened up to competition, went public and became one of the largest European telecom operators, with key positions in mobile (Orange), network services (Equant) and internet (Wanadoo, FreeServe).
Previously, he spent ten years in the banking sector and in 1985 joined Carrefour, the largest European retail company as CEO and then chairman & CEO. He left in 1993, when he was appointed by the Government to head the French Agency for Employment, ANPE, up to 1995.
He was educated at ESSEC, ENA and Stanford. He is married and father of 4.
Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist. Professor at Paris-La Sorbonne University, Director of Societies, an international magazine about human and social sciences. He is also General Secretary of the Research Center for Imaginary. In 1982, he founded the Research Center for the Current and Daily. His favourite topics are post-modernity, daily analysis, individualism critics, tribes, communities, and nomadism. He is the author of the following books (non exhaustive) Time of Tribes (1988), Conquest of the present. For a daily sociology (1979), Social dynamics (1981).
Jean-Thierry Augustin is Deputy Managing Director of Eurosport SA, responsible for the distribution and development of the group. Eurosport is the number 1 pan-european sports television channel, distributed in over 107 million homes across Europe.
Before joining Eurosport in 2001, Jean-Thierry was CEO of an online start-up in the travel industry, Prizzo.com. A graduate of HEC, then gaining a Masters in History at the Sorbonne, he began his career in 1991 - 2000 at Thomson-CSF (now Thales) in the aerospace division, covering Australia. In 1994, he won the TAAATS contract, the largest aviation infrastructure project in Australia's history, commissionned in 2000. He was subsequently promoted to Export Director for Airsys ATM covering Asia-Pacific.
André Auberton is the founder and CEO of Soitec, an example of a successful move from fundamental research in the heart of a laboratory dedicated to nanotechnologies to worldwide industrial leadership in an innovative and highly competitive domain. Prior to founding Soitec, Andre Auberton-Hervé managed several joint development programs between Leti and Thomson-CSF. We value his entrepreneur vision and entrepreneur experience. Andre Auberton-Hervé holds a doctorate degree in semiconductor physics and a master’s degree in materials science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France).