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Board of Directors
Didier Lesteven - Chairman of the board
Didier Lesteven brings 25 years of experience in the high technology sector where he acquired a wide range of skills in general management, international sales, and IP portfolio& licensing
He held management positions with HP, 3COM, Sterling Commerce and Infovista, before being President and CEO of Medialive which was acquired in 2009 by Kudelski group after 6 years of intensive growth. Lastly he held Chairman positions for various web and mobile companies such as Open-Plug which was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in 2010.
Philippe Granger (Auriga Partners)
Philippe Granger is a Partner at Auriga Partners since 1999. He has been instrumental in a number of business ventures across the software, Internet and semiconductor sectors. He currently sits on the boards of several companies in France, the USA and Switzerland.
Prior to his work at Auriga Partners, Philippe was a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) in Paris where he headed the Computer Science department. He also worked as an IT researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Philippe holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Valéry Huot (CDC Innovation)
Valéry Huot is Managing Partner at the venture capital firm, CDC Innovation.
Prior to joining CDC Innovation in 2004, Valéry co-led the Fund-of-Funds team at the French Caisse des Dépôts for three years. His previous roles include co-heading the SME Financing Office at the French Treasury and managing the Syracuse III telecommunications satellite project team for the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA). Mr. Huot began his career in Australia, where he worked on a CDMA mobile architecture project with the University of Sydney.
He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (X90).
Guillaume Largillier (Stantum co-founder)
Guillaume Largillier’s background with the company includes seven years of entrepreneurship – co-founding JazzMutant and serving as CEO as it evolved into Stantum.
Largillier has a broad knowledge of human-machine interface technologies, with strong expertise in multi-modal user interfaces. He has participated in major industry conferences (including SIGGRAPH, Microsoft Summit, SID Mobile Display Conference, Microsoft TechDays, and Interactive Displays Conference).
Largillier earned an MA degree in audio-visual studies at the University of Bordeaux.
Nicolas Rose (Xange Private Equity)
Nicolas started his career as a software developer and IT consultant, he then developed sector expertise in the financing and valuation of high-tech companies for JP Morgan and as a financial analyst specialised in Information Technology with Hambrecht & Quist Euromarkets. Nicolas joined Paris-based Venture Capital firm XAnge Private Equity in 2004, specializing in Internet, Software technology and related services. As a Partner there he currently sits on the board of 7 high-technology companies in France and the US.
Nicolas holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Michigan (USA) and an MBA from the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (France).