Independent Board Director | Entrepreneur & Investor | Digital Transformation, AI & International Expansion | France & USA

If you're building a board and want a director with 30+ years in tech who has founded, exited, invested, and governed across France and the US to navigate the AI shift, or if you're seeking a high-impact strategic advisor and tailored sparring partner for founders at pivotal milestones: let's talk!

I've spent 30 years building tech companies and the last decade backing the people who build them. Today I put that operator-investor experience to work in the boardroom.

As a founder, I co-founded and led five tech ventures in France: a web agency (as CMO, acquired by Omnicom BBDO), a web hosting company (as CEO, acquired by France Telecom), a blogging platform (as COO, acquired by Six Apart), and a startup studio (as COO, self-financed) plus LeWeb, the conference that brought Silicon Valley to Europe for over a decade, which I co-founded and led as CEO (acquired by Reed Elsevier). After Ublog joined Six Apart, I ran marketing for EMEA there (2003–2007).

As an investor, I was an early angel in LinkedIn, LendingClub, Teads and Evernote. In 2015 I co-founded The Refiners, a San Francisco pre-seed fund for foreign-born founders — 56 companies backed. From 2020 to April 2026, I was a Partner at Frenchfounders, where I created and led LeFonds, the investment practice backing French-speaking entrepreneurs expanding internationally.

What I bring to a board:

• An operator's judgment on growth, product and go-to-market — I've lived the decisions boards debate.
• An investor's lens on capital allocation, fundraising and exits.
• A transatlantic network and first-hand experience of scaling between Europe and the US — in both directions.
• A working knowledge of digital transformation and AI, and what they actually change inside a company.

I serve on the boards of SKEMA Business School and Retency, and have also served on the boards of Frenchfounders and the Sigfox Foundation.

I'm now looking to take on independent board mandates, ideally for companies at an inflection point navigating their approach to AI transformation within the next decade.

French-American, based in Paris, with strong business ties in the US.

Author of Comme Elles: Entreprenez Votre Vie!

Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur — Knight of the Legion of Honour.