Executive Team
We are a team of seasoned marketers, consultants, engineers and entrepreneurs with a unique combination of commercial and tech-savvy expertise. We are recognized leaders of international and multicultural sales and technical teams. KOL in cybersecurity, software development and broad artificial intelligence matters.
Didier Mascarelli, Ph.D
Didier graduated from INSA de Lyon with a Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence applied to Civil Engineering. During his research he designed knowledge models and built rules based systems. After a successful technical decade with ILOG (French software unicorn of the 1990's), he moved into Business roles and now counts more than 20 years of experience in Sales Management and entrepreneurship with Tech companies (AI solutions, cybersecurity, system engineering, scientific publishing). Didier has an extensive international management experience in the US and EMEA and in various industries : Biotech, Pharma, Finance, Telecom, Scientific Publishing. Didier lives in Paris.
Michel Duranton
Michel graduated from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) with a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Starting his career with the world leader in the nautical industry Bénéteau in Italy, later he went on to executive roles for more than two decades in the eyewear industry at the world leader Luxottica in France, before joining Marcolin France as CEO and Chairman. Michel is highly recognized as an expert in corporate mergers such as vertical integrations of Ray Ban and Oakley into Luxottica or more recently Viva International into Marcolin. He is an expert in business development, selective distribution and wholesaling.
Michel lives in Nice.
Partners
Our partners are seasoned marketers, consultants, engineers and entrepreneurs with a unique combination of commercial and tech-savvy expertise. We have been working with some of them for over decades. They are recognized leaders of international and multicultural sales and technical teams. KOL in cybersecurity, software development and broad artificial intelligence matters.
Vincent Lextrait, Ph.D
CEO of Metaspex
Vincent graduated from Ecole des Mines de Paris with a Master's degree in Computer Sciences and a Ph.D in Computer Sciences from Université de Nice. He worked successively for the largest ERP vendor in Europe (now IBM), Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium), ILOG (now IBM) an INRIA startup spinoff, and Amadeus, the travel technology leader. At Amadeus, he and the team he hired built all the layers from iron and up that allow Amadeus to sustain 40,000 transactions per second, which compares for instance as ~60% of the traffic Google Search delivered worldwide in 2019. Vincent is a KOL in C++ with enormous contribution to the community.
Vincent lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.