Chili Piper

Chili Piper is the leading inbound conversion software, used by top B2B revenue teams like Intuit, Twilio, Spotify, and Gong.
We’re on a journey to build the best company to work for and to work with while trying to make the world a better place. Our team is distributed around more than 160 cities and 35 countries around the world. Join the movement!

Co-Founder & co-CEO

KosmoTime 

KosmoTime, the Smart Calendar for Time Blocking & Focused Work

KosmoTime was merged into Chili Piper. Your calendar will never be the same

co-founder & CEO

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Guest speaker and coach at Stanford Ignite, a GSB-certificate program teaching innovators to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas

Guest Lecturer

Floating Apps

Floating Apps AutoMagic Sync retrieves in gmail the contacts, emails and meeting that should be in Salesforce and smartly imports them. More than 400 companies signed up. The company reached break-even in summer 2015 and was transitioned to Chili Piper, a new venture focused on Buyer Enablement

founder & CEO

LightSquared

Led design & deployment of all IT systems for this $10Bn greenfield telco operator:
- re-architected Business Support Systems and issued a new RFP, resulting in $85M savings
- pioneered BSS deployment in cloud instead of in-house, resulting in $11M CAPEX reduction and increased business flexibility
- deployed company-wide Oracle ERP on time and on budget at Amazon AWS
- led migration from on-premises Microsoft environment to Google Apps
- reduced operating budget by 40% while improving internal and external user satisfaction

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

Signed up leading internet & new media companies to become MVNOs on LightSquared's wholesale 4G network

Vice President of Sales

Gotham Ventures

Early Stage Venture Capital Firm part of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Network, New York
Responsibilities:
Worked with VC team to source and evaluate investment opportunities in early stage high tech companies 
Achievements: 
Completed several in-depth due diligences leading to revisit investment decisions
Identified market opportunities leading to new investments

Venture Partner

Sagem Morpho

Led new product development for large scale, security-centric government projects

Post-Acquisition Consultant

Delean Vision - sold to IDNX - Sagem Morpho now Safran SA

2003-2004 	CEO - Delean Vision / Post-Acquisition Consultant - Identix (IDNX)
Biometrics - Face Recognition, New York
Responsibilities:
Identified critical market space where invention would be most valuable; hired engineers, built product, brought it to market, generated revenues
Achievements: 
Built company from new invention to successful sale to space leader Identix (IDNX)

co-Founder & CEO

RedCart Technologies - sold to MSN Shopping

E-Commerce Software-as-a-Service Provider (universal shopping cart, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
Founded and ran this 70-employee company focused on &quot;universal shopping cart&quot; services (enabling portals to provide a single shopping cart when sending their users to merchant sites)
Achievements: 
Signed up a network of 110 partnering online merchants
Built order backlog of more than $4M
Negotiated acquisition by Microsoft MSN Shopping

The LivePix Company - sold to Live Picture, Inc.

Consumer Software, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
Created and ran this spin off the Live Picture Company, re-purposing a break-through imaging technology from professional users to consumers, in collaboration with M John Sculley (ex-CEO of Apple)
Achievements: 
Led product development from idea to shipments of several million units
Achieved $6M in revenues the first year, $10M run rate the following year
Built company to 55 employees and break-even
Successfully sold minority share back to holding company

Started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, ran Sales for a $2Bn telecom company negotiating billion dollar deals with companies like Google, now co-founder & co-CEO of Chili Piper, the first Demand Conversion Platform (chat, form routing, lead routing, SDR-to-AE Handoff & Scheduling)

In my spare time I re-read the 27 chapters of "Neuroeconomics, Decision Science & The Brain" by NYU star professor Paul Glimcher, in the hope of bringing its findings to the science of Sales & Marketing.

Specialties: Sales, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Go-to-market, Digital Marketing, IT, Technology, Innovation, CIO, CEO, venture capital, strategy consulting, enterprise software, internet, web, mobile, Cloud

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Dave Partners

At Dave Partners, we specialize in executive search consulting and recruitment solutions for public and private technology companies facing unprecedented challenges. We understand the critical importance of identifying transformational leaders who can drive growth, scale, and financial over-performance.

Our consultancy is sought after for important projects and instances where larger firms have fallen short. Unlike national offices with junior staff, we offer personalized service and focus on a select group of top clients. Our approach involves conducting highly effective, stealth searches with unencumbered access to top-caliber executives, yielding high-quality results in record time.

Typical searches include independent board members, CEOs, and the entire C-suite, including COOs, CFOs, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Chief Product Officers, and more. With a strong focus on cloud-based B2B SaaS enterprise and B2C consumer internet businesses, we have a proven track record of success.

Our 'Level 3 Recruiting' and 'Core Fit Selection' processes are implemented in some of the most successful technology companies, ensuring the perfect fit for your executive team.

Ladders

Invested, operated and helped build Ladders to 400 Employees, ~ $90 million in revenues.

Led all People initiatives focused on attracting, retaining and developing Ladders people as well as managing the company's relationships with executive recruiters. Drove high growth.  Recruitment, HR, and executive leadership experience helped forge close relationships with many of the 40,000+ HR professionals and recruiters at some of the nation's top employers and recruiting firms.

Investor, Operating Executive

The Carley Group

Investing, designing and developing real estate.

President

Yahoo

Co-founded and built HotJobs to 650 employees, IPO & $1.2 billion market cap then sold to Yahoo!

Selected, hired, and trained all employees while establishing a winning culture from start-up to IPO (NASD: HOTJ).

Built World-class Sales force responsible for driving explosive revenue growth exceeding 500% annually, from start-up to post IPO and more than $125 million in revenues.

General Manager of HJ's AgencyExchange, an online marketplace focused on staffing and search professionals; SVP Recruiting. Joined HotJobs.com as a Co-founder in 1997, initially as Vice President, Human Resources. 

Created new business within HotJobs to provide services to Executive Search Professionals and exceeded projected goals by over 218% in 10 months by growing business to over $7.2 million in revenues.  Increased scale of business to projected annual revenue of more than $19 million and grew team to over 40 Account Executives.

Co-Founder HotJobs.com

Prudential

Interest rate swaps, derivatives and risk management strategies to hedge the financial risk of different business groups under The Prudential umbrella.

Corporate Finance

Board & Executive Headhunter Dedicated To Helping CEOs & Investors Maximize Enterprise Value | Author | Ironman & World Championship Athlete.

As the CEO of Dave Partners, I lead our boutique executive search firm known for helping leading growth investors to mitigate execution risk and generate excess returns. 

We specialize in identifying, extracting & securing proven operating executives that build the systems, infrastructure and People for scalable growth. We have the trust, confidence & privilege of being retained by some of the greatest CEO Founders and success stories in tech allowing them to align their People with their belief systems.

I leverage my 20 years of experience as a founder, advisor, and headhunter to build teams of transformational leaders that drive growth, scale, and financial over-performance for our clients. I have built and sold billion-dollar businesses, including HotJobs and Ladders, where I focused on attracting, retaining, and developing Executive teams and all People. I am passionate about delivering world class service to world class clients. This involves the white-glove service of a boutique agency and building long-term relationships with a select group of high-growth, PE & VC-backed technology companies. I am fluent in French and Spanish, author of HIRE SMART FROM THE START, a 7x IRONMAN, All World & World Championship Athlete.

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