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

BBVA

Managing Director Origination Europe

Flashpoint Venture Capital

Investment Committee Member (Venture Debt)

Flashpoint Group is an international tech investment manager founded in 2012 with over $400m AUM backing founders from CEE and Israel building and scaling companies globally providing Venture Capital, Venture Debt and Secondary investments.

Managing Partner

Segmed, Inc.

Investor, Board Observer

Dispelix Oy

Welcome Pickups

Firenze Partners

Firenze Partners is a technology advisory firm that focuses on providing transactional advice to entrepreneurs building innovative startups, particularly SaaS solutions in the FinTech ecosystem, while working towards a rapid transformational change in preparation for an equity raise to accelerate growth.

Partner

Columbia Lake Partners

Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies. In prior roles, the team, have extended credit and managed portfolio relationships of greater than £300 million to over 100 companies. For more details please visit: www.clpgrowth.com
 
I am involved in the entire deal life cycle including originating, assessing, evaluating and post investment monitoring, focusing particularly on managing CLP relationships with the equity sponsors ecosystem and on identifying high growth technology companies in need of growth financing that best suits CLP’s investment criteria.

Director

Involved in the launch, set up and planning of CLP as a new Venture Debt Fund in Europe.
Responsible for launching and establishing CLP's branding and positioning within the startup and VC ecosystems in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. Instrumental in building CLP's initial pipeline.

NextGen Tel Sarl

Strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development and mentoring

Advising on fundraising for first seed investment to get the company to the next value creation milestone

Consultant

Kreos Capital

Managed the Investment Process including due diligence, pre-investment proposals, drafting and agreeing term sheets on a number of investments

Managed the Portfolio over the life of two funds

Managed the relationships with CEOs and CFOs of the companies and respective equity sponsors, financial analysis, documentation, structuring and re-structuring.

Managed several aspects of the Fund Corporate Governance

Portfolio Executive

Whitefield Trust Management Limited

Whitefield Trust Management is a trust management company providing international tax advice for private Companies and high net worth individuals

Managing business, administrative and banking operations on behalf of clients based in Italy, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States

Registration of UK companies for VAT, full VAT compliance and KYC

Application of Italian language skills

Client Manager

C-level executive with 15+ years’ experience in the private credit ecosystem having provided Venture Debt financing to 100+ high growth VC-backed technology companies from early to growth stage.

A proven track record of successfully backing founders originating from the UK, continental Europe and the US. Extensive network in the tech ecosystem built over time focused on collaboration, communication, transparency, integrity and leadership. 

Considerable experience with Venture Debt origination, deal structuring and financing, fundraising, trust management/fund structure paired with a strong entrepreneurial approach has enabled me to launch and successfully establish two pan-European Venture Debt Funds.

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