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

Glide

In charge of Glide's social media channels! Spreading the word about how the world is a better place when companies can create software that fits their needs and not vice versa. 

Learn more at glideapps.com

Head of Social Media

I collaborate with the Glide team to help them improve their social media & community programs with the goal of bringing more brand awareness to their products.

Social Media Advisor

DealHub.io

I managed Dealhub’s company accounts and executive advocacy.

Apollo.io

Manage all social media programs and expand Apollo's presence on the different platforms.

- Grew social media presence by 500% during the first 15 months
- Increased by 1200% the average of monthly organic impressions
- Created an engaged community 
- Took Apollo's socials to 100,000 followers

Head of Social Media & Senior Community Manager

- Increased Apollo’s social media community by 400% in the first 9 months 
- Got 3X more impressions on the first three months vs previous quarter
- Activated our employees to get over 2million impressions in one single month from employee advocacy

Senior Social Media & Community Manager

- 1.5 million video views on TikTok
- 7.5K applications sourced via short video strategy
- Increased our combined following to 65K 
- Hit the 1 million organic impressions in a month 
- Led the brand during 2022 when it was named Top 50: LinkedIn Top US Startups

- Increased LinkedIn following by 100% in first 6 months, from 15k to 30k.
- Launched presence on other social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok) with over 20k followers combined.
- 3X social media following in first 6 months

Social Media Manager

ZKTeco Inc

I was in charge of promotion and advertising of ZKTeco's products and events for the Chile branch.
- Built a 10k database in the first year. 
- Hosted over 52 webinars in 2020
- Documented over 20 case studies for ZKTeco portfolios

Marketing and Media Specialist

Entel

I worked in the Internal Market Department developing the customer service and after-sales processes and handbooks for the social media channels of some of the biggest retail stores in Chile (Cencosud, Tiendas Paris and Johnson)

Senior Community Manager

P3 Cycles

I was in charge of the e-commerce marketing (paid advertising, content and social media management). 
- Increased social media community by 100% in 3 months. 
- Increased website traffic by 35%

Bocas Group

Ads Manager for restaurant brands like Bocas Grill, Bocas House and Francisca Restaurant.
-Managed paid media budgets over 200k a year.

Ads Manager 

I led multidisciplinary teams for several brands. I took part of the creation and execution of strategies, reporting, in-house marketing, and paid media campaigns.
- Manage 5 brand accounts  simultaneously
- Built a database of over 100k
- Helped creating and nurturing communities with big following (over 300k)

Project Manager

EV Newspaper

I led the creation, setup, and content planning for all the social networks of the newspaper. 

-Built a community of around 40k on Instagram, 20k on Facebook, and 40k on Twitter.
-Achieved over 1 million organic hits on one day.

Head of Social Media & Sr. Community Manager @ Apollo | Community Management | Social Media Growth| Video Content

I’ve spent 13+ years in social media helping brands turn storytelling into revenue.

Not vanity metrics. Actual business results.

Here’s what that looks like:
✅ 300%+ YoY brand growth
✅ Scaled accounts to 500K+ on Instagram and 100K+ on LinkedIn
✅ Strategy featured in Forbes for standout employer branding
✅ Named among LinkedIn’s Best B2B Brands
✅ Pipeline directly influenced by social

I build strategies that don’t just get likes, they get leads, talent, and trust.

If your social presence isn’t driving business, we should talk.

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