Dubai, United Arab Emirates
With over 15 years of C-suite experience leading transformative product strategies in global B2B2C marketplaces Christophe has a proven track record in driving revenue growth, market leadership and team optimization across Europe and the MENA region. Focus on innovation and efficiency through AI integration and M&A. For more than 20 years Christophe is rethinking the way consumers engage with companies in various marketplaces in legaltech, hrtech and proptech. KEY HIGHLIGHTS 1 : C-Suite Experience: - Property Finder, Dubai (08/2021 - Present): Spearheaded hypergrowth, reset product practice, revamp the value proposition, introduced innovative revenue models, increased conversion. 50% CAGR during my tenure - The StepStone Group, Germany (02/2009 - 03/2021): Drove strategic global platform consolidation and managed significant growth organically and through M&A. 30% CAGR during my tenure KEY HIGHLIGHTS 2 : Revenue Growth & Market Leadership: - Property Finder: Consolidate market leadership position while scaling up revenue and increasing ebita margin -The StepStone Group : Grew revenue from €80M to €700M, building a portfolio of 40 brands in 20 countries while achieving 45% EBITA margin. KEY HIGHLIGHTS 3 : Digital Transformation & Business Efficiency: -Deploying new platform and business model globally at Property Finder and Wolters Kluwer. - Integrating successfully 13 acquisitions to either grow market share or speed up product development at StepStone and Property Finder. - Embrace Big data and AI technologies in data driven content, recommendation engine or predictive analysis. Deploying such technic on both B2B and B2C value proposition for millions of consumers, Improving customer service performance by 50%.
There are stuff I do best.... It's time. Online classifieds needs to be revigorated, I’ll start with commercial real estate in UAE
Everyone builds for before the trip. We build for everything after landing. OdySmart is the TravelOS, a mobile-first platform for connectivity, mobility, and insurance, anywhere in the world. With ~2 billion travel journeys per year by 2030, this overlooked layer is a $4B market waiting for a category leader.
Vehicule for advisory role, BigWave is specialized in scaling up marketplaces. I leverage my c-level experience in multiple start-up and scale-up worldwide. I'm also involved as Industry Advisors, contracted by Private Equity growth for commercial due dilligence or Value creation plan (1bn USD in 2025 so far) with Permira, EQT and Antler.
In the exec team as CPO I'm accountable for accelerating the performance of the marketplace. The product leadership team I'm leading has 3 focus : - Consumers (B2C) classifieds marketplace that drive millions of monthly active users - Partners (B2B) Product led sales SaaS platform that drives millions USD in Revenue - Data and AI content that democratize data platform for both B2C and B2B segements It's made possible with an awseome team of product managers, product designers UX/UI, data scientists, SEO, data content, product ops, researcher. . We build global but operate local in market leading position in UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain and KSA.
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