Brooklyn, New York, United States
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
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!
KosmoTime, the Smart Calendar for Time Blocking & Focused Work KosmoTime was merged into Chili Piper. Your calendar will never be the same
Guest speaker and coach at Stanford Ignite, a GSB-certificate program teaching innovators to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas
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
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
Signed up leading internet & new media companies to become MVNOs on LightSquared's wholesale 4G network