Eric Didier | CEO, ividence | Paris

Eric Didier

CEO, ividence

Paris - France

Formerly co-founder, owner and CEO of Soamai, successfully acquired by an American software company in 2004, then COO for Viadeo, I now start "ividence", a brand new project ...

Entrepreneur and visionary executive, with exceptional experience and skills in building teams to create, develop, promote and sell high added-value solutions (Web 2.0 and ...

Since 2008: CEO

ividence is a software company based à Paris, created on November 2008 by 2 "serial entrepreneurs".
ividence provides a SaaS platform that maximizes new customers acquisition and drastically decreases acquisition costs.

2006 - 2008 : COO and Cofounder

Viadeo is a large European Business Social Network, a efficient way to find and share with partners, clients, colleagues, candidates.

With more than 4 Million active members (including 2 Million in China), Viadeo is rapidly expanding his world wide ...

2006 : Executive Vice President for the Americas

In charge of building Sunopsis operations for the United States, Latin America and Canada.

Sunopsis was an emerging market leader for Data Warehouse ETL (Extraction, Transform and Load) and Integration of Data, Events and Services. Sunopsis was recognized ...

2004 - 2006 : VP Integrated Metadata Management Solutions Platform

VP Integrated Metadata Management Solutions Platform – Washington, DC
Rochade & becubic WW Sales, Marketing and Product Management

I built and drove the worldwide division dedicated to Rochade & becubic, leading software solutions dedicated to Metadata ...

2000 - 2004 : CEO - Chairman of the board

IT asset Intelligence - Leading software vendor on the Legacy Modernization Market – Paris (France) - 45 employees

I built the company from scratch, driving Sales and Marketing, R&D, Financials, up to 100 customers and 45 employees – I executed 2 fund ...

1997 - 2000 : Managing Director (France-Belgium-Switzerland)

Leading provider of ERP software solutions for the process manufacturing market (Food and Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical) – Atlanta – 1000 employees

The first challenge was the repositioning of the French 8 years old subsidiary from a pure financial ...

1990 - 1997 : Managing Director (France-Belgium-Switzerland)

Number One Mechanical CAD/CAM Software Company
PTC has grown from $2.7M to $1B within 7 years

Sales Director of French, Belgium and Swiss subsidiary – Paris
Built a 50 people team. Opening and expansion of 8 local offices.

• Results: $31M revenue ...

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