Philippe Limantour

Experienced Top Executive/CEO of fast growing high-tech businesses.

Paris, France

Philippe Limantour

Experienced manager, with more than 17 years in fast growing IT business development and management, innovating in the filed of converged solutions: computing/telecom, pbx/mobile communications, distribution/services, software edition/system integration...

My background in both international/national experiences have given me a strong knowledge of innovation processes, strategic management, marketing, sales, MP&L, M&A, startup of companies both from scratch and through spinoffing.

At ease in fast-peace startups as in large international structures, multi-cultural environments, I like merging innovation, marketing, communication, technical and strategy skills to develop fast growing business by leading teams and helping them going beyond their wishes and capabilities.

Strong knowledge and experience of B2B, low and Mid Markets, large account markets, either international or french fields, through direct or partner and channel management using close-the-loop marketing strategies and change management.

Entrepreneurship, team building and management, B2B marketing strategy and management, operational marketing, interactive marketing, business development, P&L, project and product management, M&A, partner and channel management, deal, sales management, R&D management, networking.

Saas, Telecom, Compuing, Software, ToIp, Centrex, VoIP, multimedia, networking, security, SLA, ASP, managed services, computer graphics, 3D, VR, communication.

T.O.E.I.C. 935 pts/990.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/plimantour
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Schools attended

Centre National des Arts et Métiers (Management, Marketing, Economie des entreprises)

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Doctorat couplé avec Paris XI)

Université Paris 13 Paris Nord Villetaneuse (DEA ("Arts, Sciences et Technologies de l'Image"))

ESIEA

Since 2008: YouSAAS

	Directeur General
	YouSAAS is a global Software as a Service provider that offers ISV’s and resellers an innovative, shared platform for SAAS solutions. With our high-availability infrastructure, know-how and easy deployment plan YouSAAS is able to transform web based and conventional software into SAAS. YouSAAS 3 step plan covers all necessary actions from analyses to go live. The YouSAAS platform offers provisioning, licensing, billing, logging, uploading, partner management, etc. Thanks to YouSAAS, software companies can get their software online without having to develop specific multi-tenant, web based versions. They can now offer their clients real SAAS-solutions through the Internet. ISVs, Assess your SaaS Readiness through our Business Design Session, YouSAAS Professional Services. Resellers, expand your portfolio and increase your recurrent revenues through our unique RRR - Recurrent Revenues for Resellers - Program!
	Sector: High Tech

Since 2004: groupe ESIEA

	Member of the Board

	Sector: Universities and higher education institutions

Since 1997: Commission Européenne

	European Expert
	* Audited DGXIII european projects in Brussels as a European Expert in the area of multimedia and real time networking collaborative communication solutions. * Performed project management / cost&risk audits, technical audits and strategic business audits.
	Sector: Public Services - Administration

2002 - 2008 : Resadia

	CEO / Directeur Délégué
	Leading French IP Solutions Integrator group. Resadia designs, integrates and administers secured and real-time VoIP communications solutions. 601 M€, 480 sales force, 3,500 technical experts, 80,000 midmarket customers. Resadia has become the leading French IP Solutions Integrator group. http://www.resadia.com * Developed the services turnover: 40% of the overall turnover in 2002 to 55% in 2005. Global turnover raised an average 12%/year. * Merged the 110M€ Resatis network and the IT-focused 450M€ Aredia network joined forces to create the leading national network for IT and Telecommunications Services Distribution and Integration named Resadia. * Overachieved annual partnership sales targets in 2002,2004. * Developed and marketed new managed solutions increasing the services turnover by more than 10% per year. * Managed Resatis from 2002, increasing the turnover by 27% the first year and multiplying by 2.4 the net income over turnover ratio, doubling the own capital stocks.
	Sector: High Tech

2001 - 2002 : Quantic Dream

	COO / Directeur Général
	Software Editor. * Managed a 60M$ and 50 employees business development. * Was In charge of the production of the multimedia software product. * Opened a San Francisco based sales office. * Handled relationship with the board of capital equity investors. * Won 6 M$ of governmental and industrial grants to help fund the software development.
	Sector: High Tech

1999 - 2000 : CTS - Cril Telecom Software

	Director of Technology / Directeur Division Marketing & Production
	Software Editor. * Spin-off mission of a 50 people computer services department out of a 1000 people IT services group. * Turned it into an autonomous computer software development company. * Redesigned the internal structure and procedures by working closely with the VP Quality; * Delivered new software projects in time to the International panel of operators and regulators while they had a overdelay of 20% to 30% before the redesign. * Greatly improved the visibility, control, and quality insurance of the whole software development process; * Managed the Software Product Lines Development Strategy. * Managed a team of over 40 developers and 3 team leaders. * Hired 10 new people to join the development team. * Conceived a new software architecture using third-level object oriented and web based architectures. * Applied Change management, Team management, Business process & operations management skills.
	Sector: High Tech

1998 - 1999 : Sim Team

	CEO / Co-Founder
	Co-created the company and managed it. Grew the company to up to 7 people and 10M$ turnover within the first year in integrating Hardware and Software , doing consulting, services, and application development using virtual reality, 3D interactive graphics, stereovision, man to machine interfaces, haptics, for key accounts communication and collaborative working within industrial projects. * Main duties included Management, P&L, Sales and Presales, Marketing, Finance, and Accounting.
	Sector: High Tech

1997 - 1998 : Alias Wavefront - Silicon Graphics

	Software Engineering
	Alias Wavefront, Subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc.. World wide leadership position in 3D Graphics Software Development for the entertainment and industrial design markets. Was decreed the technical academy award winning - Oscar statuette - as a member of the R&D and engineering team which developed the Maya software package. Conceived and deployed a quality supervision programme which allowed the R&D teams spread over Seattle, Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Toronto and Paris to automatically get daily quality analysis and non regression tests. This project helped delivering time to market best quality Maya 1.0 Software. *Worked in a highly collaborative environment using all the available IT channels - phone calls, emails, video conferences, ftp, intranet, voice mails ... - with almost 120 people spread over 6 locations, in a multi cultural environment.
	Sector: High Tech

1991 - 1997 : Medialab - Canal+

	Head of virtual reality and special projects
	Canal+ Group. World wild leadership in VR and RealTime 3D graphics Animation and Rendering. Created the industrial VR department - 0 to 12 M$/yr - winning an international call for tenders by the European Space Agency. 0 to 12 M$/yr. Hired and managed a dedicated team of up to 9 people. Moved a R&D software to a worldwide selling VR product. Managed presales, project breakdown and risk and cost analysis. Managed simultaneous industrial and broadcast projects in industrial simulations, Live Broadcasting, Scientific visualizations, Realtime character performance animation. Managed the first in the world real time TV broadcast of a sport event with Enhanced 2D/3D graphics for the America's Cup San Diego international broadcast center. Developed new mocap algorithms for performing realtime facial animation. Worked with Moebius - Jean Giraud - on the first worldwide full length 3D movie project Starwatcher. *Conducted strategic studies in synchronizing a 110 people project.
	Sector: High Tech

1990 - 2002 : groupe ESIEA

	Computer Graphics Teacher
	* Teached computer graphics to around 200 students on an average of 15 days per year in parallel of my main professional duties during vacations time.
	Sector: Universities and higher education institutions

Interests

technical academy award winning; Who's Who in the World 1998-, Who's Who in America 1998-, Who's Who in Finance and Industry 2000-, Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2005-, Cambridge "2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century".

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