| Pierre GERARD was born in 1966, he received a Master’s degree in IT from the University of Metz in 1989.
After one year as a teacher in the Chamber of Commerce of Moselle during his military service, Pierre GERARD started in Luxembourg at BIL (now DEXIA) in 1991 as a consultant working on different applications for the dealing room. From 1993 to 1995, he has leaded several projects in banks and European administration.
At the end of 1995, he joined Reuters Luxembourg and was promoted Senior Consultant in the Risk Management Team, his main duties included, pre-sales, project management, configuration, programming and support of a Front-Office application named Kondor+, which was installed in most of the largest banks in Luxembourg.
In 2000, Pierre GERARD co-founded NEOFACTO, a software services company based in Luxembourg. NEOFACTO allows customers to choose Linux, Apache, Perl or PHP with confidence and provide vendor independent and competent interface to the advantages of Free Software. As proof of concept and capabilities, NEOFACTO develops software and started www.lesfrontaliers.lu a popular website dedicated to the cross-border commuters community of Luxembourg.
Since 2002, Pierre is Managing Director of NEONLINE (sister company of NEOFACTO) which operates www.lesfrontaliers.lu, and www.diegrenzgaenger.lu. The company started in summer 2005 a new luxemburgish job portal www.lesjobs.lu. NEONLINE is a fully profitable company with around 90% of the revenues based on add-selling. www.lesfrontaliers.lu is one of the most popular Internet portal in Luxembourg with more than 25.000 members and has a monthly average score of 170.000 visits.
Pierre GERARD acts also as the CFO of the NEOFACTO group.
In 2004, Pierre created jamendo.com (as a co-founder), a website allowing artists to publish their musics under creative commons via the peer to peer networks. |
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