Didier
COO/Managing Director - France - iCEO #5176

Experience

Founder and president of 3 start-up companies in the high tech sector. Managing director of an insurance company.

Major Achievements

Management - Administration - Finance Reorientation of the activity of a compnay with 20 MF loss, cutting back of general administration costs, revision of the computer department organisation, revision of the regional organisation, external growth by buying a competitor. Return to stability, turnover doubled. Funds raising for a start-up company : business plan definition, funds raising, activity launch, computer department organisation, resell 12x the start-up capital within 15 months. Human Ressources : negociation with trade unions for the loss of 1/3 employees of a 6000 employees company (restructuring plan, relations with the Labour Inspection administration, conflicts management - Conciliation board – Labour laws). Management of pluridisciplinary and multicultural teams : constitution of one single team after the merger of a french subsidiary and the buying of a US company (common culture, teams merger, clients philosophy development) and setting up of a personal evaluation system and employee profit-sharing scheme.

Industry Sector Competencies

E-Commerce/Internet

IT/Computer Hardware

Software

Telecommunications

Media

Management

Professional Objectives

Function: Management

Sector: EPU Import

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Availability: Full time

Prefered Locations: France

Additional Professional Interests

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

France

Luxembourg

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Expert)

Acquisition and shadow management (Expert)

New product or service launch (Expert)