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Investor and member of the Strategic Committee
Apr 2016
Combo’s mission is a big one: simplify HR for small and medium-sized businesses across Europe - less admin, more human.
Combo already helps 8,000+ independent businesses, franchises and groups in the hospitality, retail, healthcare sectors and beyond. In a nutshell: any business with frontline workers and employee shifts to schedule can use Combo.
From onboarding, to scheduling, to simplifying the monitoring of vacation and sick days, all the way through to one-click payroll prep… Combo helps SMEs to free themselves from administrative tasks and focus on what’s important: its customers and team.
Combo is growing quickly, tripling its revenue year after year and doubling the size of its team. 8,000+ customers and 100,000 employees use the app on a daily basis all over France… and soon in the rest of Europe thanks to its 40 million Series A in early 2022.
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2023
Expert (Coach of CEOs) & Member of the "Digital Transformation" Committee.
Feb 2023
WILCO accelerates innovative projects driven by men and women to create economic value and have a positive impact on society. Projects led by teams in 3 business areas: Industry, Healthcare, Digital, (12 sectors) for 3 types of customers:
[French startups (1,500 startups accelerated since 2012 - 100 new startups per year / €300M raised per year / 50% of startups with sales > €1M in 3 years]
WILCO deploys 2 programs to accelerate the growth and scalability.
1. WILCO One (+1500 startups accelerated) :
Tech startups: Structuring entrepreneurial projects on the road to €1 million in annual sales within 3 years
- DeepTech startups: Structuring and de-risking entrepreneurial projects for successful fund-raising.
2. COMET (400 accelerated startups): CEO/founders coaching to help execute and realign their companys development roadmap.
[Large and Mid Corporate (40 partners and/or customers)]
Accelerate Open-Innovation and empower your teams :
Open Innovation Programs
White-label collaborations Programs
Immersions Programs with startups
[International ecosystems] Driving startups success and building world-class accelerators.
- Immersion programs for foreign startups wishing to validate the opportunity/ to develop their business in France
- Building ready-to-use acceleration program based on WILCOs KPI-Driven acceleration methodology
WILCO has developed 5 main assets over the years :
- A KPI-Driven Methodology focused on developing innovative projects on five growth levers
- Business Managers sectoral and Thematic Experts
- Non-dilutive interest-free financing
- Sectoral and thematic networks
- Dashboard, deliverables, programs and KPIS
2016
Investor and member of the Strategic Committee
Apr 2016
Combo’s mission is a big one: simplify HR for small and medium-sized businesses across Europe - less admin, more human.
Combo already helps 8,000+ independent businesses, franchises and groups in the hospitality, retail, healthcare sectors and beyond. In a nutshell: any business with frontline workers and employee shifts to schedule can use Combo.
From onboarding, to scheduling, to simplifying the monitoring of vacation and sick days, all the way through to one-click payroll prep… Combo helps SMEs to free themselves from administrative tasks and focus on what’s important: its customers and team.
Combo is growing quickly, tripling its revenue year after year and doubling the size of its team. 8,000+ customers and 100,000 employees use the app on a daily basis all over France… and soon in the rest of Europe thanks to its 40 million Series A in early 2022.
2010
Managing Director, EMEA South (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy)
2010
Easynet was a service provider that delivered managed services to national, multinational and global businesses.
It offered a portfolio of network, hosting and unified communications solutions enhanced by a range of ‘over the top’ solutions including security, voice, videoconferencing and application performance management.
In October 2015, Easynet was acquired by Interoute. Interoute is the owner-operator of one of Europes largest networks and a global cloud services platform.
Interoutes full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises and many of the world’s leading service providers, as well as governments and universities. Interoute’s Unified ICT strategy provides solutions for enterprises seeking connectivity and a scalable, secure advanced platform on which they can build their voice, video, computing and data services, as well as service providers in need of high capacity international data transit and infrastructure. With established operations throughout Europe and USA, Interoute also owns and operates 24 connected city networks within Europes major business centres. www.interoute.com
2006
Managing Director Major Enterprise Division
2006
Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed. Powered by amazing people and like-minded partners, Colt is driven by its purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of its customers, wherever, whenever and however they choose.
Since 1992, Colt has set itself apart through its deep commitment to its customers, growing from its heritage in the City of London to a global business spanning 40+ countries, with over 6,000 employees and more than 80 offices around the world. Colt’s customers benefit from expansive digital infrastructure connecting 32,000 buildings across 230 cities, more than 50 Metropolitan Area Networks and 250+ Points of Presence across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North America’s largest business hubs.
Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in the sector. Obsessed with delivering industry-leading customer experience, Colt is guided by its dedication to customer innovation, by its values and its responsibility to its customers, partners, people and the planet.
For more information, please visit www.colt.net
