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Engineer, Investor & Co-Founder
Jun 2024
At Skill Nova, we believe in empowering individuals to reach their full potential. Our platform equips HR teams with the tools and insights needed to help employees thrive, both personally and professionally. By combining career and life planning, Skill Nova ensures that companies invest in their employees’ long-term success and well-being.
AI-Assisted Development Plans
Skill Nova’s advanced AI analyzes employee skills, performance, and aspirations to create personalized growth plans that support both career and life goals, ensuring a balanced approach to development.
HR-Driven Employee Growth
Trusted by companies that prioritize employee well-being, Skill Nova offers cutting-edge tools to foster continuous development and retention, helping organizations build a future-ready workforce.
AI Upskilling & Life Planning
More than just skill-building, Skill Nova delivers comprehensive career and personal development plans, tailored to align with individual goals, ensuring a holistic approach to growth.
Partnered with Forward-Thinking Organizations
Skill Nova is trusted by organizations that prioritize team growth and personal well-being. We combine traditional HR tools with advanced technology to foster continuous development and sustainable success.
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
***Picked by Apple for Best of 2015***
LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Just set your budget and let the button decide.
- Somewhere to go - the cheapest flight prices from Skyscanner
- Somewhere to stay - the best places to stay from Booking.com
- Something to make you happy - unique handpicked things to do chosen by us
Save your trips, share them with friends and book, all from your iPhone.
Download for iPhone: http://apple.co/1SYmbEG
Visit our website: www.luckytrip.co.uk
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
Freetrade is an app that makes investing simple, and free.
Our award-winning app was voted Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. With over 1,300,000 users, were growing fast.
Get the app: http://freetrade.io
Forum: http://community.freetrade.io
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2025
Associate Professor Entrepreneurship
Jun 2025
The mission of ESSEC Business School, a world school with French roots, is to infuse leadership with meaning in order to prepare leaders ready to address contemporary economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to do so, it produces innovative and relevant knowledge to equip the next generation of leaders with the skills, know-how and savoir-être that will make them truly responsible, inclusive and respectful of the environment. Convinced that knowledge provides a path to freedom - Per scientiam ad libertatem - ESSEC inculcates in its students critical thinking and creativity skills that prepare them to anticipate and address the challenges of an increasingly uncertain world. ESSEC supports students in making their actions both meaningful and impactful by relying on both technology and people. It also seeks to enlighten the actions of businesses and organizations in a world transformed by the new industrial revolution, the environmental crisis, a new world balance and other major societal changes.
Key figures:
79,000 ESSEC Alumni members
4 campuses (Cergy, Paris-La Défense, Singapore and Rabat)
240 partner universities in 50 countries
171 permanent faculty of 37 nationalities
23 learning and research chairs
+1000 partner companies
8,543 students in full-time undergraduate and graduate programs
38,29% international students
+100 nationalities represented
+100 student organizations
5,000 managers in executive education
2024
Engineer, Investor & Co-Founder
Jun 2024
At Skill Nova, we believe in empowering individuals to reach their full potential. Our platform equips HR teams with the tools and insights needed to help employees thrive, both personally and professionally. By combining career and life planning, Skill Nova ensures that companies invest in their employees’ long-term success and well-being.
AI-Assisted Development Plans
Skill Nova’s advanced AI analyzes employee skills, performance, and aspirations to create personalized growth plans that support both career and life goals, ensuring a balanced approach to development.
HR-Driven Employee Growth
Trusted by companies that prioritize employee well-being, Skill Nova offers cutting-edge tools to foster continuous development and retention, helping organizations build a future-ready workforce.
AI Upskilling & Life Planning
More than just skill-building, Skill Nova delivers comprehensive career and personal development plans, tailored to align with individual goals, ensuring a holistic approach to growth.
Partnered with Forward-Thinking Organizations
Skill Nova is trusted by organizations that prioritize team growth and personal well-being. We combine traditional HR tools with advanced technology to foster continuous development and sustainable success.
2022
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
***Picked by Apple for Best of 2015***
LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Just set your budget and let the button decide.
- Somewhere to go - the cheapest flight prices from Skyscanner
- Somewhere to stay - the best places to stay from Booking.com
- Something to make you happy - unique handpicked things to do chosen by us
Save your trips, share them with friends and book, all from your iPhone.
Download for iPhone: http://apple.co/1SYmbEG
Visit our website: www.luckytrip.co.uk
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
Freetrade is an app that makes investing simple, and free.
Our award-winning app was voted Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. With over 1,300,000 users, were growing fast.
Get the app: http://freetrade.io
Forum: http://community.freetrade.io
Associate Lecturer Master Class
Jan 2022
IE is an international institution dedicated to educating business leaders through programs based on our core values of global focus, entrepreneurial spirit and a humanistic approach.
Our 500-strong, international faculty teaches a student body composed of more than 90 nationalities on our Undergraduate (IE University), Master, and Doctorate degrees, and Executive Education programs. Our alumni, now numbering over 40,000, hold management positions in some 100 countries worldwide.
We champion high-quality research coupled with multidisciplinary, integrative education programs. Designed to address market demands, our innovative learning processes comprise a blend of online and onsite formats, making IE a pioneer in international education.
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