David has 20 years of practical experience in the areas of executive management, business development, IT, telecommunications, consulting services, marketing and sales.

ENTREPRENEUR & MANAGEMENT

• Starting new businesses from scratch
• Business Plan and Business Model design
• Funds raising
• Recruitment
• Merge & acquisition
• Result-driven, hands-on executive with a significant change management background
• Proven experience managing cross-initiative integration opportunities and dependencies from a change management perspective
• Strong leadership, motivational and organizational skills/potential
• Strong executive presence with good relationship building and interpersonal skills
• Strong personal and professional values
• Very good leadership and communications skills

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Business model design
• Define products and offers, and go to market
• Marketing and Sales management in international and multi-cultural environment
  • Identify customers and competitors
  • Generating leads
  • Advising, drafting and enforcing sales policies and processes follow-up sales activity
  • Customer Relationship Management

FINANCE

• Financial plan design and follow-up
• P&L management
• Risk management
• Merge & acquisition

INTERNATIONAL

• Vast experience in multi-national companies across Europe : France, UK, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg
• Managing and dealing with people scattered in different countries, with multi-cultural aspects
• Fluent French, English, Spanish

IT

• Vast experience in several IT areas (Infrastructure, development, Project Management, Security, Strategy, Governance, ITIL)

In the past I have co-founded an IT company in Paris specialized in CRM (Customer Relationship Management), in which I was in charge of the business development (sales, marketing ans partnership), monitoring projects from an operation and financial perspective, management of consultants and project managers.

Then I was co-founder and the managing partner of the Acadomia group (European leading company in academic support at home) during 6 years, with subsidiaries in Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
I was involved in the business development across Europe and in charge of the Swiss and Polish subsidiaries, with responsibility for the supervision of people scattered in different countries.