At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top France based CFO’ operating in the Internet space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Antoine Maillet-Mezeray
Group CFO of Jumia Group
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About Jumia Group: Jumia Group is an e-commerce ecosystem that provides innovative, convenient, and affordable online goods and services to consumers.
Amaury Hemar
CFO of The Bubbles Company
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About The Bubbles Company: The Bubbles Company is a proximity marketing solution platform.
Amaury Hemar
CFO of The Bubbles Company
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About The Bubbles Company: The Bubbles Company is a proximity marketing solution platform.
Bruno Vaffier
Chief Financial Officer of Webhelp
Bruno Vaffier had been CFO of Worldline, the listed subsidiary of Atos specialising in Payment Services, since February 2014. He was responsible for finance, purchasing, and IT. In this role he participated actively in the carve out and IPO of Worldline in June 2014. Prior to this Bruno had occupied various positions within the Atos Group, which he joined in 2000 as Chief of Staff of the CEO. From 2003 to 2006 he was head of Group Internal Audit, before taking operational management responsibilities at Atos in Spain from 2006 to 2009, where he was in charge of the operations for clients in the manufacturing vertical as well as for the activities of Worldline in Iberia. In 2009 Bruno joined the department overseeing Innovation, Strategy and M&A for the Atos Group, a department which he headed from 2011 until 2014, when he was appointed Worldline CFO. Prior to joining Atos Bruno started his career in investment banking at JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch in London and Paris. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Webhelp: Webhelp is a business process outsourcer (BPO), specialising in customer experience and payment management.
Olivier Vaury
CFO of ManoMano
Olivier Vaury is CFO at Manomano. He also co-founded Partoo. Prior to these, he was finance director in France office of the Amazon for 5 years. He once served Groupe Casino as head of international finance.
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About ManoMano: ManoMano is an online marketplace for DIY, home improvement, and gardening products.
Hervé Faucon
Chief Financial Officer of PrestaShop
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About PrestaShop: PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution that powers more than 250,000 stores worldwide.
Deborah Choate
CFO of Sequans Communications
Deborah Choate joined Sequans in 2007, before which she was chief financial officer at Esmertec AG and Wavecom SA and vice president of finance at Platinum Equity. Earlier in her career, she was an audit partner with Ernst & Young. Deborah has over 25 years of experience in management, finance and accounting, including over 10 years working with technology companies, in particular communications hardware, software, and services.
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About Sequans Communications: Sequans Communications is a provider of single-mode 4G LTE semiconductor solutions.
Nicolas Jaeger
CFO of Iliad
Nicolas Jaeger is Chief Financial Officer of the Iliad Group. He has worked with Iliad since 2007, supporting its development as Head of Investor Relations and then Group Treasurer. Before joining Iliad, Nicolas worked for five years at Calyon (Crédit Agricole Group) as a Credit Analyst and then Relationship Manager in charge of the TMT sector. He is a graduate of the EDHEC Business School and holds a Master’s degree in finance from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
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About Iliad: Iliad SA, through its subsidiaries, provides Internet access and telecommunication services in France.
Benoit Fouilland
Chief Financial Officer & Directeur Général Délégué of Criteo
Benoît joined Criteo in March 2012 from SAP where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He was previously the Chief Financial Officer of Business Objects,after having held successfully several finance executive positions in the US and in Europe at Business Objects. Prior to joining Business Objects, Fouilland worked at British Telecom, initially in the Corporate Development team and later as Vice President venture operations and Chief Financial Officer for Asia Pacific. He also worked at Vivendi and Price Waterhouse at the beginning of his career. He has worked and lived in Europe, Asia and the US. Benoit Fouilland holds a masters degree in business administration from INSEAD, a post graduate degree in Finance (DESS) from Université Paris Dauphine and a diploma from the ESLSCA Graduate School of Business in Paris.
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About Criteo: Criteo is a global technology company that serves personalized online display advertisements to consumers on behalf of e-commerce companies.
Dmitri Pigoulevski
CFO of Ekinops
Dmitri has an extensive financial management and operational leadership experience in banking, industrial and services sectors. Prior to EKINOPS he provided M&A consultancy services to companies in France and launched an e-commerce company in Eastern Europe. He also served as Director of Finance with Agrogeneration, a start-up company specialized in agricultural production, and held various financial and strategy management positions with Trader Media East and Valeo in France. He started his career with banking industry in Eastern Europe where he was responsible to build-up treasury operations. Dmitri holds a MS in Finance and Accounting and he is an MBA from HEC School of Management. Dmitri is Certified Accountant and member of the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
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About Ekinops: Ekinops is a provider of optical transport solutions for service providers and private networks.
Justine Gilbert
Chief Financial Officer of Chefclub
Justine Gilbert is the Chief Financial Officer at Chefclub.
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About Chefclub: Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows and broadcasts cooking recipes on television and the internet.
Frank Dufour
Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Lita.co
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About Lita.co: LITA.co is the first impact investing platform that connects individuals and social entrepreneurs.
Delphine de la Brosse
CFO of Novolyze
Graduate from ESSEC Bussiness School Paris, Delphine has acquired more than 20 years of experience in finance, including 10 years as Financial and Administrative Manager in multinational companies such as UTC Aerospace Systems or YSL Beauté. Within Novolyze, she is in charge of the administrative and financial department. She is also the Human Resources Manager. Delphine speaks French and English.
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About Novolyze: Novolyze provides revolutionary solutions for food safety, that make the industry save time and money while making safer food.
Richard Le Piouffe
CFO of Actility
Richard leads our accounting and finance department. Prior to joining the team, he was a senior Manager of the EY Transaction Services practice in Paris, having worked at EY for 12 years. He started his career as an auditor in 2005, and conducted statutory audits of family-owned and listed companies, and consulting assignments in several countries. From 2010, Richard focused on transaction services, and led numerous buy- and sell-side due diligence reviews for both corporate clients and private equity companies. Richard holds a master’s degree from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
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About Actility: Actility provides smart energy management, machine-to-machine(M2M) and Internet of things(IoT) services.
Mohamed Tazi
Co-Founder and CFO of Gymlib
Mohamed Tazi is the Co-Founder and CFO at Gymlib.
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About Gymlib: Gymlib is a French startup that aggregate thousands of gyms to offer sports and wellbeing service for companies and their employees
Sebastien Preel
Chief Financial Officer of Gymlib
Sébastien graduated with a Master’s degree in Finance from Dauphine (Paris) in 2005, following his studies at ESC Bordeaux. He first discovered the medical sector during his first experience before being attracted by the dynamism and challenges of young companies. After having participated in the growth and then the sale of an e-commerce startup, he joined BlaBlaCar in 2012 as CFO and supported his explosive international expansion (from 3 to 22 countries) and participated actively in fundraising (300 million euros). While specialized in the world of startups, he became an external consultant to guide many companies in their hyper-growth issues. Seduced by the ambition and potential of Yatedo, he decided to join the adventure in 2019 as Chief Growth Officer.
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About Gymlib, Yatedo: Gymlib is a French startup that aggregate thousands of gyms to offer sports and wellbeing service for companies and their employees
Didier Sroussi
CFO of StarChip
Didier Sroussi has more than 28 years of experience in the Semiconductor management. He has occupied high level positions in the areas of Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance at companies such as IBM, STMicroelectronics, Atmel and Inside Secure. His wide experience puts him in the right position to keep a strong customer orientation while targeting company cost control and profitability. Didier holds a Master’s degree in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Marseille and a MBA from IAE Aix en Provence.
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About StarChip: StarChip is a dynamic semiconductor company.
Christophe David
CFO of DomRaider
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About DomRaider: Conquer the future through blockchain. We aim at developing innovative solutions.
Guillaume Tastet
CFO of Prixtel
Guillaume Tastet is the CFO of Prixtel.
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About Prixtel: Prixtel is a French telephone operator that offers for fixed line, mobile, nomadic Internet and ADSL for individuals and professionals.
Guillaume Tastet
CFO of Prixtel
Guillaume Tastet is the CFO of Prixtel.
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About Prixtel: Prixtel is a French telephone operator that offers for fixed line, mobile, nomadic Internet and ADSL for individuals and professionals.
Vincent Quelven
Chief Financial Officer of iRaiser
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About iRaiser: iRaiser is a SaaS vendor for nonprofits providing online fundraising solutions.
Laurent Alias
Chief Financial Officer of Neotys
Laurent Alias has over 15 years of financial and accounting experience in Small and Medium sized companies, specifically start-ups. A graduate from the University of Nice with a Master in Finance, Laurent began his career by working for 5 years in Audit handling international companies portfolios in many areas such as Finance, Accounting, Business plan, HR, Legal, Taxes. He started his career in the Software industry with Realviz, a 3D Start-up Company, in 2000. As CFO, he was in charge of setting up and managing the company’s Accounting & Finance department and its subsidiaries around the world. As part of executive management, Laurent was involved in strategic decisions and helped develop and grow the e-shop business which accounted for 50% of the company revenue. In addition, Laurent also managed several funds rising and participated in the buyout of the company by Autodesk Software Inc. in 2008. He eventually continued to play a central role during the integration acquisition process helping the buyer with a smooth transition. Laurent joined Neotys Company in 2011 as Chief Financial Officer.
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About Neotys: Neotys is a innovator in load testing and performance monitoring solutions for Web and Mobile applications.
Didier Louedec
CFO of QOS Energy
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About QOS Energy: QOS Energy is a cloud-based data intelligence platform designed to drive up the performance of renewable plants and storage facilities.
Marc Wenisch
CFO of Mobibase
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About Mobibase: Mobibase is engaged in publishing television and video on demand channels for internet-connected devices.
Louis-Philippe Melchior
Chief Financial Officer of Bonitasoft
As Chief Financial Officer, Louis-Philippe leads the finance, administration and HR teams. He was previously Finance Manager at Neolane (acquired by Adobe in 2013), after holding the position of financial auditor at Grant Thornton. Louis-Philippe holds a Master’s degree in Audit and Management Control from ESG Paris.
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About Bonitasoft: Fully supports digital operations & IT modernization with Bonita, an open-source & extensible platform for business process automation.