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 Information Technology 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.
Simone Pugliese
CFO & COO of Kayrros
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
Marie Odile Lavenant
CFO of Voltalia
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About Voltalia: Voltalia is a renewables energy developer in France.

Manuel Michel
Chief Financial Officer of Neoxam
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About Neoxam: Neoxam designs and creates professional software for asset managers.
Thibault Mignonac
CFO of Prima Solutions
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About Prima Solutions: Prima Solutions is a global InsureTech group in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific that designs software.
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.
Philippe Sanchez
CFO of Exclusive Group
Philippe joined Exclusive Group in 2007 and brings with him over 20 years’ experience in international finance and business management. His career includes roles as International Management Controller for a large IT consumables division as well as a Chief Financial Officer position with European telecoms operator Tradingcom Europe. Philippe holds a post-graduate degree in International Trade.
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About Exclusive Group: Exclusive Group is the value-added services and technologies (VAST) group.
Xavier Seres
Chief Financial Officer of Clever Connect
Xavier Seres is the Chief Financial Officer at CleverConnect.
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About Clever Connect: Clever Connect is a HR tech startup.

Alexandre Rerolle
Group CFO of CAST Software
Alexandre Rerolle is the Chief Financial Officer at CAST. Alexandre is responsible for overseeing all of Finance & Administration for CAST and its subsidiaries. Prior to CAST, Alexandre held various roles in controlling and finance moving up to the CFO position in one of the affiliates of the logistics division of Bolloré Group, with branches across France, Japan, Korea, China, and the USA. A recent addition to the team, Alexandre brings a high level of discipline and is very well aligned to CAST core values of transparency and collegiality. Alexandre’s background is in the sciences and he holds a Master’s in Economics from Paris Dauphine University.
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About CAST Software: Software Intelligence to help digital leaders see the truth and deliver resilient, responsive, safe and secure software.
Laurent Favre
Chief Financial Officer of LINKBYNET
Laurent Favre is the Chief Financial Officer at LINKBYNET.
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About LINKBYNET: LINKBYNET offers business outsourcing, cloud services, web electronic business and information systems.
Laurent Bobenrieth
Chief Financial Officer of Camusat Group
Laurent Bobenrieth is a chief financial officer at Camusat.
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About Camusat Group: Camusat designs, builds, manages, and powers telecom infrastructures.
Pascale d’Arbonneau
Chief Financial Officer of CARMAT
A graduate of the ESCP Europe business school, Pascale d’Arbonneau is a member of the Association nationale des directeurs financiers et de contrôle de gestion, (DFCG, the French association of financial and management control managers) and a lecturer at Paris Diderot University. Before joining CARMAT, Pascale d’Arbonneau was Executive Director of the Econocom International B.V. (EIBV) family office. She began her career in 1989 as an auditor at Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC) before entering the pharmaceutical industry as Head of Finance & IT France at Johnson & Johnson – MSD (1995-1999). She spent most of her career (1999-2016) at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). She joined as Director, Head of Controlling & Finance Partnering, France at GlaxoWellcome, just before its merger with SmithKline Beecham, managing a team of 20 people working on the combination of the two companies. She then held a number of senior positions within the Group (Vice President & Finance Controller, Pharma Europe from 2006 to 2010, Vice President & Area Finance Director, Western Europe from 2010 to 2014) before becoming Vice President Compliance and Control Integration for all business units worldwide.
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About CARMAT: CARMAT is a medtech company, offering biocompatible, auto-regulated total artificial hearts as close as possible to the human heart.
Rodolphe Cadio
Group CFO & Board Member of The Blockchain Group
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About Clever Cloud, The Blockchain Group: The Blockchain Group is an IT company specializing in blockchain & decentralized technology for all business sectors.
Camille de Belot
CFO of Bird Office
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About Bird Office: Bird Office helps companies find the ideal venue for all of their corporate events.
Nicolas Sanch
Chief Financial Officer of Everoad by sennder
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About Everoad by sennder: Europe’s #1 digital road freight-forwarder.
Jérémie Rendolet
CFO of METRON
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About METRON: METRON is a foundation stone using artificial intelligence based on Energy Data and ontologies.
Sebastien Francois
CFO of LumApps
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About LumApps: LumApps is a social, mobile, and smart intranet to connect and engage all employees in a central hub.
Jordan zeitoun
Co-Founder & CFO of Greenmetrics
Jordan zeitoun is an specialized in corporate financing structuring, brand development strategy as well as in strategic orientations and arbitrations of various portfolios of assets.
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About Greenmetrics: Greenmetrics is a digital pollution optimization platform that helps businesses reduce the environmental impacts of their digital activity.

Ethan Beardsley
CMO and CFO of Opencell Software
Ethan Beardsley– COO & Co-Founder Ethan has over 25 years of experience in finance, business development and marketing in large companies and startups in the IT and media sector. Prior to starting several digital media startups, he spent ten years at Disney in senior finance and business development roles, most recently as VP Business Development for Southern Europe. An American national, he holds a BA in English Literature from Wesleyan University and is a graduate in Finance & Economics from Sciences Po in Paris.
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About Opencell Software: Opencell is an agile monetization platform that lets you manage your customer lifecycle from start to finish on a single platform.
Patrick Bataillard
Chief Financial Officer of Edenred
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About Edenred: Edenred is a leading services and payments platform and the everyday companion for people at work
Anne-Sophie Molis
Chief Financial Officer of Innovacom
Anne-Sophie Molis is Financial Controller at Innovacom.
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About Innovacom: Innovacom is a Paris-based venture capital firm that focuses on investments in disruptive technologies serving digital transformation.
Aurélie Brun
CFO of Saagie
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About Saagie: Saagie provides a ready to go DataOps Orchestrator.
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.
Cyril Malher
CFO of Inetum
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About Inetum: Inetum is a digital service and solution.
Valentin Delahaye
Co-Founder & CFO of Enovap
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About Enovap: Enovap is a intelligent dual-tank e-cigarette, designed and built to help smokers and vapers get full control of their nicotine intake.
Fabrice Kilfiger
Chief Financial Officer of Medicrea
Fabrice Kilfiger is the chief financial officer at Medicrea.
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About Medicrea: Medicrea is a fully-dedicated spinal implant company focused on introducing reliable and innovative technologies to the global marketplace.
Marie Braun
CFO of Vekia
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About Vekia: Vekia designs solutions for supply chain management using the power of artificial intelligence algorithms.
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.
Pierric de Bienassis
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer of Kineis
Pierric de Bienassis is the Chief Financial & Administrative Officer at Kineis.
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About Kineis: Kineis is offers tomorrow’s IoT network connectivity.
Benoit Jacheet
Chief Financial Officer of NAVYA
Benoit Jacheet is the Chief Financial Officer at NAVYA.
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About NAVYA: NAVYA is a leading French name in the autonomous vehicle market and in smart shared mobility solutions.

Laurent CHEVET
Co-Founder and CFO of ACUTENZ
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About ACUTENZ, CONSULTAKE, CONSULTAKE GROUP: Contract and Vendor Management SAAS Platform using a predictive business technology
Laurent Garré
Chief Financial Officer of Anatole
Laurent has extensive experience in the IT & Telecom industry, in companies of all sizes. He is bringing his financial expertise to Anatole lean organisation balancing operational efficiency and growth plans. Previous experience: Lenovo France as CFO, IBM France, Mobile Distillery Euromed Master’s, HEC Executive
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About Anatole: Anatole offers fleet manager solutions that enable customers to manage their telecoms fleet and reduce costs by 5 to 40%.