Boardroom Media (CFO News)
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 Software 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.
Fréderic Tcherneian
Chief Financial Officer of Questel
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About Questel: Questel specializes in intellectual property and innovation management solutions.
Pascal Daloz
CFO of Dassault Systemes
Pascal Daloz is Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Market Development at Dassault Systèmes. He has over ten years of experience in strategy and previously worked for investment banking and consulting firms, including four years at Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group, where he served as a senior technology analyst, and five years at Arthur D. Little, where he was a senior consultant and member of Arthur D. Little’s Technology Innovation Management team. He joined Dassault Systèmes in 2001 to develop the company’s presence in PLM markets as Research & Development Director in charge of business development, and was nominated Vice President of Strategy and Business Development in 2003.
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About Dassault Systemes, Dassault Systemes: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
Marie Best
CFO of Mirakl
Marie joined Mirakl’s team as VP Finance. Prior to Mirakl, Marie worked for Fnac Darty, which leverages the marketplace business model and is one of Europe’s most innovative retailers. At Fnac Darty, Marie held several roles including CFO for Switzerland and Director of Financial Reporting for France. Earlier in her career, Marie spent 10 years at Deloitte focused on financial audits, financial operations, acquisitions and IPOs.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Jean Meillon
CFO of Dronisos – drone shows
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About Dronisos – drone shows: Dronisos provides indoor or outdoor drone light shows.
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.
Etienne Boutan
Co-Founder and CFO of Heex Technologies
Graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Administration (Finance and Economics) from the International University of Monaco, I am passionate about investment management, tech, and entrepreneurship. After a short basketball career playing in both France and Spain, I went back to college in the United States where I discovered the vibrant economy of California and the Silicon Valley. I further pursued my studies in Monaco where I accumulated experiences in venture capital and wealth management. I recently started my entrepreneurial journey with Heex Technologies and Deimos Capital.
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About Deimos Capital, Heex Technologies: Smart Data for AI development.
Olivier Laroche
Chief Financial Officer of Tinubu Square
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About Tinubu Square: Tinubu Square develops trade credit management solutions for corporate customers, receivables, financing institutions, and credit insurers.
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.
Geoffroy Willaume
Co-Founder and CFO of BuyCo
Geoffroy Willaume is the co-founder and CFO at BuyCo. Prior to co-founding BuyCo, Geoffroy served as the VP of development and innovation at CMA CGM. He also served as the Group CFO of Frans Bonhomme.
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About BuyCo: BuyCo is a collaborative SaaS platform enabling exporters and importers to plan, execute & track their maritime container shipments
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.
Philippe Mechanick
CFO of Scality
Philippe Mechanick has over 30 years of experience in finance,mostly working within the high technology industry.He is the chief financial officer of [Scality](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/scality#/entity), a venture-backed software company that solves problems associated with large-scale storage management and infrastructure. Mechanick’s career has included positions at Ernst & Young, Unisys, and Goal Systems International, where he held the role of international finance director. He also served Sapiens International Corporation, Nat Systems, PolySpace Technologies, Nemoptic, and Volubill, holding positions as chief financial officer. Previously, he held senior finance roles at UB Networks. Mechanick obtained his bachelor’s degree from Rouen Business School.
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About Scality: Scality is a venture-backed software company that solves problems associated with large-scale storage management and infrastructure.
Amaury Rosset
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Wallix
With responsibility for administration and finance, Amaury Rosset has extensive experience in managing companies of varying sizes. Before joining Wallix, he worked for Hachette Filipacchi Medias from 1995 to 1999 as Management Controller, Asia-Pacific Project Manager (based in Hong Kong) and then Publishing Director for the Group’s Hong Kong and Chinese editions. Since 2000, he has helped to set up and develop a multimedia communications agency, XLAB. Amaury Rosset holds degrees in Economics and Management (ESCMP).
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About Wallix: Wallix is a software company providing cyber security solutions.
Renaud Bonnevialle
CFO of Vulog
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About Vulog: Vulog builds technology solutions that power the most successful shared mobility businesses in the world.
Matthieu Andre
CFO of Yseop
Matthieu André joined Yseop as CFO in June 2018, after working as Financial Controller at Filorga. Previously, he worked in Audit and Transaction Services at KPMG and Grant Thornton, Decathlon and EY so bring considerable and wide-ranging experience to the Yseop team. Matthieu graduated from IESEG School of Management.
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About Yseop: No-Code Intelligent Report Automation using Natural Language Generation
Christophe Sarlot
Chief Financial Officer of Wildmoka
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About Wildmoka: Wildmoka is a provider of cloud solutions for live video edition.
Philippe Gangneux
Chief Financial Officer of Sidetrade
Philippe Gangneux is a graduate of the ISG business school in France and also holds a Master’s degree in mergers and acquisitions. Over the past 20 years, he has held a variety of financial management positions within several international, high-growth information technology companies. As Group CFO, he is responsible for global finance and administration operations and has set up and implemented a financial strategy to support Sidetrade growth and development. Philippe is therefore involved in steering the company’s vision and managing its day-to-day operations – both of which are key factors for the Group’s development and success.
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About Sidetrade: Sidetrade’s AI-powered Order-to-Cash Platform helps companies improve revenue, grow profitability and optimize working capital
Thibault de Bouville
CFO of Alteia
Thibault de Bouville, CFO of Cameleon Software: Indeed, a public bid was launched by the Services Group is a US company based in Texas, the Cameleon group. It is an offer that will be made in cash and which rests on two main rationales, a geographical complementarity and a product complementarity. Pros is very present in the United States, little present in Europe, they are offered an important base in Europe.
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About Alteia, Delair: Alteia is an AI-driven platform that offers a suite of tools to enable digital transformation for enterprise asset management.
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.
Stephanie Coisman Marron
Chief Financial Officer of Conztanz
After graduating from the EDHEC business school and passing the chartered accountancy diploma, she spent 12 years as an auditor for KPMG and financial controller for VIVENDI subsidiaries in Paris. She left Paris to take larger responsibilities in smaller businesses. She joined Conztanz in June 2014 and today manages the Human Resource, Legal and Finance sections.
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About Conztanz: Conztanz is an expert company in data & airline IT providing consulting and a cloud-based agility platform.
Georges Destriau
Chief Financial Officer of DreamQuark
Georges brings his 20+ years expertise of leading finance and development in global, complex, intercultural and fast changing envrionments to support DreamQuark’s growth strategy, including people management. In addition to skiing with the family, he especially enjoyed when living in Switzerland, Georges has a strong interest in geopolitics.
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About DreamQuark: DreamQuark is a product that helps banks, insurance companies, and asset management firms with all of their artificial intelligence needs.
Reine Atta
CFO of Adents
Before joining Adents, Reine acquired extensive experience in management control, internal auditing, financing and cash-flow management. With an MBA in Finance, she works at GE Healthcare as Junior Finance Business Analyst. Within the team of financial analysis, Reine works in a process for the simplification and improvement of the reporting process. Reine continued gaining experience in start-ups as Comptroller at My Major Company. Later, while working as administrative and financial manager, she participated in strategic planning while supervising Finance teams and its different external stakeholders (auditors, accountants, etc.).
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About Adents: Adents is a provider of premier serialization solutions for unique product identification and traceability.
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.
Matthieu Plessis
CFO of Voluntis
Matthieu has 25 years of experience in various finance positions in the pharmaceutical, telecom and IT industries. Prior to joining Voluntis, he was CFO of eFront, a global financial software vendor. In this position, he successfully supported the group’s rapid growth as well as it’s finance and M&A operations. Previously, he worked for Glaxo and SFR-Cegetel. He is a graduate of ESSCA management school.
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About Voluntis: Voluntis is a healthcare-related software company specialized in patient relationship management.
Thomas Robert
CFO of Artifakt
Former accountant… and pastry chef. Numbers are his best friends.
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About Artifakt: Artifakt is a developer of cloud application tool designed to help build smarter, faster and better manage all custom business applications.
Thomas Robert
CFO of Artifakt
Former accountant… and pastry chef. Numbers are his best friends.
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About Artifakt: Artifakt is a developer of cloud application tool designed to help build smarter, faster and better manage all custom business applications.
Guillaume Fortune
Group CFO of Qosmos
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About Enea, Qosmos: Qosmos provides software and hardware platforms that identify and extract information traveling through networks.
Bertrand Mougnaud
Chief Financial Officer of Hawk by TabMo
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About Hawk by TabMo: Hawk by TabMo goes one for all : Omnichannel programmatic platform for agencies and advertisers.
Olivier Eisenzimmer
CFO of Mindsay
Olivier Eisenzimmer is the CFO at Destygo.
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About Mindsay: Mindsay enables companies to provide simple and efficient customer interactions through Conversational AI.
Laurène Maerten
Chief Financial Officer of Unistellar
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About Unistellar: Unistellar is an incredibly powerful and accurate backyard telescope.
Aurélie Brun
CFO of Saagie
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About Saagie: Saagie provides a ready to go DataOps Orchestrator.
Anne Gabrot
Chief Financial Officer of Kalray
Anne has over 20 years’ experience in finance, administration, technology licensing and fundraising. As the former CFO of Volubill, a Grenoble based telecom company, she took the company from a start-up with seven employees to an international corporation of over 170 with offices around the globe, as well as managing technology and licensing contracts and raising €25M in fundraising. Anne also worked as the Finance Director at EHPT EMEA, a venture between HP and Ericsson, and 6 years with the Benetton Group, launching the brand in France. Anne received her Masters in Business Administration from the Essec Business School in Paris, specializing in Finance and Law.
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About Kalray: Kalray is a fabless semiconductor company, pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems.
Cyril Malher
CFO of Inetum
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About Inetum: Inetum is a digital service and solution.
Vincent Quelven
Chief Financial Officer of iRaiser
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About iRaiser: iRaiser is a SaaS vendor for nonprofits providing online fundraising solutions.
Delphine Peudennier
Chief Financial Officer of InterCloud
A Graduate from Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Delphine started her career in 1997 as a Management Controller. She held since then a number of administrative and financial executive positions for about 15 years. After six years with Weborama, a web advertising company, she spent 3 years serving Balyo, a forklift «robotizing» leader, and managed to get the company listed on Euronext in 2017. At InterCloud Delphine is in charge of all the financial aspects of the company.
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About InterCloud: InterCloud is the European leader of Software-Defined Cloud Interconnection (SDCI)
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.
Mehdi Houkari
Chief Financial Officer of Easiware
Mehdi Houkari is the CFO at easiware.
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About Easiware: Easiware is a multi-channel application processing software to enhance customer knowledge.
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.
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.
Anton Komyza
CFO of ProovStation
After 6 years in corporate finance & commercial banking, I joined ProovStation as a Chief Financial Officer to take the lead over financial strategy, fund raising and co-management of other strategic missions with an objective to accelerate the product launch and put in place a robust long-term business plan. Previously, working at Accenture as Corporate Finance Advisor and as a Business Relationship Manager at HSBC, may main areas of expertise were business plans, commercial lending, financial analysis and corporate finance / financing of acquisitions. – Fluent in French, English and Russian – CFA Charterholder since 2018
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About ProovStation: ProovStation is an automated drive-through bay which detects and analyses vehicle damages.
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.
Marie Hamard
CFO of Cenareo
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About Cenareo: Cenareo is a highly innovative company that develops intuitive and collaborative solutions for managing digital signage in SaaS mode.
Stephane RIGAUT
CFO of CORE FOR TECH
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About CORE FOR TECH: CORE for Tech is the first ever Drowsy driving prevention solution thanks to Bio-feedback expertise.
Véronique Coulmann
Chief Financial Officer of Anevia
Before joining Ipanema, Veronique spent most of her career at Amdahl (mainframe manufacturer who got acquired by Fujitsu) . During her 10 years at Amdahl, she gained a very broad experience in the different finance functions together with a business understanding through the following responsibilities : bid desk management, sales administration manager, european controller and finance director . Veronique started her education in France where she graduated from the business school : ESCEM of Poiiters-Tours and completed there her accounting graduation with the D.E.S.C.F. She decided then to continue her education in the USA where she got an MBA from Seattle University and also got her C.P.A.
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About Anevia, Ipanema Technologies: Anevia is an OTT and IPTV software provider.
Frederic Crampe
Founder, Co-CEO & CFO of BeeBryte
Frédéric has a MSc. & MEng. from SUPAERO, an MBA from INSEAD and is a Certified Energy Manager. Fred started working in the US at Caltech / NASA JPL where he developed an award-winning software to study Climate Change. The rest of his career has been devoted to work in the Cleantech industry with roles ranging from sales, business development, consulting, strategy, project finance and M&A to general management. Fred is an investor and serial entrepreneur. Until recently, he was CEO of ReEx Capital Asia, a leading clean energy investment banking boutique that he founded in Singapore in 2006. Fred is on the Board of several companies. Some of the companies that Fred has advised include: E.ON, Engie, REC Solar, BNP Paribas, United Nations and the Asian Development Bank. Fred has an extensive network of contacts in the US, Europe and Asia.
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About BeeBryte: Predictive HVAC Control Software for Smarter Buildings & Factories
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%.
Michael Schmidt
CFO of Dacos Software
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About Dacos Software: Dacos Software develops analysis and simulation systems for the retail industry, helping them manage pricing and promotional strategies.
Michael Schmidt
CFO of Dacos Software
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About Dacos Software: Dacos Software develops analysis and simulation systems for the retail industry, helping them manage pricing and promotional strategies.
David Demetrius
CFO of Trustelem
David Demetrius is Trustelem’s CFO. He is a fully qualified accountant and holds a Doctorate of Business Administration, with considerable experience in the management of and consultancy to companies (from SMEs to large multinationals) throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, USA and South East Asia. He has knowledge of a wide variety of industries including Information Technology, Telecommunications, Banking, Oil & Gas and Environmental Management.
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About Trustelem: Trustelem is the Europe-based Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) solution dedicated to SaaS and internal applications security.
