Antoine is a product manager consultant for early-stage startups in the web3 and FinTech industry. His expertise lies in helping startups build user-centric MVPs and discover their market fit by developing strategic products.
With 4 years of experience in early-stage startups, Antoine developed an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the challenges related to building an MVP and finding market-fit. Previously at Quadency he worked with the engineering & founders team to scale the company from 11k users to 100k+ users using only product-led growth. Currently, Antoine works with startups across multiple industries to help them build better MVPs by bringing them the product management toolkit.
Antoine will be able to guide you through any product-related challenge you're facing.
A passionate entrepreneur for over 15 years, I have developed several companies in the BtoC and BtoB markets. I have completed 2 significant exits. Today, I'm an investor in start-up projects. I know perfectly well the expectations of Angels Investors and VCs, and have developed a large network of professionals and investors. My aim is to share my rich experience of accompanying dozens of Stratups from ideation through product-market-fit, go-to-market and sales scaling strategies to the B-series. I'm personally passionate about tech issues.
AI Integration: I am constantly looking to integrate artificial intelligence solutions to automate processes, enhance efficiency, and create competitive advantages for the startups I work with. I'm an optimist with the ambition to make things happen.
Marie-Lou is an entrepreneur and growth marketing expert with 10 years experience at Canal+, Banque Populaire, ONU, Meero and various startups. She has built media and communities of several thousand people. She can guide you in shaping your marketing strategy, building brand awareness, creating media and communities, and boosting sales.
She has been coaching startups incubated at Station F for 2 years in this 30-minute format, and was voted one of her incubator's favorite coaches for her ultra-concrete advices and ROI-oriented approach.
Anass Zekri is an accomplished sales professional with a diverse background in sales, business development, and coaching. During his four years at Spendesk, he played a pivotal role in expanding into the IBERIA market, scaling from 0$ to 1M$ ARR. Anass also worked as a consultant for startups, focusing on SaaS and e-commerce ventures, providing strategic guidance in go-to-market planning and team structure & organisation.
His passion for coaching led him to join Mantra (ex: Growthmakers) as a sales coach, where he has helped over 30 sales professionals enhance their strategies and skills. Currently, Anass serves as the Head of Sales at Pemo, a prominent fintech solution based in Dubai. In this role, he leads go-to-market strategies, builds high-performing teams, and prepares for expansion across the Middle East.
Anass's expertise in go-to-market strategies, team building, and revenue generation has significantly contributed to the success of numerous companies. His commitment to empowering others and delivering results makes him an invaluable asset to any organization.
Juliette has been a Growth Marketing specialist for 7 years, including 4 in a challenging hyper-growth environment at Spendesk (26th French Unicorn). From the start until the series D fundraising, she set up the French Growth Marketing strategy, a market that has since generated the most revenue.
For the past 2 years, she has been helping companies create and optimize their marketing strategies. She also enjoys being a trainer and speaker on all topics related to Growth Marketing.
Overall, Juliette can help you with your 360° marketing strategy to help you scale. Let's talk about branding, personas, inbound marketing, growth hacking, social selling, SEO, data, nurturing, events, product marketing, recruitment, etc.
She is also very organized, always looking for ways to be more productive, and will share with you all of her templates and processes so you can easily replicate them in your company!
Guillaume is here to help you succeed in your CEO mission. Having experience in different industries (Consulting, Fintech, B2B SaaS), he has experienced the different stages of scaling and will be a trusted partner to help you focus on what really matters. His current job as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Spendesk will give you the opportunity to get very specific answers to your questions.
In more than 4 years at Spendesk, Guillaume has contributed to grow the team from 20 people to 700 and raised more than 250m€ to support the growth of the company (x50 in ARR).
Guillaume will advise you on the CEO priorities which are splitted into five buckets :
1) building your leadership team (hire, onboard, manage)
2) building the company strategy (long-term) and execution plan (short-term)
3) managing internal & external communication
4) managing investor relation
5) Running strategic projects
Baptiste Forestier holds a Master's degree in Business and Banking Law, and has more than 8 years of experience within regulated fintechs. He began his career as Head of KYC & Operational Compliance at Lemon Way, a payment specialist for marketplaces.
In 2019, he started at Spendesk, now the 26th French unicorn, as Head of Compliance. In particular, he helped obtain a payment institution license from the ACPR (French regulator) and also contributed to the opening of its market in the United States.
He recently joined Hero, a booming B2B BNPL start-up, as their new Head of Compliance.
Thomas Le Cun is an experienced partnerships and revenue strategist with 8 years of experience in successfully building and managing teams or programs across Europe. He has worked in both scale-ups and large corporations, providing vision and guidance for partnerships functions in different stages.
He has also defined and executed multiple revenue strategic initiatives including sales organization structure, market segmentation, pricing and packaging, and partnerships roadmap. With his expertise in partnerships and revenue strategy, Thomas can provide valuable insights and guidance to any company looking to grow their partnerships function or revenue streams in just 30 minutes
Alexandre is a Product guy with 10 years of experience in Product Design, Product Management, Branding and Copywriting. Over the years, he has created impactful design solutions for a variety of industries (consumer app, e-commerce, SaaS, Fintech) for thousands of daily users.
He has co-founded Vybe (CPO), a very well known neobank for Gen Z (13-25y) for 3 years with more than +200 000 App downloads (n°1 AppStore - 3 days) / 40 000 cardholders & amazing ⭐️ 4,7 / 5 rating on Trustpilot.
Previously, Alexandre was Head of Design at Cafeyn (« Netflix » for Press readers). His experience as a senior designer & product manager give him a unique perspective on the craft.
Talk to Alex especially if you need help on: « Roasting » a existing product on UI or UX design, Hiring & Empowering a product design team, Building a strong design & product delivery culture, Building the perfect deck investor to raise money
Alexis is an expert in enterprise application development with 30 years of experience. He acted as CTO in several startups during the last 20 years, focusing on building products and structuring teams. In his current position as iObeya CTO, he created the technology from scratch and grew his team from 2 to 80 people. He lead the change from an on-premise application to a cloud-centric SaaS built using DevOps, lean and agile methodology, and data-driven decisions. His technical expertise is architecture, server development (mostly Java), Database, and infrastructure as code. Alexis has experience in various industries (automotive, development tools, mapping, and visual management).
Laurent is the Chief Product Officer of Koober. His 8 years of experience building tech products wearing many hats give him a unique perspective on the craft.
He has worked as a software engineer, product manager, product designer, and head of design, in-house and freelance.
He has built a variety of products: consumer and B2B SaaS and marketplaces, eCommerce and consumer mobile.
Talk to Laurent especially if you need help on:
- Product management in a pre-Product-Market-Fit environment
- Empowering a product team
- Product design issues of any kind
- Hiring designers and product managers
Maxime is an expert in MVP with 10 years of experience. He has developed his experience through multiple startups to scale-ups, the last one Qonto as 2nd tech employee to develop the Product from zero to their proper core banking system.
He knows which decisions and tradeoffs make to build a functional and scalable product from zero. Still working at Qonto in Tech Lead position, he spends his energy on internal toolings that are scalable for more than 800+ Ops which need to be efficient to deliver the best support to their customers and help Ops departments to be efficient in daily operations. With more than 6 years XP in a company with hypergrowth environment, Maxime knows problematic of building efficient management in a scale-up company
Yannick is an expert in revenue operations, sales automations and global productivity enhancements. After working in heavy industry, consulting and scale-ups he can help you build a 6-month roadmap to gain up to 40% of productivity in your processes. Depending on your company's size and available profiles you'll be able to hire less and scale better just by discovering the mindset of business operations and the wide range of tools that empower what we do.
I previously worked for Ankorstore, scaling tools and processes for HR, finance, sales and customer service from 50 employees to hundreds, migrating from Hubspot to Salesforce and so many other topics. I joined a new scale-up where I continue to work in Business Operations, adding Business Intelligence and similar topics to my scope.
Paolo is an expert in data with 10 years of experience building and growing international data teams, as the first data hire in Criteo Italy and later charged with building Swile data function from scratch
He has a track record of creating value through analytics, data science, and data products that have generated 15M€ in revenue
Focused on democratizing data access and enable self-service capabilities across departments to maximize impact of data
He can help you in building out your data function and in finding ways to maximize value from data across your organization
Romain is a process builders since 7 years. He started at Spendesk and has contributed to make it a unicorn.
From Head of Sales to Directors of Operations and Enablements at Spendesk. He is today also an advisor and actives investors who coach CEO.
He can help you on defining the sales organization your company needs, building your data stack but also rethinking your revenue generation process from A to Z or also help you hiring the future talent you need.
Anaël is an expert in Backend Software Engineering with 7 years of experience!
Having experience in different industries like E-Commerce, institutional or Fintech projects he knows how to build solid software that will support your business but always keeps pragmatism in mind. He worked with different technologies such as Typescript, NodeJS, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Platform.sh, CI/CD.
He worked in different fields like performance, architecture, deployment, DX, and features. He is currently working at Spendesk as a Software Engineer working on their bank integrations.
Florian is senior software engineering manager with 10 years of experience building SAAS products and tech/product teams.
He had the opportunity to recruit nearly 40 people (tech & product) and has scaled many teams (existing & from scratch) in several companies. He’s used to build engineering culture and organize tech teams to maximize their efficiency.
Fervent promoter of remote, he has piloted distributed teams in “full remote” in different countries and time zones; Thereby he knows well the processes to promote asynchronicity (strong writing culture, mastery of tools, framing of meetings, etc.).
Having worked on the creation of several SAAS products (from scratch or refactoring of existing monoliths) he knows how to adapt the right methodologies to the life cycles of a product.
Michael has been a Website Specialist for the past 8 years.
He started to build his first websites back in 2010 and managed to ship more than 100 of them for companies at different stages of growth. His main skills are around designing and developing efficient websites with CMS. He currently is the Senior Website Manager at Spendesk, leading the web squad and roadmap globally in close collaboration with Developers, Designers, Marketing Specialists and Brand Experts.
Overall, Michael can help you challenge your landing pages and design strategy, advise on CMS choices, discuss how to build a dedicated team and processes for your website and challenge your web stack. Various topics you’ll be able to discuss with him: B2B websites, CRO, A/B testing, CMS, Analytics, Traffic growth, UX, Branding and Team organization.
Guillaume is an expert in customer service strategy, customer experience design and customer operations management.
He has a solid 8-year experience as an entrepreneur and 6-year experience as an employee of fast-growing startups including Stripe, Spendesk, Vybe, and Swan, working both on B2B and B2C environments.
Not sure on who to hire or how to structure your team? Need advice on how to support and retain your customers? Are you struggling to manage a high volume of customers? Want to make your customers' journey unforgettable? Better call Guillaume!
Valentin is an expert in mobile software engineering with 10 years of experience specialized on the Apple ecosystem.
Having experience in different industries (Fintech, IoT, B2C, SaaS) in companies at different stages, he knows which decisions and tradeoffs to make and guidelines to follow to build functional and scalable mobile apps.
His current project is the Spendesk iOS app, starting it from scratch 4 years ago making it into the current scalable and loved app in a hypergrowth environment.
Previously, Valentin spent a lot of his time helping other engineers and founders with iOS technical and architectural issues at HackHands.
Valentin will have enough expertise to guide you during the definition or creation of any mobile or tablet app.
Christophe is an experienced lead product designer with over 15 years of design experience.
He joined Swile almost 4 years ago as a lead product designer and has collaborated on the development of the products and services that make it the unicorn we know today.
He also worked for a lot of brands like L'Oréal or Publicis and many more as an art director, making him a sharp eye to help you.
Aurélien is an expert in data, engineering and growth, he worked as a lead engineer, founder and growth engineer.
He was one of the first Spendesk employees working as a lead developer in the growth team, working hand in hand with the sales and marketing team to boost revenue. He then swith to the product team working on the billing system and strategy.
He founded and lead several projects like Cargo and Truckit. His polyvalence and entrepreneurial spirit will be a major asset for strategic decisions.
Louis-Victor is an expert in product management and design, he worked as a head of product, product manager and designer, and founder.
He was one of the first Spendesk employees working as a product manager focusing on payment methods, risk management, self-service, and Product led growth(PLG). He founded and led several projects like this one (Better Call), Blotter, Stapler casting...
His polyvalence and entrepreneurial spirit will help you build a product that generates revenue and that customer love
