Olivier Carron De La Carriere

• CEO and VP-level positions in international/global high technology companies.
• Over 30 years of sales, marketing and management roles based in UK, Slovenia, France, Africa and USA within hardware, software, telecom and services sectors.
• High-motivation management style with a record of building and retaining European teams and distributor networks.
• Successful in identifying opportunities for accelerated growth. Strong team builder, P&L and customer satisfaction oriented.

Specialties
Interactive marketing; Mobile and Internet marketing and advertising to increase ROI of advertising money...!

Expériences

• Imagiin.com : 11/2005 - Aujourd'hui
  Founder, Chairman and CEO
  www.imagiin.com, Advertising on-demand! === Imagiin, the C2B company, is an infomediary providing a new balanced relation between brands and consumers opened to their marketing messages. ° Consumer use the service "on demand" and get a respectfull service on various fix and mobile devices: ads are never intrusive, only relevant messages to their profile & plans are presented, time & attention on brand messages are rewarded, consumer is 100% protected (his profile details is never shared with anyone). ° Brands get a 100% efficient marketing tool which payment is due only for usefull targets that have paid attention to and memorized the marketing message. Imagiin ruins the famous advertising axiom "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half" credited to John Wanamaker in the 1870s.
• OCC@Consulting : 07/2004 - Aujourd'hui
  Owner
  Consulting in Internet and Start-up Companies:
  -Launching of European operations for US based Companies
  -Establishing Offshore development center (ODC) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
  -Active participation to the elaboration of the business plan, planning, definition of the value proposal, team recruitment,...of existing projects.
• Hermes SoftLab based in Ljubljana - Slovenia : 11/2002 - 07/2004
  President and CEO
  President and CEO: The Company was facing major financials problems, reporting €4.5M losses on €38.4M of revenue in FY2002 with more than 700 employees deployed in 9 countries: Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Hungary, Austria, Germany, USA, UK, Ireland and France. I led a process of renewal, evolving a new organization with redefined responsibilities for members of a newly structured Executive Committee. I acted as a real agent of change and under my leadership, the company was streamlined on activities that had a material positive impact on operations.
  The Company is now well positioned to provide software engineering in Western European countries and related consulting services and system integration in former Yugoslavian countries and in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). In fiscal 2004, the company's financial performance is very satisfactory, showing revenues ahead of plan, good forward orders and consistently positive monthly cash flows.
• HERMES SoftLab d.d. : 2002 - 2004
  President and CEO
• HERMES SoftLab : 2002 - 07/2004
  President and CEO
• Keynote Systems based in London- UK : 11/1999 - 10/2002
  VP EMEA
  VP EMEA: Start-up from scratch of the Company’s International presence. Established a network of Vars in 24 Countries around the globe: EMEA and Asia/Pacific (Indirect business model, Sales push and Sales pull). Very strong Brand awareness programs through co-branding campaign with Publication Partners. Focussed on very large enterprises (Nokia, Shell, ABN AMRO, PSA…) with Account Management programs. This business is worth 10% of the total Company
• Alcatel, Oracle, Gupta Technologies, Bull : 09/1989 - 09/1999
  BU Director, President &COO in San Francisco, Paris or Africa
  Start-up of new markets or new geographies: EMEA, Africa, USA
• Alcatel TITN Inc : 1994 - 1997
  President and Coo
• Oracle France : 1989 - 1991
  Directeur de division
• Digital Equipment Corporation : 1978 - 10/1989
  Corporate Account Manager
• Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) : 1978 - 1989
  From Sales Trainee to Corporate Account Manager