Marc Leprat

Marc Leprat has over 18 years experience in the IT & Telecom industry.

He started working in 1989 as a software development engineer for IBM Europe. He then switched to sales & marketing at IBM France where he was given the responsibility of driving the business with Lotus France, creating the WW unique live experience of product synergies between the two companies 3 years before IBM acquired the software editor.

In 1995 he joined an IT development company as Sales director where he started to promote Internet solutions to the largest financial companies in France.

In 1999 he founded Tela Solutions, an B2B Web agency later sold to a larger company called Business & Decision.

During the bubble blast, Marc joined FranceNet-Fluxus, the French Internet pioneer specialized in Application Development & Hosting as VP Strategic Marketing and drove the company portfolio in a very competitive and challenging economic environment. Six months after he joined, FranceNet-Fluxus became a subsidiary of BT (British Telecom) and Marc was a BT Hosting division board member.

When BT France decided to join all subsidiaries into one company in France, Marc was elected as the Executive Vice President of Marketing of the reorganized company.

From November 2004 to 2008, Marc worked full time on his new venture, Imagiin.com. This new venture  ambitions to create a positive digital market place where brands and consumers can meet and trade respectfully in a win-win relation. 

Since then, Marc has cofounded "Les Propulseurs", a group of entrepreneurs dedicated to facilitate innovation within companies. He has developed a consultant activity in Social Marketing (based on the Web 2.0) and develop of a consumer-friendly marketing. He also teaches innovative marketing in several french business school such as HEC, ESCP, RMS, EDHEC, RBS...

Marc holds an MBA from Reims Management School (an Equis accredited French university) and a BS in Economics from the University of Paris, France. At the end of his studies, he lived a year in the US as a Teaching Assistant at Concordia University, Minnesota. Later, he traveled many times around the world for pleasure and business.