Functional Skills

Regulatory Compliance
Business Analysis
Operations Management
Innovation Management
Business Operations
Business Planning
Business Unit Strategy
Change Management / Org Design
Cost Reduction
Cybersecurity
Financial Due Diligence
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Financial Modeling
Growth Strategy
Strategy Development

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Media & Entertainment
Technology
Telecom

Languages

English
French
Spanish
Italian
German

Experience

Sepulveda Capital Management Consulting
President
9/2011 - Present
Family office and management consulting firm

Sample digital growth strategies clients (for the Board of Directors and/or CEO) :
- the leading electrical goods retailer in France and Benelux (Darty, 3.5b€ revenue, 10K employees, 400 stores),
- a pan-European marketing company (HighCo, 130m€ revenue, 900 employees),
- a global IT Services company (CapGemini, ~10b€ revenue, 122K employees, 39 countries),
- a very large ISP (AOL, 46m subscribers),
- seminars on innovation for key customers and top management for several services groups (Edenred, Prosodie, EuroMediaGroup) and a large utility (EDF).

Investments:
● Portfolio of 15 seed-stage companies with 12 exits to date, and of 6 funds as LP.
● Sample early-stage investments: Amiando, Getaround (NYSE:GETR), Holberton, RecargaPay, Trigami
Expon Capital Finance
Co-founder, Managing Partner
6/2015 - 12/2021
● Setup of ManCo (4 partners), fundraising (50+ LPs, $100m AUM), operations (regulatory compliance, LP reporting, HR, marketing, IT). In charge of sourcing mainly in Spain & Portugal, UK & Ireland, USA (based 50% of my time in Palo Alto, USA for 3 years); processed 12.000+ leads.
● Portfolio of 30 companies (50+ transactions) from Series Seed to Series F, with 8 exits to date.
● Sample growth investments: Catalyte, Dott, Glovo (DHER.DE), Ocus, Pliops, Refurbed, Spire Global (NYSE:SPIR)
vpod.tv Start-Up
Co-founder, CEO, Chairman of the Board
9/2005 - 3/2010
award-winning B2B video platform for Fortune 500 clients (raised $5.1m Series A), based in Paris and Madrid (27 people, profitable) – Acquired.
RISC Partners Finance
Co-founder, Managing Partner
1/2002 - 3/2010
Technology holding company, Paris & Madrid - Acquired.
GLOWRIA Start-Up
Co-founder, COO then interim CEO, Board member
1/2002 - 7/2005
#1 French & #2 German B2C video-rental and VOD service (based on the Netflix model) with many white-label partners (retail, telco, media companies); 87 people, €5m+ revenue/year, break-even on operations; raised €16m in total - Acquired
Gemini Consulting Management Consulting
Principal (Director)
12/2000 - 7/2001
led design of industrial B2B marketplaces in the energy sector.
KPMG CONSULTING Management Consulting
Manager
1/1996 - 6/2000
Joined first as a Consultant, promoted to Senior consultant in 1998, and again to Manager in 1999.

Highlights:
- launched the e-business practice
- led a pan-European B2B ecommerce project
- designed & implemented regional intranets & websites for media agencies
- designed & launched call- centers
- designed a pan-European outdoor billboard IT back-end
- led security audits
- optimized a telecom infrastructure
- audited and recommended new processes for a newspaper
- did cost-killing for an airline