Our Company

Christophe Primault

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Christophe has an extensive background in the technology industry. He began his career with NCR as a Sales Director for international accounts. Thereafter, he took up the lead for marketing operations for NCR and AT&T in France at the pan-European level. He was then appointed to Vice President of Global Marketing for NCR's Financial Division. After his tenure at NCR, he took over as Managing Director for Fluiditi Ltd, a firm specializing in security solutions for the financial industry (sold to Oberthur Card Systems). More recently, Christophe served as CEO for Kinamik, a software security startup. He is a graduate of the University of Paris Dauphine where he earned a Masters in Finance at the Cranfield School of Management. He likes open water swimming, long distance triathlons (IronMan finisher), apnea and sailing.

Manuel Jaffrin

Chief Operating Officer, Founder

Manuel is an international business development executive with over 14 years of experience in the IT sector. He started his career as a technologist at Sun Microsystems and moved on to business roles within the company in the Education and Research sectors. Thereafter, he took a leadership role for Sun in the European division for the Web 2.0 business unit where he developed an extensive knowledge of the channel business and established great relationships with leading European SaaS companies. He is a graduate of the University of Compiegne where he earned a Masters of Computer Science. He likes wind-surfing, kite-surfing, triathlons and swimming.

Bruno Pedro

Chief Technology Officer

Bruno Pedro is a Web and Cloud Computing Technologist with over fifteen years experience in the field. Bruno is the founder of Tarpipe (acquired by Nubera), a platform to streamline updates to various social websites, creating a range of simple to complex workflows between social media apps. He also founded JobTide (acquired by AdClick), a job search engine and company directory operating in Brazil, Denmark and Portugal. Bruno has been developing Open Source and commercial applications since 1995. He's an O'Reilly author and a regular speaker at industry related events. In his spare time he enjoys exploring the Internet of Things with the Arduino platform.

Diane Strutner

Director of Business Development

A California native, Diane is an international sales and business development executive with a background working in SaaS and internet companies. She is a graduate from Manhattan College where she earned a Bachelors of Science in Marketing. She was a Division I scholarship athlete, competing and serving as team captain on the indoor volleyball team. She enjoys playing beach volleyball, running and rollerblading.

Carles Ferrer

Board Member

Carles has broad Venture Capital experience, having managed several funds. He is a General Partner at Nauta Capital, a VC firm that actively invests in early stage technology companies with offices in Barcelona and Boston. Aside from investing, he also services on several Boards of security and media companies based in Europe and the USA, including Scytl, Agnitio, BrandWatch, BaseKit, Abiquo, iJento.

Gilles Samoun

Board Member

Gilles has been driving revenue and market share growth for US and European technology companies for 20+ years. He has been CEO of several venture backed companies including NTRGlobal, Fotopedia, Solsoft, Solsoft, MediaPath. He is a pioneer and strong advocate of Software as a Service and the founder of Qualys a Security as a Service company. He is involved in venture capital as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital and Advisor in several M&A transactions. He serves on the Board of Directors of Agiliance, Criteo, and JoliCloud.

Al Sisto

Board Member

Al has been a senior executive for leading US technology companies for 20+ years. He served as a senior executive at Intel, Ingres and MIPS Technologies. He was COO at RSA Data Security, and CEO of Documagix and Phoenix Technologies. He is currently Venture Partner at Nauta Capital and serves on the Board of Directors of CertiVox, Agnitio and iJento.