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Sia Partners is a next generation consulting firm focused on delivering superior value and tangible results to its clients as they navigate the digital revolution. With over 1,400 consultants in 16 countries, we will generate an annual turnover of USD 280 million for the current fiscal year. Our global footprint and our expertise in more than 30 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science. As the pioneer of Consulting 4.0, we develop consulting bots and integrate AI in our solutions.

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EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services with more than 284,000 employees across 150 countries. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

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Jean-Yves Fillion is Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas USA, overseeing the bank’s wholesale and retail activities in the United States, and Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) for the Americas. Mr. Fillion has been with BNP Paribas for 34 years, 27 of which he has spent in the United States between Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. He serves on the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas USA and on the Boards of its subsidiaries: Bank of the West Corporation and BNP Paribas US Wholesale Holdings, Corp.

He is also a Director of the Advisory Board of Hautes Études ommerciales (HEC), his alma mater. In line with the Bank’s worldwide commitment to tennis, Mr. Fillion is a member of the Board of Governors for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. A former member of the French National Sailing Team, he is an active member of the New York Yacht Club and American Yacht Club. Since joining the bank in 1984, Mr. Fillion has served the bank in a succession of executive positions. Previous to his current role, he served as CEO of CIB Americas, COO of BNP Paribas Fortis and Co-Head of BNP Paribas’ CIB European Platform. Previous to those roles, he spent the bulk of his career in the US as Head of Client Coverage in North America, Head of Structured Finance Americas, Head of Acquisition Finance and Head of Media & Telecom Finance. Mr. Fillion received a Master’s degree from Dauphine University and his MBA from HEC in Paris. He also studied at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University in Chicago.

Drew Austin is a writer and urban planner whose work explores the relationship between technology, culture, and physical space. He spent most of his career in tech and transportation – most recently at Uber, where he led the team that launched Uber’s first delivery product (UberRUSH, which eventually evolved into UberEATS, etc). He writes about these topics in his weekly newsletter and blog, Kneeling Bus, and is a contributor at reallifemag.com.

Constantin Sklavenitis is the Senior Vice President, General Manager of MAC Cosmetics – North America within The Estée Lauder Companies. He assumed the role in February 2019. Prior to joining the company, Constantin worked for L’Oréal where he led an accomplished 22-year career creating business models and growing sales for multiple brands around the world, most recently with Urban Decay. His last role was Deputy General Manager for Urban Decay US where he was responsible for the sales strategy and P&L for all US retailers and oversaw the brand’s global e-commerce strategy, achieving double digit growth in all countries.

Prior to that he was Deputy General Manager, Global Business Development for Urban Decay and It Cosmetics where he led the integration of both newly acquired brands within the L’Oréal Luxe portfolio and created winning global business models for both brands, launching in 25 priority countries. Before that, Constantin was SVP Global Business Development for Kiehl’s since 1851, where he built the brand’s global strategy resulting in phenomenal sales growth, increased freestanding store openings and multiple e-commerce launches worldwide.

Prior to moving to the US, Constantin lived in Prague as General Manager for all L’Oréal Luxe brands across the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where he heavily increased market share and doubled the size of the portfolio business, and was then based in Paris as General Manager, Europe where he launched and expanded multiple L’Oréal Luxe alternative brands.

Constantin is surrounded and inspired by women in his life. He lives with his wife Armelle and their three beautiful daughters in New York City.

Ian Rogers joined LVMH as Group Chief Digital Officer in October 2015. As CDO Ian is responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons.

A graduate in computer science from Indiana University, Ian Rogers started his career in 1993 as webmaster successively for Beastie Boys and at Winamp (sold to AOL in 1999). In 2001 he founded Mediacode, which was sold to Yahoo! in 2003 where he became VP and General Manager, Music. Ian joined Beats Music as CEO in 2013 and Apple as Senior Director after their acquisition of Beats. Ian contributed to the 2015 launch of Apple Music including Beats1, their digital streaming channel.

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Created by a partnership of aviation professionals and ambitious entrepreneurs, La Compagnie reinvents the transatlantic business class experience. Since 2014, the French boutique airline has been offering daily flights exclusively in business class between Paris (Orly) and New York (Newark) at rates that are 30 to 50% cheaper than the competition. Since May 2019, it operates direct 100% business-class flights between New York and the French Riviera (Nice) from May to October.

All flights are outfitted with 76 full flat seats and provide thoughtful amenities including 15.7” touchscreens with a current selection of movies and music, seasonal menus created by renowned and rising chefs and free access to unlimited high-speed wi-fi. For reservations, visit LaCompagnie.com, call the airlines’ call center at 1-800-218-8187 or contact your travel advisor.

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Jean-Charles Périno Biography

Jean-Charles, 51, was previously Sales and Marketing Director of L'Avion and OpenSkies, having been part of the team that launched, developed and merged L’Avion with OpenSkies within the British Airways group.

His background includes sales and marketing positions in the industry at Air Canada, L’Européenne d’Assurances, and in the start-up Liligo.com. More recently, Jean-Charles has advised various airlines in their business development strategy. Jean-Charles Perino
graduated from ESLSCA, and holds an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago.

Scott Galloway Biography

Scott is a Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing and was named “One of the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors” by Poets & Quants in 2012. He is the founder of Red Envelope, Prophet Brand Strategy, and L2 Inc., acquired by Gartner (NYSE: IT) in March 2017. Scott’s book The Four (Portfolio Penguin, 2017) debuted on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists in the hardcover non-fiction and hardcover business categories. Scott was elected to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow and has served on the boards of directors of Eddie Bauer (Nasdaq: EBHI), The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), Urban Outfitters (Nasdaq: URBN), and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He received a B.A. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley.

LJ Erwin Biography

LJ Erwin is a Program Lead for Google Cloud for Startups and directs startup and VC engagement strategy in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and the US west coast ecosystems. Prior to joining Google, LJ was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and focused on sourcing early stage startups across consumer, enterprise, and life science segments. LJ is a native Texan and loves practicing the Wim Hof Method (including the ice baths) and SoulCycl’ing in Santa Monica, California.

Guillaume Bregeras Biography

Since the creation of the daily column in 2016, Guillaume is in charge of Startups at Les Echos and analyze th entrepreneurial Tech evolution and trends.

After have spent 7 years into the Infopro Digital Group (LSA, L’Usine Nouvelle), he joins Les Echos in 2014 to launch a weekly supplement dedicated to entities economy.

At the end of 1990, he also co-founded So What, a magazine on & offline dedicated to jazz.

Teo Borschberg Biography

Entrepreneur at heart, Teo Borschberg launched his first company at age 17 selling affordable art from Asia to European hotel chains. He later graduated from Ecole Hôtelière in Lausanne hungry to create companies that puts a big emphasis on customer service and relationships.

Teo spent 4 years in Shanghai where he started a socially responsible media company combining advertising and technology to save millions of litters of precious water every year. After selling his last company Good Media, he joined SRI International in the Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur in residence to help create new ventures out of innovative research. Combining a strong belief in the potential of voice technologies, opportunities around customer service/sales and a key technology from SRI International, Teo co-founded OTO Systems Inc. to push the limits of human-machine conversational systems.

ParkWise solves the street parking problem for drivers, connected and autonomous vehicles.

Jonathan Schick, COO & Co-Founder

Serial Entrepreneur, Executive and Advisor for tech startups. Co-created multi-million dollars tech companies both in B2B, B2C verticals. Experienced in and passionate about building and managing world-class, high-growth companies in Intelligent Traffic Management and smart mobility.

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Led by Forbes 30 Under 30 CEO, Rachel Benyola, Kova is turning the helmet industry on its head with the only foldable, customizable helmet technology that meets the demands of riders who hate current bulky, inconvenient and unattractive helmets.

Rachel Benyola, Founder & CEO

Rachel Benyola, MBA, MS – executive coach for retail leaders for 8 years for major brands such as Hudson’s Bay Company, Lord & Taylor, Saks 5th Avenue and Omega; Forbes 30 Under 30; Benyola is a gritty, relentless leader who surrounds herself with excellent advisors from such brands as United By Blue, Urban Outfitters, and Fossil; Benyola also is the customer, being a travel-obsessed bike rider herself. She is committed to her mission of making sustainable transportation the norm by making expert designed products that support an outdoor, healthy lifestyle.

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Time counts for chemical analysis. Rapid monitoring improves safety, increases yields and reduces costs. OndaVia commercialize a fast, accurate, analysis system that enables real-time, trace-level testing of industrial liquids.

Merwan Benhabib, PhD VP of Engineering and Co-founder

Merwan is an entrepreneur and engineer with 15 years of R&D experience building cutting edge instruments. He leads the engineering efforts at Ondavia a company he co founded to provide rapid chemical analysis of industrial waters. Prior to OndaVia, he built for NASA a nanotechnologies-based instrument to be sent to Mars for life exploration.

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Yobs helps companies scale their hiring with soft skills reports and video.

Raphael Danilo, Co-founder

Raphael is a French entrepeneur, angel investor and speaker on the Future of Work. He is based in Los Angeles where he serves as CEO of Yobs.io, an API-first platform that uses AI to remove bias from job interviews. He is also an investor/advisor in several French and American data-focused startups.

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For companies who want to do more for their people, AceUp delivers personalized executive coaching to connect employees at all levels with their full-potential, through a tech-enabled framework that makes it impactful, scalable, and measurable.

Will Guillaume Foussier, CEO & Co-Founder

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Global AI-powered real-time bot protection for websites, mobile apps & APIs. We block bot attacks. HQ in NYC & Paris.

Fabien Grenier, CEO

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Ubees leverages technology and environmental science to perform precision beekeeping, a new sustainable and eco friendly approach that aims at resolving bee mortality, improving pollination services’ and honey production’s quality.

Maximilian Ebrard, Co-founder, CFO & CTO

Maximilian is a passionated entrepreneur about bees and new technologies. Graduated from HEC in 2016, he created, during his studies, a first company dedicated to wild honeys, then a second in connected objects for precision industries. In 2018, he joined Ubees to combine his two passions and save the bees by inventing, thanks to technology, tomorrow’s beekeeping.

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Decidata calculates the performance of each dollar invested by advertisers in offline & online marketing and optimizes the ROI of their campaigns.

Jean-Matthieu GRAPPE, Co-founder

Jean-Matthieu developed the core algorithms that power the Decidata SaaS platform. As an IT entrepreneur, Jean-Matthieu worked on several innovation initiatives before starting Decidata to reinvent TV analysis and the media buying process. Previously he developed several technologies for Netgem, a company specialized in the manufacture of decoders, the basis of the current product of TV Programmatic of Decidata. He worked at Bombardier as a project manager in IT and holds a bachelor’s degree from HEC Montréal in IT and Management.

Sampler is the leading platform helping brands like L’Oreal and Nestle deliver samples online and gather the insights they need to build one-to-one relationships with their customer.

Marie Chevrier, CEO & Co-Founder

Marie is a dedicated advisor to Technology and CPG startups including ScoutCanning, member of the RetailTomorrow advisory board, and Co-Founder of RetailTO – a community dedicated to growing and strengthening Toronto’s Retail ecosystem.

She is a regular guest speaker at national and international industry conferences including the 2019 Collision
Growth Summit in Toronto, 2019 Tech Open Air Festival in Berlin, and StartupFest in Montreal.

Crossing minds is democratizing access to recent gains in artificial intelligence research by building the world’s best content recommendation platform.

Alexandre Robicquet, CEO & Co-founder

Alexandre received 3 degrees in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics and had his first publication at the age of 21. He obtained his first two Masters degrees in Mathematics and Machine Learning at the age of 23 from one of the most prestigious French University (ENS-Cachan – Master MVA + Mathematics) and was offered a full scholarship to Stanford to pursue a third Master degree in Artificial Intelligence.

All the while, he held two positions as a Research Assistant for the last 4 years under Sebastian Thrun (founder of Google X) and Silvio Savarese. His work on statistical learning and deep learning recurrently tackled the problematic of predicting human behavior (Crime Prediction Analysis at UCLA or Jackrabot project at Stanford, predicting people’s behavior in the middle of a crowd and to learn how to socially navigate).

He turned down the opportunity to do his PhD to focus entirely on Crossing Minds and Hai and apply his years of research to create the next generation of recommender system and co-founded Crossing Minds along with Dr Emile Contal and Pr Sebastian Thrun.

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Mohamed Haouache Biography

Following a career in finance of nearly a decade in New York and Paris, where he specialized in hedge funds and in risk management, Mohamed is now the CEO and co-founder of Storefront, the world’s largest marketplace for short-term commercial space rental.

He is currently focusing on developing the company’s strategy and overseeing Storefront’s continued expansion into new markets.

Storefront’s mission is to make 94% of offline retail accessible to any business. Retail is no longer about buying products but rather it’s about providing an experience that consumers delight in. Storefront, the Airbnb of retail is building the future of retail by making it more engaging, more transparent and more productive

Paul Sagan Biography

Paul Sagan is a managing director at General Catalyst, the venture capital firm. He is a director of two public companies, VMware (NYSE: VMW) and
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). Mr. Sagan is the chairman of ProPublica, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, not-for- profit investigative journalism organization.

Before General Catalyst, Mr. Sagan worked at Akamai Technologies, Inc., where he became employee #15 and chief operating officer in 1998. He joined the company before it delivered its first product, and when he left 21 years later, revenues were approaching $3 billion. Mr. Sagan became Akamai’s president in 1999, and he was appointed CEO and elected to the board of directors in 2005.

Mr. Sagan served as chief executive through 2012 and as a director until 2019.Mr. Sagan also served as senior advisor to the World Economic Forum from 1997 to 1998. His career began in broadcast television news in New York City. Previously, Mr. Sagan was a founder of Road Runner, the world’s first broadband cable modem service, and Pathfinder, one of the early Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising. In 1995, Mr. Sagan was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc., a division of Time Warner, where those businesses were created. Previously, he served as managing editor of Time Warner’s News on Demand project and was a senior member of the team responsible for the development of the company’s online business activities.

Mr. Sagan joined Time Warner in 1991 as senior vice president of cable programming to design and launch NY 1 News, the cable news network based in New York City. He joined WCBS-TV in 1981 as a news writer and was named news director in 1987. President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Sagan to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee in 2010, and he served until January 2017. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed Mr. Sagan to
chair the Commonwealth’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from 2015 until 2019.

Naomi Mulgrave Biography

Naomi Mulgrave is vice president, Head of Strategy and Innovation at Prudential International Insurance. In this role, she is responsible for partnering across international regions to define innovative strategies to reach customers and drive profitable growth.

Prior to her current role, Mulgrave was vice president, Strategic Solutions, where she partnered to devise and execute business strategies to reach consumers with new product, service and advice offerings. Mulgrave also led Strategy, Research and Analytics at Prudential, where she identified new growth opportunities for protection solutions through the creation of an innovation lab, strategic capability teams and incubator partnerships.

Before coming to Prudential, she worked at American Express, where she provided business insight and strategy on product, channel and business performance as vice president, Customer Lifecycle Management and Business Intelligence. She also held a number of previous positions with American Express, including vice president, Global Business Strategy and Execution and director, Global Marketing and Product Development.

Mulgrave has specific experience in launching publications as it relates to consumer and scientific publishing. She is a graduate of the University at Albany, SUNY.

Nicola Palmer Biography

Lucia Sinapi-Thomas Biography

Ms. Lucia Sinapi graduated from ESSEC business school (1986) and Paris Law University – Panthéon Assas (1988), was admitted to the Paris bar (1989), and has a financial analyst degree (SFAF 1997). She started her career as a tax and business lawyer in 1986, before joining Capgemini in 1992. She has more than 20 years’ experience within Capgemini group, successively as Group Tax Advisor (1992), head of Corporate Finance, Treasury and Investors Relations (1999), then head of Risk Management and Insurance (2005), and member of the Group Review Board. She was Deputy Chief Financial Officer from 2013 until December 31, 2015 and was appointed Executive Director Business Platforms of Capgemini group in January 2016. Since January 1, 2019, Ms. Lucia Sinapi- Thomas is Executive Director of Capgemini Ventures. She is member of the Board of Directors of Capgemini, Bureau Veritas and Dassault Aviation.

Yun-Hee Kim Biography

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Adele Maynes Biography

Adele Maynes was on her way to becoming an anthropologist when a lucky detour took her into the tech industry. Now she applies her background in social science theory and research methodologies to business puzzles. Known for her raw creativity and different perspective on problems, she has served as a management and strategy consultant to leaders at a variety of growing startups. Currently at Eventbrite, she works closely with the executive team on product strategy, international expansion, and innovation efforts.

Luc Julia Biography

As CTO and SVP Innovation for Samsung, Dr. Luc JULIA led the company’s vision and strategy for the Internet of Things and now focuses on making these machines smarter. Luc directed Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at HP and cofounded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. He is the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

Jerome Pesenti Biography

Jerome Pesenti is VP of Artificial Intelligence at Facebook, heading up the company’s AI research and applied AI teams. Jerome has been working in AI for the past 20 years, including as CEO of BenevolentTech, the technology division of BenevolentAI, a British technology company using AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Prior to that role Jerome was VP at IBM Watson, where he led the creation and development of the IBM Watson Platform. Jerome joined IBM after its acquisition of Vivisimo, a tech firm specializing in text mining and enterprise search engines, which he co-founded in 2000.

Jerome was also a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science department, researching text mining and AI. More recently he served as co-chair of an independent review on the growth of AI, commissioned by the UK government in 2016. That review’s 2017 report led to a sector deal, solidifying partnerships between the government and the tech industry to boost innovation in AI. He is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with a Ph.D. in pure maths and degrees in philosophy and cognitive sciences.

Matt Salzberg Biography

Matt founded Blue Apron in 2011 and served as President & CEO for its first six years, overseeing Blue Apron’s growth from idea to category-leading public company. During that time, Matt built Blue Apron into a nationally recognizable brand with millions of customers and innovative supply chain. Matt led Blue Apron’s $2 billion IPO in June 2017 and served as CEO until the company had approximately $910 million of trailing revenue and 5,000 employees. Matt is currently Blue Apron’s Executive Chairman, and serves on the company’s Board of Directors.

Matt has a passion for entrepreneurship and is heavily involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem as an angel investor, board member and repeat founder. He is the co-founder of Embark Veterinary, a next generation genetic testing company for dogs, where he serves on the Board of Directors. He has also made dozens of investments in start-ups, served on a variety of corporate boards and volunteers as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School— a Dean’s appointment where he meets with and advises students on entrepreneurship related topics.

Before Blue Apron, Matt worked as a senior associate at Bessemer Venture Partners and as an analyst with The Blackstone Group. Matt holds an A.B. degree in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He was named 35 under 35 by Inc. Magazine, 40 under 40 by Fortune, and 40 under 40 by Crain’s. He was also the recipient of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year national award in 2016.

Matthieu Baret Biography

Fabrice Grinda Biography

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors. He has over 150 exits on 450 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Flexport, Zume Pizza, Delivery Hero, Betterment and Brightroll. Fabrice is currently running the startup studio and venture fund FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice was named the #1 Angel Investor in the world by Forbes`

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Geraldine Le Meur Biography

Based in San Francisco, Géraldine Le Meur, a French-American entrepreneur, investor, board member founded her first company at the age of 23. Since the very early days of the Internet in 1995, she successfully pursued her entrepreneurial journey in the tech ecosystem, founding a web agency, a web hosting company, a blogging platform and a trailblazer event, Le Web, which brought all of Silicon Valley key players in Europe.

She is an active Angel Investor and she invested in companies such as LinkedIn, LendingClub, Teads, Evernote, WP engine. In 2016, she co-founded The Refiners, a San Francisco based pre-seed fund and program devoted to foreign founders. The Refiners Fund I backed and invested in 56 companies. In February 2019, she published « Step it up How French women hack work-life balance » to demystify female entrepreneurship and help women connect to role models grounded in real life. Translated from her French book « Comme Elles Entreprenez Votre Vie! ».

Frederic Mazzella Biography

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and Chairman of BlaBlaCar since 2006 and was Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2016. In 2018 Mr. Mazzella was also elected Co-President of France Digitale, the largest startup association in Europe representing 1300 startups. Since 2019, Mr. Mazzella is a Non-Executive Director at Olio Exchange Ltd., a private UK-based company.

Mr. Mazzella holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, a Master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in physics from École Normale Supérieure.

With a strong focus on immigration services, Columbus Consulting Group assists individuals and companies in their expansion in the United States. Columbus has an extensive scope of services to cover all business needs of foreign companies and entrepreneurs who are looking to make a successful, quick and easy entry into the U.S. market.

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La French Tech is the nickname of the French startup ecosystem and all those in it—from bioscience to online marketplaces—wherever in the world they come from. It is also a government-backed movement bolstering France as one of the best countries in the world to start and scale global tech champions.

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Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw Global 100 firm founded in 1927 with approximately 870 attorneys in 15 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The Sheppard Mullin French Desk is a dedicated team of U.S.-qualified French-speaking attorneys committed to advising French clients in the US. We provide comprehensive support to French companies throughout their incorporation, investments, M&A strategy and growth in the United States. Our Sheppard Mullin French Desk attorneys are based in our New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Century City offices. They are supported by a comprehensive European law practice focused on competition law based in the firm’s Brussels office.

Our team of attorneys specializes in U.S. business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities offerings (debt and equity), general corporate, fund formation matters, commercial contracts, licensing and distribution across various industries, including tech, cloud, software, biotech, life sciences, pharma, energy and renewables. The firm also handles litigation, regulatory, trade sanctions, foreign investment, tax, competition, intellectual property, labor and other specialty matters. We deliver effective representation in the U.S. law for France-based companies, venture funds and other investors with cross-border interests. Through its French Desk, Sheppard Mullin is dedicated to strengthening the ties between the French and U.S. business communities.

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A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over 40 countries. The Group reported 2017 global revenues of EUR 12.8 billion.

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Idinvest Partners is a leading European mid-market private equity firm. With €8bn under management, the firm has developed several areas of expertise including innovative startup venture capital transactions; mid-market private debt, i.e. single-tranche, senior and subordinated debt; primary and secondary investment and private equity advisory services. Founded in 1997, Idinvest Partners used to belong to the Allianz Group until 2010, when it branched out as an independent firm.

In January 2018, Idinvest Partners became a subsidiary of Eurazeo, a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €17bn in assets under management, including approximately
€11bn from investment partners, invested in over 350 companies.

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Theodo is a process-driven software development agency whose mains strengths are to help companies: build their market-relevant MVP in less than 10 weeks grow their product towards product/market fit scale their tech team once the product/market fit has been reached. They have a global team of over 200+ super smart developers, based in the US, the UK, and France and worked with successful startups like Cleo, Voodoo.io, Made.com, and BlaBlaCar.

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