 | Caroline Schmitt
Digital Accelerator- Digital Marketing Expert
- Design, GUI and User Experience focused
- Analytics Driven: If you can’t measure it, don’t do it!
- Business Model Think-Tank
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Caroline has a solid track record in e-Marketing and e-Commerce, she brings full integrated marketing strategies, processes and structures.
Her executive background in Internet Sales, Marketing & Communications and Customer Service is a strong base for her activities on Internet guided selling techniques, mastering emailing tools, web analytics, SEO, SEM to drive increased lead generation, revenue, community size, site utilization and customer retention.
Caroline started her career in Controlling at Hoechst / Aventis, then moved on to communications at Havas Media. Her real passion for Internet businesses started at SourcingParts.com where she was Sales & Marketing manager and subsequently MFG.com as Marketing Director for EMEA. Caroline is Swedish and fluent in 5 languages.  csc AT rampupit DOT com
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 | Jean-François Blachon
Network Amplifier- Excellent Business and Technology strategist
- Brings key partners for your business to the table
- Focuses on you being successful in a competitive market
- Perfectionist when it comes to user experience
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Jean-François is the networking guru for online start-ups. He is also brilliant at overall architecture and for the technical designs of SOA-based platforms and application exchange, which will support the collaborative development of 3rd-party functionality and enhanced integration between you and alliance partners. After working in the CAD and ERP area, Jean-François joined Paul de La Rochefoucauld in 2000 to create SourcingParts.com as CTO. SourcingParts.com has been sold to MFG.com in 2006. From CTO, Jean-François became Global Development Vice-President and from VP System Architecture. On side, Jean-François worked as CTO for LeShop.ch. jfb AT rampupit DOT com |
 | Laurent Chazallon
Foundation Booster- Translates your Business needs into code
- Framework and Database genius
- Loves a technological challenge
- Quick thinker: Always 3 steps ahead of you…
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Laurent is THE software & database architect. He is an expert at selecting and applying the appropriate technologies and planning the migration paths to sustain growth and complexity. He manages multiple development teams around the world and probably still is unbeatable at writing code in many coding languages. Laurent is fluent in many softwares, database applications frameworks and other information technology tools. lch AT rampupit DOT com |
 | David Galbraith- Expert in design product trends and UX
- Ten years experience in Silicon Valley and New York
- Co-creator of Internet standards such as RSS and Twitter Bios
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David has expert knowledge of design combined with technical expertise, and the unique ability to interface between those who are involved in the development of physical products and those who create Internet services.
Co-founder of four Internet startups, with a combined valuation over $1B, from Moreover, the first news search engine which powered Yahoo and MSN and was sold to Verisign, to the Origins Network which provided the first online access to government data in the UK.
He was also a co-founder of the Internet Incubator, MRL Ventures, where he initiated the project which became Yelp.com. David is also co-creator of Internet standards used by more than 500 M people, including RSS and the bios used by Twitter and Facebook. David is a fully qualified architect, having originally worked for Lord Norman Foster in London and Jean Nouvel in Paris. |
 | Paul de La Rochefoucauld- Deep understanding of online user behavior and communities
- Recurrence is everything; how to make a business sticky!
- Co-founder of 2 major European Internet startup
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Paul de La Rochefoucauld is a pillar in today’s European Internet community. His passion lies in bringing the leverage and the disruptiveness of the Internet to traditional business models.
He is currently CEO and co-founder of iTaste.com, a social network for food lovers.
Paul also co-founded and was CEO of SourcingParts.com, an online marketplace for the manufacturing industry. SourcingParts was the B2B solution for numerous Fortune500 customers such as ABB, THALES, Schneider Electric (Square D), Snecma / Safran, Dassault, Cartier and Bombardier. In June 2006, SourcingParts.com became MFG.com Europe. MFG.com is an Atlanta-based company backed by Bezos Expeditions and Volition Capital.
In 2005, SourcingParts.com was awarded the Strategis Award for its excellence in innovation and management. In 2007, Paul was recognized as one of the top-100 leaders in Swiss business.
A true European, Paul is a French national, he lives in Switzerland and is fluent in French, English and German. |
