Arnaud Auger is an accomplished marketer and innovator with over 10 years of international experience. He is an award-winning marketer, author, entrepreneur, and international public speaker. Arnaud is recognized as a media-acclaimed expert in marketing, innovation, and startups. He has given 50+ international TV interviews and spoken at prestigious conferences like SXSW three times. Arnaud works in San Francisco as a cross-border open innovation enabler for BNP Paribas, the world's fifth-largest bank. He helps the bank find strategic partners among innovative companies in Silicon Valley to foster research partnerships, business collaborations, investments, and acquisitions.

Arnaud is an expert in startups and innovation in emerging markets. He lived in Africa for four years and India for two years, and he's facilitated many successful collaborations between western innovative businesses and emerging markets. He's mentored many startups, including at top accelerators like Plug and Play and Google. Arnaud is also a social media and marketing expert with extensive experience managing 100+ social media and mobile campaigns. He's managed over $1M in budgets and engaged over 5M people, and his work has been featured on Apple US, FWA Awards, and Awwwards. Arnaud is the author of Facebook Marketing, a top-5 most influential business book of the year in France. He's also a marketing guest lecturer in business school (MBA) and the marketing mentor of many startups.

Arnaud has an impressive educational background. He holds a Master's in Entrepreneurship & innovation management from HEC School of Management, a Master's in Communication, Marketing, Management from CELSA - Ecole des hautes études en sciences de l'information et de la communication, and a Bachelor's in the same field. He also studied Philosophy, with a business ethics specialty, at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV). Additionally, Arnaud has several certificate programs in personal financial planning and finance from UC Berkeley Extension and Khâgne - Lycée Fauriel.