MIT Sloan School of Management

Harvard Business School

University of Westminster

Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Université de Provence

4 Startups. 3 Hyperscalers. Scaler & Disruptor. 🚀 (My Views Are My Own)

Alphabet's independent fund. 16 IPOs. 9 M&As. Portfolio incl: Databricks, CrowdStrike, Dataiku, UiPath, Stripe, Collibra and more.

$7B in assets under management.  

Typical investments of $50-$200 million per company.

We invest capital and expertise to help remarkable leaders accelerate the growth of their businesses. 

Focus: Growth-stage companies, leveraging a dedicated in-house growth team and Google’s world-class expertise to guide entrepreneurs through the shift from start-up to scale-up.

CapitalG

Partner

Led global team of high-performance outbound product management leaders who put Customers FIRST. Portfolio included: BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker, Data Studio, PubSub, Composer, Data Fusion, Catalog, Dataform, Dataprep and Dataplex.  

In less than 3 years, we became a Top 5 enterprise software company, adopted by 60% of the world’s largest organizations (starting practically from 0), with 100,000 partners and large deals (250M+) growing by 300%. 

Together, we:
1) Drive business performance through the implementation of a successful go-to-market strategy that spans Engineering, Marketing, Sales & Partners.
2) Collect & use insights from customers, partners, & analysts at scale so we can build the best data, AI and analytics experiences.  This includes software, services and everything "Beyond the Bits".
3) Build AI-powered solutions to drive business growth and accelerate our customers' path to value.

We are:
Leaders in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems.
Leaders in Forrester's Waves for AI Infrastructure, Data Security, Streaming Analytics, Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Management for Analytics.

Google

Head of Data & Analytics, Google Cloud

Performed one of the fastest turnarounds in the Business Analytics space. 
1- Helped drive triple-digit consumption growth of Multi-Billion Dollar Business, 2 years in a row. 
2- Out-executed competition by a factor of 10X with customer representation, reach and satisfaction (NPS: 76, 20M+ reached, #1 on IDC & Forrester). 
3 - Put Oracle Analytics on the map and back on track after years of decline.
+ From Niche to Visionary in less than 1 year (after it was stuck in Niche for 4+ years).
+ From Bottom 5 to Top 5 in less than 12 months.
+ #2 in Gartner Peer Insights achieved in 3 months.
4 - Rebooted Product Management discipline leading to a transparent, trusted, reliable and predictable relationship between customers and the company.
5 - Rebuilt Product Strategy & Execution aligning Engineering + GTM
6 - Rationalized product direction from 18 SKUs to 3 Solutions aligned with customer use-cases for Cloud Analytics and Applications.
7 - Grew community by 100X thru community & readiness excellence. 

Our work drove Oracle’s Overall Share Of Voice Impact to #1, ahead of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SAP & Salesforce.  We were recognized for best practices in industry, achieved momentum “never-experienced-before at Oracle or in the industry”.

Responsibilities spanned across:
- Product Strategy, Roadmap, and 3rd party Business Development & Integration
- Customer Community, Partner Go-To-Market & Enablement
- General Management of Business Strategy, Operations & Licensing
- Packaging, Pricing & Positioning across Oracle Analytics Cloud Platform & Applications

For "The Story Behind The Story", watch: 
- https://tinyurl.com/oamakingof
- https://bit.ly/2IyLcoP
- https://bit.ly/2G6eCfT

Additional References:
-451 Research qualified this turnaround in their most recent account: “The Sleeping Giant Awakens".
-ZDNet called it a “New Beginning for Oracle Analytics”.

Oracle

Group Vice President, AI & Data Analytics Cloud at Oracle

First business executive (#7). Helped launch and grow the company into the industry leader in Data, AI and Analytics. (btw - I know how to spell "Jack".  I'm French 🇫🇷 though so I had to adapt the term ;))

The company enables companies to accelerate Business Intelligence, A.I. and Machine Learning initiatives into a multi-cloud world .  Customers include TDBank, Toyota, The Home Depot, JPM Chase, GlaxoSmithKline, Bloomberg, and many more!  

Global partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tableau, Qliktech to name a few...

AtScale

"Jacques of All Trades" (Product, Marketing, Customers & Partners)

Helped grow revenue by 3X on Year 1 and by 10X on Year 2.  Reshaped company product offering and helped operate business model transformation (from perpetual to SaaS in less than 12 months...and then to consumption-based).

Landed company on Gartner Magic Quadrant in less than 6 months in 2014.  In Year 2, landed Alpine Data Labs in “Visionary” quadrant in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics.  Company gained recognition from IDC, Forrester and won “Innovation of Year” award from Ventana Research.

Drove company rebranding and  messaging. Built and grew communication, product marketing, lead generation, inside-sales and sales development functions. 

Grew company’s mindshare and recognition by 3X in year 1 and 5X in Year 2. Company was featured in TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ZDNet, Business Insider, GigaOM, VentureBeat and InformationWeek.  

About Alpine Data Labs
Alpine Data Labs delivers the industry’s first Enterprise Platform for Advanced Analytics.  The company has worldwide reach and counts some of the most prestigious brands as customers - from Morgan Stanley to Ericsson, Bosch, Equifax, Fidelity and Havas Media, to name a few.  
More at www.alpinenow.com

Alpine Data

CEO’s co-pilot (Product, Sales & Marketing) | Acquired by Tibco

Helped launch company globally and grow revenue by 3X in Year 1, by over 5X in Year 2.  Company was named #1 in Big Data Analytics by CIO, CRN and Inc. Mag. Also featured in TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Forbes, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Information Management, Business Insider, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Business Week...etc  

About SiSense
The company provides an end-to-end Big Data Analytics solution for companies of all sizes.  SiSense is trusted by some of the world’s most discerning brands from Target, eBay, Caterpillar, Philips and ESPN all the way to NASA.   Company raised a total of $44M from DFJ Growth, Battery Ventures, Genesis Partners and Opus Capital.

Sisense

GM/VP | Acquired Periscope Data

Helped company grow Data Analytics and Business Intelligence unit to $1B. Managed teams across Product, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Partner Strategy to the acquisition and integration of software companies and assets.  

Worked directly with Microsoft’s Presidents Jeff Raikes and  Stephen Elop. Shipped over 10 products in 6 years (2X typical Microsoft’s cadence then).

Microsoft

Managing Director | Analytics, Cloud & Big Data

General Management, PM, PMM, Sales Operations

Global Launch of Executive Insights for BusinessObjects Dashboards and Visualization offering (including Web Intelligence, Voyager, Set Analyzer, Reporter and BusinessObjects Enterprise).

Supported acquisition and integration of Crystal Reports, Acta and Data Partnership with Salesforce.com.  Worked directly with Bernard Liautaud, Founder and CEO.

SAP BusinessObjects

Global Product Lead  | IPO, then acquired by SAP ($6.78B)

General Management, PM, PMM
Reported directly to CEO and Founder.

Bruno Aziza