Télécom Paris

McGill University

EURECOM

Managing Partner W2/W3 at W Investments Inc.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The two venture funds W2 Investments (launched in 2011) and W3 Investments (launched in 2013) are “sidecar” investments in partnership with a large Quebec institutional pension fund. We invested in companies such as Lumenpulse, Noviflow, Worximity, Immune Biosolutions, Distech-Controls (sold to Acuity Brand), iBwave (sold to Corning), JLR (sold to Equifax), Reacts (sold to Philips) and Colo-D (sold to Cologix).

W Investments Inc. is a Canadian investment firm, created by entrepreneurs, targeting technology and media related profitable companies with a proven track record and strong potential for growth. We help develop the potential of the organizations in which we invest. Using the approach of an entrepreneur, we work closely with companies on their development by reinforcing their strengths and maximizing their efficiency without necessarily disrupting their business model or affecting key individuals in place. We promote talent, and we ensure positive change and guarantee expansion while bringing in added value which makes all the difference.
<a href="http://www.winvestments.ca">www.winvestments.ca</a>

Groupe W inc

Managing Partner W2/W3

Holt Fintech Accelerator alongside the Holdun Family, is focused on boosting AI capabilities of Fintech businesses and expanding their international network.
The top 10 Fintech Startups from around the world will be selected, receive financing and help to broker deals with large international financial partners.

Holt Accelerator

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Latest project launching in 2022: Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters  -  Teaser Trailer: <a href="https://lnkd.in/dZUFNxM">https://lnkd.in/dZUFNxM</a>
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Complex Games is a leading game development studio with a strong expertise in free-to-play game design, with over 12 years of proven experience creating and delivering top-selling, award-winning mobile games for some of the world’s largest game publishers and entertainment brands. Complex Games uses its powerful Multiplex Engine to develop cutting-edge real-time synchronous multiplayer strategy & action games.

Complex Games Inc.

Shareholder & Advisory Board Member

Budgeto is the first easy-to-use, affordable and reliable online budgeting tool designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Thanks to its fully automated interface, Budgeto makes it possible to prepare, share and maintain multi-scenario business budgets without any accounting knowledge. Budgeto has a clear mission: to promote and encourage entrepreneurship by developing and bring to market innovative financial and accounting tools.
Budgeto is already used by thousands of entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, across some school boards, entrepreneurship programs, universities, incubators, accelerators, start-up support organizations, cities, investors, accounting firms and financial institutions.
Budgeto connects with QuickBooks Online (QBO) and Xero, leading online accounting systems. It allows entrepreneurs to not only build a budget but also easily maintain their projections by automatically importing historical data from their bookkeeping software month after month.
To find out more, or to open a free account, visit <a href="http://budgeto.com">budgeto.com</a>

Budgeto

Co-Founder & President

FounderFuel is a mentor-driven accelerator that helps early stage web, mobile, and SaaS startups raise seed capital through access to veteran entrepreneurs, angel investors, VCs, and senior executives.
FounderFuel is backed by the team behind Montreal Startup and Real Ventures (a $100+ million seed-stage fund).

FounderFuel

The PaymentPin Payment solutions allow customers to charge purchases on the web and on their mobile phone to their carrier bill, landline and mobile. For merchants, additional payment methods add new revenue streams unlocking segments of customers who do not possess a valid credit card or are reluctant to use their credit card online because of concerns around privacy and security.

Paymentpin

Advisor - Corporate Development & Strategy

Created in 1981, promoted by Concordia University, the John Molson MBA International Case Competition builds on a tradition of excellence. The competition brings both academic and corporate worlds together through its challenging case presentation format.
This competition is one of the most important of it’s kind worldwide, with more than 36 teams from Global Executive MBAs from various continent, and the most important in Canada.

John Molson MBA International Case Competition

Judge

Retinad was spearheading the development of VR analytics, heatmaps and many other new technologies for virtual reality.
VR Analytics Platform RetinadVR was Acquired by LumiereVR in January 2019

Retinad VR (sold to LumiereVR)

Investor & Advisory Board Member

icejam mission was to deliver a transformative next step in mobile games and gamer engagement that offers the potential for tremendous growth. icejam’s Playable Data™ Platform, was built to create world-class mobile content incorporating real-time global, local and personal streams of big data into mobile gameplay providing players with a great new experience in a constantly changing, context-aware game environment.

Stuart Duncan, icejam founder previously worked on hit free-to-play mobile games NBA Jam, Trade Nations and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Electronic Arts (EA) acquired Bight Games in Aug 2011.

icejam

Execution Labs is a first-of-its kind, hybrid game incubator and go-to-market accelerator that helps independent game developers produce games and bring them to market. The company’s goal is to enable experienced developers to become true entrepreneurs and pursue their dreams of creative independence. It is based in Montreal with a business outpost in San Francisco.

Execution Labs

Mentor

Adrenaline Amusements acquired Sarbakan in May 2013

Founded in 1998, Sarbakan delivers memorable and high quality experiences for its worldwide publishing partners and customers. From online and iOS titles to downloadable handheld and console games, Sarbakan has created over 800 titles since its inception and also offers a wide variety of mobile and digital console game development services. World-renowned media and entertainment giants such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Namco-Bandai, Square-Enix, Electronic Arts, Turner Broadcasting System, News Corp, Ubisoft, Playmobil, and Kabam turn to Sarbakan for its unique and insanely creative approach to creating original IPs.

Sarbakan (sold to Adrenaline Amusements)

Investor and Board Member - Corporate Development & Strategy

Sherpa RTLS Solutions Inc,. offers a range of mobile applications as well as software & hardware solutions to hundreds of conferences & tradeshows across continents.
Sherpa has proven its leadership in bringing to market meaningful solutions to the event industry with its ActivLocator revolutionary geolocation solution as well as its ActivTouch family of mobile products. ActivTouch was awarded the prestigious EIBTM Worldwide Technology Watch award in Barcelona, Spain. Sherpa has launched ActivMetrics, a technology which uses a number of Wi-Fi sensors to provide tradeshow organizers with accurate heat maps of the entire show floor helping them introduce zone pricing. Clients include among others: Reed Exhibition USA, Reed Latin America, Reed France, UBM Canon, Nielsen, Questex, Penton, as well as a large number of professional associations.

Sherpa RTLS Solutions

Electronic Arts (EA) acquired Bight Games in Aug 2011.

Bight Games was a leading, innovative developer and publisher of social mobile games and mobile entertainment content. Bight created a portfolio of compelling mobile games Utilizing Bight’s proprietary bightCode™.
Bight Games leading game creation, Trade Nations ™ was declared at that time as “the best social game we’ve seen on the iPhone yet” by Jim Squires at Gamezebo.
Bight conceived, developed and produced the Top Grossing Electronic Arts' mega hit “The Simpsons: Tapped Out” which eclipsed over $300 million in life-to-date digital net revenue, and has been constantly in the top 20 iPhone grossing games in the U.S, since launching in August 2012.”

Bight Games (sold to Electronic Arts)

Shareholder - Corporate Development & Strategy

In charge of Mobitween's Financing, Business & M&A strategy, leading to its acquisition by Zed Group in September 2008.

Zed, the multiplatform digital entertainment company, developed and marketed entertainment and community products and services. The company was at that time the leading mobile value-added services (MVAS) player in the world in terms of revenue and geographical footprint. Zed operated in 60 countries, including Europe's largest markets, USA, India and China and holds agreements with more than 130 wireless operators all over the world.

Mobitween was a leading developer and publisher of Flash based games for mobile and online worlds.
By leveraging its Flash based mobile game development the company introduced ugenGames, a web 2.0 User Generated Content and Social Networking Service. Mobitween's goal was to be the first Game 2.0 company bridging the gap between online & mobile game developers and players, allowing them to create, customize, embed and share games.

Mobigamz, the world's first Flash Lite based mobile gaming portal, a client-server vending machine that replicates the web browsing model enabling players to download, play, rate and post hi-scores through a rich-media and customizable Flash Lite client was one of the first of its kind to be launch in 2008 by Verizon Wireless (USA) and Orange Group (Europe).

Mobitween (sold to Zed Group)

Shareholder - General Manager

Major achievements: Instrumental in both acquisition and integration of targeted companies before Airborne itself was sold  for over $100 million to Cybird of Japan in 2005 and was honored the following year as North America’s 4th-Fastest Growing Tech Company in Deloitte’s Fast 500 ranking.

Merger & Acquisition; overall mid and long term Business, Corporate Strategy and Vision; International Distribution.

Airborne Entertainment was the leading turnkey mobile publisher, creating, deploying, distributing and managing the most compelling mobile games and entertainment for the world's most recognizable media and consumer brands. Airborne Entertainment distributes its specialty channels and programs to all top-tier wireless carriers, reaching nearly 100% of all enabled mobile subscribers in North America.

Airborne Entertainment Inc. (sold to Cybird)

Vice President, Corporate Development and M&A

Director of Business Development (Europe and Asia)
Pre-sale, Partnership and Marketing for OZ Mobile IM Gateway Solution (Integrators, Carriers)
Involved in the definition and implementation of Company Strategy for Third party, Hosting and Managed Services Selection.

OZ Communications

Director of Business Development

Picatel Multimodal Wireless Vocal Navigation Solution (Think about Siri :-)

Director of Sales & Business Development, (North America & Europe)
Pre-sale, Partnership and Marketing.
Major achievements: Endorsement by Orange World, Bouygues and T-Mobile leading to strategic trials and partnerships. Involved in the definition and implementation of Company Strategy, marketing, operations and Product road map.

Picatel Systems (sold to confidential)

Director of Sales & Business Development

Managing Director, Europe (Paris, Madrid, Dublin and London Offices)
-  General Manager, Canada
Responsible for Business Development in North America; Pre-sale and Marketing for both Servers & Mobile Based Entertainment Services.
Major achievements: Signed the first two North American Agreements for the company.
Set up all aspect of the Canadian Indiqu subsidiary (office & team).
Established a leading position for Indiqu within the Wireless Entertainment Industry.
Agreements with 20 leading carriers (including leading carriers in North America such as Bell Mobility , Rogers Wireless, Telus Mobility, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint PCS, Nextel,  and carriers in Europe, such as Bouygues Telecom,Orange, Telefonica, KPN, Mobistar, Eircell and others).

Indiqu Inc. (sold to Mforma/Hands-On Mobile)

Managing Director, Europe

Dec 98 to Mar 2000	Schlumberger Test & Transactions, Smart Card & Terminals, North America
Director, Solutions Sales, Mobile Communications Solutions
Marketing & Consulting Manager, Mobile Communications Solutions (based in Canada)
Responsible for Business Development in North America, Pre-sale and Marketing for both Systems & Servers (Over the Air Platform) and Java based SIM cards Applications.
Major achievements: Successful commercial introduction of an innovator Mobile Banking value added services for the first time in North America and one of the first in the world.
Jan 97 to Dec 98	Schlumberger Test & Transactions, Smart Card Division, Montrouge France
Product Marketing Manager, Mobile Communications
Introduction of a new innovator product: Over The Air Customization (OTAC).
Guest speaker at key conferences in the field of Mobile Communications; such as Pre-Payment and Value Added Services. ETSI – Special Mobile Group representative.

Schlumberger (now Gemalto)

Director, Solutions Sales, Mobile Communications Solutions

I B M Corbeil Essonne France, (while studying at the same time)
Technical leader within a Semiconductor wafer production line:
Hot process, doping and epitaxy of the silicon substrate.

Marc Alloul