Marc Jalabert

Partner

2018 - Current

Investor in early stage tech startups www.acecap.com

Président du Conseil

2019

Member

2011

General Manager Marketing & Operations

2016 - 2018

Drove overall business performance, cloud transformation and data/AI priority across commercial and consumer business for the 12 countries of Microsoft Western Europe [Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland]. Marketing, Product Management, PR, Compete, Customer and Partner satisfaction, Business Planning.

Consumer Channels Group General Manager

2011 - 2016

Launched and ran Microsoft's integrated consumer division in France. Full P&L responsibility accros retail and online consumer businesses : gaming, PCs, phones. Xbox, Surface, Kinect, Windows Phone, Windows, Office, Office365, retail and online sales, PC OEMs, Phone OEMs, Telcos partnerships, category marketing, trade marketing.

Business and Marketing Officer

2008 - 2011

Marketing and operations : drove overall performance and cloud transformation across commercial and consumer businesses for Microsoft in France. Led Microsoft's France move to new HQ in Issy-Les-Moulineaux. Contributed to Microsoft France's, first and so far only, best large business area of the world award within Microsoft.

Director of Platform & Ecosystem Division

2005 - 2008

Developer ecosystem at Microsoft France. Assembled a world class team of technical and developer evangelists who launched the first successful Microsoft program for startups (IDEES, which later morphed into global Bizspark), led the creation of the Microsoft Research and Inria joint research center in France, created Techdays (which quickly became the largest Microsoft tech event in Europe) and pionneered engagement with the broad open source developer community.

Director of Business Development

2003 - 2005

Business development : lead the overall Microsoft France transformation project and helped secure funding for strategic activities in following years (HQ move to Paris, research and education partnerships, startups/developers programs).

Sales Director - Telecom & Media Sector

2000 - 2003

Account Executive - Vivendi

1998 - 2000

Product Manager - Developer Tools

1994 - 1996

Product Manager - Windows NT

1992 - 1994

Program Manager - SQL Server R&D Team

1991 - 1992

Product Localization Manager

1990 - 1991

Product Localization Associate

1989 - 1990

Software Developer Internship

1988 - 1989

Le Lisp, X Window, Ilog Aida, graphs visualization

Founder & President

1988 - 1989

Founded Jetai and organized the first edition in Toulouse while student at Enseeiht.

President

1987 - 1988

President of Enseeiht engineering school Junior Entreprise