Romain Niccoli

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

2019 - Current

Advisor

2018 - 2021

Advisor

2018 - 2020

As a member of the advisory board, I help the company on technology and organization topics (scaling the engineering team).

Co-founder and CTO

2017 - 2018

Less built a platform to provide a cheaper and greener alternative to taxi/e-hailing for short distance urban transportation. The company was sold to Blablacar in May of 2018.

Advisor

2017 - 2018

Advisor to the company leadership group, mostly on tech and product topics.

Co-founder & CTO

2005 - 2016

As a cofounder of Criteo, I have lived the transformation of the 2005 start-up to a worldwide industry leader doing 1.8B$ of revenues in 2016, with an IPO on the Nasdaq in 2013. My role as a CTO has been first to design the first versions of the technology stack and then to grow our R&D team to several hundred engineers. In the last years, I have also served as HR Director and Chief Product Officer.

Software Engineering Manager

2000 - 2005

I worked on security components (authentication, authorization and auditing) of several versions of Windows.

Software Development Engineer

1999 - 2000

I added fault tolerance, load balancing and high availability features to the online translation platform.

Software Development Engineer

1999 - 1999

I added features in a seismic data processing software to remotely preview (over internet) huge data sets produced by oil prospecting boats.