Vincent is the founder of Metaspex. He spent his entire career in the technology industry, in research, engineering, team management and business responsibilities.

He worked successively for the largest ERP vendor in Europe (now IBM), Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium), ILOG (now IBM) an INRIA startup spinoff, and Amadeus, the travel technology leader.

At Amadeus, he and the team he hired built all the layers from iron and up that allow Amadeus to sustain 40,000 transactions per second, the largest business application in amount of traffic processed.

Vincent lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Bjarne, Metaspex’s technology advisor and C++ inventor, has garnered prestigious awards including the 2018 Draper Prize and the Faraday Medal. His work spans academia and industry, influencing software globally—even on Mars Rovers. His lifetime achievements in C++ enable Metaspex’s unmatched software abstraction and performance.

• Designer and original implementer of C++
• Professor at Columbia University in New York City
• Draper Prize recipient
• NAE member
• Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
• Fellow ACM, IEEE, CHM
• Fellow AT&T, Bell Labs

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Jean-Philippe, a seasoned professional, founded ITS4T in 2016, specializing in advising airlines on IT and distribution services sourcing strategies. With a rich background at Amadeus IT Group spanning nearly three decades, he excelled in various leadership roles, driving relationships with airlines and managing substantial P&L. His expertise extends to solution development and management, backed by a civil engineering degree from Supélec, France.

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She has an extensive managerial experience (400+ FTEs). She is fearless and knows how to deliver the toughest projects. On top of this she is recognized for her world-class hiring skills.

She is one of these very scarce professionals who, in parallel of team management kept a deep technological hands-on expertise. In a world where half of the professionals have less than 3.5 years of experience, she cumulates an impressive decades-long know-how of back-end technology.

Julie worked for Continental Airlines, Connected Corporation, Iron Mountain Digital, Hewlett-Packard, Pearson Education, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, SilverRail (at the time an Expedia company). She is currently SVP of Content Technologies at Starz.

She has a Master in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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He is one of the founders of Talentware, a firm specialized in strategy and talent optimization. He works with companies that want to improve their performance, by federating their teams around a shared vision and aligning the right people for the right job. His approach is based on both C-level management consulting and talent software implementation. The goal is always to help change-oriented leaders build capabilities to push the boundaries even further.

Previously, he was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he led big projects mixing strategy, organization, and technology. As a manager at BNP Paribas, he had the opportunity to drive a very large-scale program to develop the leading European card payment platform, in cooperation with some competitors.

He holds a PhD in computer science based on the technology that inspired Metaspex.

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Bob advises Metaspex on so many fronts that it is impossible to list exhaustively. Bob is a seasoned entrepreneur, businessman, mentor, innovator and “connector”.

Bob Allard is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Extension Engine, a consultancy that helps design, build and grow custom learning experiences that deliver “great engagement at scale” for higher education, nonprofits and businesses, and Agilathon, a firm expert at designing, building, testing and supporting mobile clinical trials.

Prior to founding Extension Engine, he was a social worker and worked in the Boston tech economy. He has a passion for connecting people, ideas and technology, and holds a BA in Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross.

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Dan is the Chief Revenue Officer at Metaspex focused on business development and marketing strategies.

He has been selling strategy, design and engineering services since 2006 as well as serving in leadership roles  and advising a handful of technology startups.

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