Philippe Dewost Keynote - OCP EU Summit

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OCP European Summit - 30-31 Oct 2014 - École Polytechnique, Paris, France Philippe DEWOST Deputy Director, in charge of Digital Economy «Investments for the Future» Program Caisse des Dépôts Philippe Dewost is an executive with a dual corporate & startup track in high tech and telecom, and has been recognized over the past 15 years as an innovation driven, game changing, and inspiring leader. As Wanadoo co-founder, he helped build Europe’s #1 ISP, held senior marketing and business positions in european startups, relaunched Orange France Telecom’s home devices business successfully, and ran a Cambridge (UK) imaging startup that was acquired by Apple in 2010. Philippe DEWOST joined Caisse des Dépôts in 2011 to drive a 4.25 Bn€ public funding effort in France’s Digital Economy, as part of the «Investment for the Future» program launched by the Government in 2010. This effort covered both infrastructure (FTTH, broadband) as well as R&D; (Nanotechnologies, e-Health, e- Education, Big Data...) and financing companies in the sector from startups to industrial projects, like Cloudwatt where he serves as a Board Member. During the first half of 2013, Philippe lead a Caisse des Dépôts Team mandated by France’s Prime Minister to elaborate recommendations for French Digital ecosystems. The report was downloaded more than 10.000 times and gave birth to La French Tech initiative announced by Minister Fleur Pellerin on January 29th 2014 with €215 M of public funding –http://en.lafrenchtech.com Philippe is also advising Caisse des Dépôts Executive Committee on its Digital Transformation. Philippe was CEO of Imsense ltd., a Cambridge based imaging company that had developed advanced, patented relighting algorithms. Recruited by the board in 2009 to turn the technology into a business, he branded and deployed Imsense’s «Eye-FidelityTM» technology across the image processing industry, signed licensing agreements with photography software experts while deploying the software onto smartphone platforms and showcasing Eye-Fidelity potential in automated video processing. Philippe helped Imsense win several awards and raise its profile in the Bay Area before accepting and negotiating an acquisition offer by Apple in Q3 2010: Eye-Fidelity technology is now deployed across most iDevices and Macs. Between 2006 and 2009, Philippe DEWOST was VP Marketing and Business Development with Realeyes3D then becaming GM Europe, and helped t his mobile imaging specialist deploy its proprietary, camera based handwritten messaging and motion sensing software in more than 120 millions handsets from vendors such as Nokia, Samsung or Sanyo. Philippe DEWOST had been appointed VP Home Devices for France Telecom Orange in 2003, in charge of a 8-digit P&L.; His mission was to rebuild a team, a product line, and the relationship with device and software vendors. He recruited 25 people, doubled both range depth and refreshment rate, therefore reigniting the product category while optimizing the mix: the cordless segment grew by 60% in 2,5 years. Philippe also structured a complete Group Level ranging program, and drove the launch of color home phones, videotelephones for the «Videotelephony+» Project, worked on the early stages of the Livebox, started the Home Gateway Initiative and prototyped the first Wideband Audio handset (Livephone HD). He had joined Ukibi in 1999, as VP Business Development. Ukibi was a pioneer in the Unified Address Book arena, headquarted in New York’s Silicon Alley and backed by Mars Capital, Europ@web and Vivendi Universal. Philippe DEWOST drove partnerships and product strategy where he pioneered support for the SyncML protocol. He joined France Telecom in 1995, to help start the company’s next generation of online services, that ultimately became Wanadoo, where he built and ran the consumer facing services team. Aged 45, Philippe is a seasoned bilingual keynote speaker, has served on several startup boards, and advised senior executives on their consumer cloud strategies. A graduate in Physics from Normale Sup and in Telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech, he holds a MBA from College des Ingénieurs. He currently lives in Paris with his wife and their four children.