Christophe Davy

CEO, 41

Christophe has a mixed profile of executive and entrepreneur.

Former CIO of Beauté Prestige International (Perfumes Jean Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Narciso Rodriguez), member of the Board of Directors, Christophe managed the Jean Paul Gaultier Parfums Online Flagship Store from its opening in 2005 until 2008.

Prior to Beauté Prestige International, Christophe led during four years the Retail IT Department at Louis Vuitton, in charge of the retail system of 300 stores worldwide.

During the 90's, Christophe has been involved in the creation, the growth and the selling of several companies into the IT and internet industries, including French-based search engine Lokace.com, founded in 1995, and French-based free email provider Caramail.com, founded in 1997.

Christophe has a business school diploma.

Antoine d’Arifat

Associate Director, 41

Antoine has a 3-fold profile, with technical, financial and marketing skills.

As head of the Marketing Department of Olympus France until 2007, Antoine was responsible for managing the company’s advertising, promotional campaigns and public relations. Member of the European Olympus Marketing Task Force, he drove Olympus Europe to have a more users benefit oriented communication.

Previously, as Toshiba France Marketing Manager, he improved national video recorder sales position from #7 to #2 and successfully launched DVD-Audio players range.

Before 1999, Antoine built a Finance-oriented career, with a various range of positions from Financial Controller to Treasurer.

Antoine has both engineer and business school diplomas.

Arnold Pouteau

Managing Director USA, 35

Arnold carries both technological and marketing skills.

As a former AVP of ecommerce and CRM at Lancôme USA, Arnold was responsible for technical support, design and business development of lancome.com website, the reference "Online Flagship Store" in the Luxury and Beauty sector.

From 2001 to 2006, as a eBusiness Director at L'Oreal, in France and USA, Arnold led the major ecommerce initiatives of the group.

Prior to 2001, he worked a number of years on various intranets of L'Oreal in France.

Arnold has an engineer diploma.

François Ziserman

CTO, 45

François has a strong set of technical and ecommerce skills, along with an entrepreneurial background.

As an ecommerce expert, François has worked for some of the major European ecommerce sites (Alapage, ViaMichelin, Jean Paul Gaultier) during the past two years. He provided them with crucial technical and ergonomic analysis and recommendations focusing on an increase of the turnover.

From 1999 to 2006, François was involved in several innovative projects. As an entrepreneur, he founded Wokup!, a company dedicated to the mobile software industry, that he later sold in 2002. He also founded Medience, a database software company, which was sold to Business Objects in 2004. More recently, he had worked for Orange mobile company on the convergence between internet, phone and TV services.

During the 90's, François worked for several IT and telecoms companies, including the R&D team at France Telecom.