At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top France based COO’ operating in the SaaS space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Florian Bressand
Chief Operating Officer of Mirakl
Florian joined Mirakl‘s executive team as Chief Operating Officer in 2017. He oversees and organizes ongoing operations, actively supports Sales and Customer success teams, and takes an active part in all strategic decisions. Florian joined Mirakl after 13 years at McKinsey, where he served players in retail and services in over 25 countries. Florian graduated from HEC and holds an Msc in management CEMS.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Jonathan Anguelov
Co-founder & COO of Aircall
Jonathan has always had entrepreneurship in his DNA, and has a particular passion for real estate. After working in La City in London, he co-founded Aircall in 2014 and build the whole sales organization. Jonathan studied Finance at ESCP Europe.
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About Aircall: Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.
Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines
Co-founder & COO of Dfns
Since 2010, I’ve co-founded 4 companies, raised $10M, hired +40 employees, pioneered an SSE-based alt venue in France (Aion, a cooperative organizing 250 free concerts per year, selling 100% organic & fair trade food, ranked 1 of 334 in South-West of France on TripAdvisor), built a professional network for entrepreneurs with a community of 30k+ users (Jollyclick) and a professional networking app (Purpl) ranking me #182 among the Top Networking App Founders on Crunchbase in 2020. Presently, I’m the co-founder & CGO of Dfns (Techstars ’21), a dev tool providing custody as a service for cryptocurrencies. Blockchain is changing finance much like internet changed communication—forever. It’s an eye-opening technology that is revolutionizing the way we trade and transfer money as worldwide transactions become cheaper, faster, more open and more reliable. However, blockchain has one Achilles heel we call the private key. More than $200 billion worth of bitcoin have already been lost, and in almost all cases, the losses were caused by private key theft or misuse. Today, I’m on a mission to deliver inner peace to crypto. Dfns provides a safe, cloud-native API that gives banks, investors and companies the freedom to enter crypto markets on a battle-designed security infrastructure. We are building the future of crypto banking, brick by brick. HMU on Twitter @christophergdf or email me [email protected]
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About Dfns, Purpl: The security suite for crypto custody
Emmanuelle Fauchier Magnan
Co Founder and COO of Skello
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About Skello: Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll.
Lucien Besse
COO & Co-founder of Shippeo
Lucien is in charge of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success at Shippeo. Before founding Shippeo he worked in Private Equity at Vermeer Capital. Lucien holds a masters degree in Finance and Strategy from Sciences Po.
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About Shippeo: Shippeo is a supply chain visibility platform that provides shippers instant access to predictive information of all deliveries.
Nicolas Pages
COO of Scalefast
Nicolas Pages currently serves Scalefast as chief operating officer.
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About Scalefast: Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands.
Nicolas Fritz
COO of Contentsquare
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About Contentsquare: Contentsquare develops a digital experience analytics platform that enables businesses to track online customer behavior.
Marc Bonnamour
Chief Operating Officer of Talentsoft
Marc Bonnamour has over 20 years’ experience working with some of the fastest growing companies, more specifically in the SaaS sectors in France and in the US. He’s held senior executive positions in the financial and operational departments at Deloitte, LVMH, and TraceOne. As Chief Operating Officer Marc is in charge of Talentsoft’s operations, managing global sales and delivery teams.
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About Talentsoft: Talentsoft is the European leader in cloud-based talent management and learning software.
Jean-François Grang
COO & co-founder of Purchasely
Co-founder & COO of Purchasely, the leading In-App subscription platform. Among the 500 first iOS dev World Wide. Developed over 40 apps since 2008 mainly for startups. Built OCTO mobile team then app A•Z mobile agency. In-App Purchase & Mobile Apps expert.
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About 2 App à Z, Purchasely: SaaS, Payment, Subscription platform, Mobile App, TV App
Florent Fabre
COO of Neoxam
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About Neoxam: Neoxam designs and creates professional software for asset managers.
Barbara Bonneau
Chief Operating Officer of Universign
Barbara Bonneau is the COO of
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About Universign: Universign is the developer of a SaaS based electronic signature, server stamp, timestamp and identity management software and tools.
Alexis TEPLITCHI
COO & Founder of AssessFirst
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About AssessFirst: AssessFirst is a SaaS software to identify applicants with the highest potential for future success and job match in your company.
Ghislain Ulrich
COO, General Manager of Genymobile
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About Genymobile: Genymobile help enterprises build their future with Android.
Benoit Aubas
Co-founder & COO of Wazo
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About Wazo: Building the future of open communication. #UCaaS #CPaaS
Thomas Lagier
Co-Founder and COO of ForCity
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About ForCity: ForCity is SaaS firm that uses 4D simulation to support decision making for tomorrow’s smart cities.
Jonathan Attal
COO & Co-Founder of SimpliField
Jonathan Attal is COO and Co-founder of SimpliField. After working in auditing at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he joined Wengo, where he evolved as Business Analyst and finance controller during 5 years. He participated in numerous due diligences and follow the external growth projects development. Jonathan is truly passionate about numbers, playing with excel and database for data mining. Jonathan has a double degree from SupInfo and HEC.
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About SimpliField: SimpliField is a B2B SaaS product mastering field intelligence.
Victor Payan
COO & Co-founder of Ermeo
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About Ermeo: Ermeo standardize your business processes and create more collaboration between your teams.
Jeremy Attuil
COO and Co-Founder of Libeo
Jeremy Attuil is the COO and Co-Founder at Libeo.
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About Libeo: Libeo is on a mission to simplify processing and payment of account payables for SMEs.
Jamal Labed
Co-Founder & COO of EasyVista
Cofounder & COO at EasyVista.
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About EasyVista, Seed4Soft: ITSM and Self Help Software That Makes it Easy to Deliver Services to Employees and Customers
Rémi Lesaint
Co-founder – COO of Edflex
Rémi Lesaint is the Co-Founder and COO at Edflex.
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About Edflex: Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
Lionel Grivel
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of LumApps
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About LumApps: LumApps is a social, mobile, and smart intranet to connect and engage all employees in a central hub.
Stéphane Ankaoua
COO of Oodrive
Graduate of ISG and Sciences Po, Stéphane Ankaoua served during his first 9 years career as Business Developper and Sales Director at Findexa, then Managing Director of Alcal Chimie. Between 2004 and 2010, he joined Hypred as Business Unit Director, then VP Sales & Marketing at MLstate (Wallix Group). In 2010, he joined GLS France, one of the leading parcel and express service providers in France and worldwide, and successively held the positions of Regional Director South West and Sales and Marketing Director, before joining Oodrive as Chief Operations Officer in 2018.
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About Oodrive: Oodrive is a software as a service organization providing secure online file management solutions for companies.
Gregoire Boutin
COO and Founder of Boostrs
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About Boostrs: Boostrs is a HR SaaS platform that helps organizations succeed in their transformation.
Svetlana Pogodina
COO of Artifakt
Expert in business intelligence and international business support to multinational companies. Arti-muse.
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About Artifakt: Artifakt is a developer of cloud application tool designed to help build smarter, faster and better manage all custom business applications.
Maxime Wagner
Co-Founder and COO of Captain Contrat
Maxime Wagner is Captain Contrat’s Co-Founder & COO.
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About Captain Contrat: Captain Contrat is a legal and administrative pillar that accompanies VSEs and SMEs in all stages of the development.
Frédéric Pichard
CEO, COO, Co-Founder & B2B Sales Intelligence Platform of SPARKLANE
Frédéric Pichard is the COO / Co-Founder / B2B Sales Intelligence Platform at Sparklane
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About SPARKLANE: SaaS Predictive Lead Scoring Solution – Sparklane help marketer and sales people to target “the most likely to buy” companies
Vincent Encontre
COO of Intuiface
Vincent Encontre serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of IntuiLab SA, a software startup developing innovative graphical user interface (GUI) technology. Vincent Encontre has more than 20 years of experience with software startups and large companies such as IBM in various positions like product management, strategy, acquisition and business development. Vincent Encontre has been Vice-President of Supervisory Board at CoFluent Design SA since April 2007.
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About Intuiface: no-code platform dedicated to the creation, integration, deployment, and analysis of interactive digital experiences for physical spaces
Nicolas André
COO & Co-Founder of Jenji
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About Jenji: Jenji is one of the leading enterprise expense management solution.
Sylvain Gasc
Co-Founder and COO of Hivency
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About Hivency: Hivency is an integrated, end-to-end solution that enables brands to discover influencers, and scale micro influencer marketing strategy.
Victor Matei
COO of Keymetrics
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About Keymetrics: Keymetrics offers innovative monitoring for Node.js based on PM2.
Thomas Dubois
COO & Co-Founder of Archipad
Thomas grew up in a web world and has a real and strong expertise in this field. So much that he even teaches graduates at the University of Aix-Marseille II. Open minded, and working countless hours, Thomas is capable of finding adapted solutions in terms of performances and cost to the most complex problems. His curiosity has also made him naturally responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the company.
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About Archipad: Archipad is an intuitive ipad app to efficiently create and send reports, manage observations, punch lists, drawings and on-site meetings.
Sebastien Levy
COO of Wedia
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About Wedia: Wedia’s DAM and MRM make it easy for international brands to create, manage, deliver and score marketing content from a single platform.
Ziad Khoury
Co-Founder & COO of Padam
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About Padam: Padam offers AI & mobile powered SaaS solutions for on-demand transit.
Romain Legresy
COO of Inqom
Roman Legresy True digital native, Romain has always been attentive to technological developments and particularly to social networks. Multidisciplinary he was actor in various industries: design, music and community management. After a detour to Los Angeles he returned to Paris and works on the digital strategy of 2 artists to bring its expertise and vision of entertainment. Then he was contacted by Romain Passilly Fred co-founder of the challenge that counted in a dusty field well and in which there is everything to do: accounting!
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About Inqom: Inqom is an accounting software based on AI which automates bookkeeping and generates balance sheet in real time.
Abdel Kander
COO of ForePaaS
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About ForePaaS: ForePaaS provides a multi-cloud platform of data engineering to scale and secure data projects in record time.
Anaïs Demaison
Co-Founder and COO of Reelevant
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About Reelevant: Data-driven visual content engine for people, not campaigns
Sébastien Bencherqui
CEO/Co-Founder/COO of Bubblz
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About Bubblz: Bubblz software allows users to monitor, secure, and analyze easily their workflow in order to run process efficiency.
Aurore Beugniez
COO of MyFeelBack
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About MyFeelBack: Ask the right question, to the right people, at the right time.