Philippe DEWOST👨🏻‍💻

Summary

High-Tech executive with a unique 360° experience : startups, corporate, Venture, public funding programs, higher education. Core skills in business development & strategy, a major in consumer technology, and a passion for transmitting knowledge, inspiration and curiosity to wide audiences ranging from students to senior executives. I am convinced that education is one of the toughest and critical challenges for this century, and even a strategic endeavor when it comes to Tech. Thinking out of the box is an everyday driver. Former CEO and Dean of EPITA, one of the best European Engineering School in Computer Sciences(*). While in office, I led the school transformation towards scalability and optimized efficiency, grew the student base, opened new Bachelors and raised the institution's reputation to unprecedented levels in both corporate and public sectors. Former CEO of a Cambridge (UK) imaging startup acquired by Apple Ran a worldwide innovation and digital transformation program for VINCI, spanning 100 countries and 200.000 employees. Author of the french best-seller "De Mémoire Vive" book (a history of the past 30 years in High Tech), and have developed a practice as international keynote speaker for institutional and private executive audiences. ACHIEVEMENTS 📖 Writer and best-seller author 👉🏼 Senior Executive roles in large private and state organisations (8 digits P&L - 9 digits investments) ⚡️ Sparked La French Tech 👩🏻‍💻 Executive roles in 2 startups, and CEO of a third one acquired by Apple 🖥 Co-founded Wanadoo (Orange France Telecom internet service) EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS ⚙️ Run : up to €350M P&L, Marketing across multiple geographies, recruiting and managing multicultural teams 🏗 Build : Strategy, Business Development, Industrial Ecosystems, Blockchain Consortiums 💡 Think : Hardware Software Services platforms and ecosystems 🚸 Lead : Build and manage teams, drive cross company projects, serve on boards 👉🏼 Inspire : Turn trend detection into anticipations and exploration by embarking CEOs and board members 📣 Share : vision, achievements, and analysis through keynotes, content curation, and a book. CONTACT 📧 : philippe [at] dewost [dot] com // http://phileos.eu (*) : About EPITA — With 3500+ students, spanning across 7 cities, EPITA is the engineering flagship of the IONIS Higher Education Group (35000 students across 29 schools). EPITA is renowned for its extremely high standard of software engineering through an innovative in-depth training approach deployed on an unrivaled teaching infrastructure.