Eric Extier

Summary:
International Business development & recovery experience for more than 20 years with :
- Dual experience in B2B (Telecom) and B2C (Multimedia & Mobile).
- Profitability improvement of Profit Centers.
- Experience in various channels: Retail, Carriers, OEM, Distributors, Resellers, VAR.
- Skills in Managing changes & Team building.
- Entrepreneur behavior.
- Transversal vision of electronic markets.
Growing start-up company or emerging Business Unit into leaders. As General Manager and EMEA Director of Business Unit, full responsibility of the P&L and budget control.
Launched partnership with Skype at their early stage and pushing adoption of Internet Telephony in consumer.

Specialties/achievements:
Successful experience in EMEA channel development in both BtoC (Consumer electronics) and BtoB (IT) :
- Retail Mobile & Multimedia: FNAC, Media Markt, DSGi, Carrefour, Auchan, The Phone House, Comet, Saturn, Darty, Boulanger, Casino, JLP, Surcouf, Tesco, Euroset, …
- Carriers: Orange, SFR, Bouygues, Carphone Warehouse, …
- Telecom reseller channel including VAR programs
- OEM Business in the PC and Telecom markets.
Established Plantronics Headsets in the Contact Center segment and Enterprises.