François Claustres

Conseil en entreprises innovantes

38GrenobleRhône-Alpes - France

Since 1997 I’m involved the development of innovative companies, first as founder of JeuxVideo.com then as an investor in innovative companies with my own startup fund Claustres Conseil Internet, always in a spirit of value creation in the long term and with close proximity with entrepreneurs. I advise since 2004 innovative companies in areas as diverse as cloud computing, e-commerce, VOIP ...

François Claustres
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Since 2000

Claustres Conseil Internet owns shares in companies like RAPHAEL MICHEL SA (formerly ADVENDI SA) or MADE IN DESIGN ( www.madeindesign.com ).
Since 2004 the experience I gathered in coaching the management of these companies led me to become a business development consultant.

Organization and Strategy
Professional experience
2010 - 2011

Onlymee Interactive is the editor of the Onlymee biometric authentification middleware solution.

Software publishers
2009 - 2011

MGI has developed Onlymee®, an innovative solution for easy and secured transactions

IT - Telecommunications
2006 - 2007

AGE Studio is developping historical simulation & strategic videogames.
It has been founded after the major success of Birth of America ( www.birth-of-america.com ), the first game edited by AGEOD ( www.ageod.com ).
The development team is leaded by Philippe THIBAUT, well known for his past creations (Europa Universalis...).
Other titles are on the way for this studio, which will become a specialist for serious historical games.
AGE Studio is member of LYON GAME ( www.lyongame.com )

Software publishers
2005 - 2006

Made in Design ( www.madeindesign.com ) is the leading French e-commerce website for design furnitures, with major brands like Kartell, Magis, Serralunga...
I helped operationally the top management in order to pursue the quick growth of this company.

e-commerce and distance selling
2004 - 2005

I was consultant partner in Tempo Line, which has stakes in different new emerging sectors, in USA & in Europe.

Organization and Strategy
2002 - 2003

ADVENDI is now a holding that owns a major wine wholesaler in Orange (south of France), RAPHAEL MICHEL SA. We made it public in january 2004, at the Paris stock exchange [MLRAM].

Trade - Industrial Wholesale Trade
1997 - 2000

JeuxVideo.com is the most prestigious and most accurate video game dedicated site from France. Since april 2000, JeuxVideo.com is a subsidiary of GameLoft SA (UbiSoft SA), one of the two major french video game company.

Multimedia - Internet
1997 - 1999

Writer of the Internet heading news.

Press and editorial
Education
Hobbies
Footing , sky , tennis , gastronomy , video games

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