Olivier Bernard
Directeur Associé, Optigreen Consulting
Global project and marketing management with business, marketing, and product management in emerging technologies. Achievements in quality and quantity.
More than 10 years of experience in technical, human, sales and marketing activities in an international environment.
Specialities:
- Marketing Strategy;
- IT Strategy;
- Management, Organisation and Finance;
- Green IT;
- Partnership development and IT strategy;
- Sales and business development;
- Project Management;
- Information System: Design and Architecture; Technical background.
Consulting for innovation and optimisation of IT infrastructure
Optigreen Consulting is a Consulting company providing services to help CIO in defining the IT strategy, buiding financial model, and follow up the company on the road to transformation. The objective is to optimise the return on funding for the IT services and change the place of IT in the company. We are helping companies on the way to Cloud Computing.
Optigreen Consulting - http://www.optigreenconsulting.com/
2007 - 2008VMware is facing a strong expansion, between 80 and 100%. In order to follow the group growth, an alliance team was created to initiate and manage the relationship with other technology vendors. I was promoted to this team.
- Develop and manage the strategic partnerships in EMEA with software vendors, supporting an activity of $500M (2008), the major 2008 partners are SAP, BEA, NetApp, EMC, Intel and Cisco for the region.
- Recruit Software Vendors based in EMEA, from 11 partners to 100 EMEA partnership signed in 2007,
- Support marketing events for the global companies,
Work with local and global players to enable the use and support of VMware products in their solutions,
- Prepare common go to market strategies,
Influence Software companies strategies to push the inclusion of virtualisation concept and products,
- Negotiate and manage partnership.
2008 - 2010KAPPA GROUP : Add value by innovation
KAPPA is an independent group providing Consulting and Integration services, acting as a leader in optimizing IT infrastructures services. Since 1996, more than 300 European organizations (20% of French CAC 40 and 15% of Fortune 100) are working with certified experts of Kappa Group to reduce costs, risks, provide a better quality of services, add operational agility and create a key competitive advantage.
The KAPPA Group is currently acting in France and Spain.