Jean-Pierre Gressin
Head, Corporate Business development, Partnerships & Alliances
What drives me....innovate for Mass and Emerging Markets!
12 years international experience in high-tech and Telecoms, working with a wide range of industry leaders in technological innovation & value added services.
Entrepreneurial and business driven professional with ability to establish large professional network and drive complex international projects & partnerships.
112 contactsCreate, head and develop mobile product line's partnerships activity, in order to grow business on innovation and valued added services for mobile operators, focusing on Emerging markets and Latin America.
I identify new markets, network and lobby with key industry players, assess enterprises of interest, develop alliances with selected partners, manage business development and coordinate global marketing and sales operations worldwide.
The activity has developed partnerships with worldwide telecom & internet industry leaders, whose core business complements Oberthur's smart cards & wireless solutions portfolio in:
• Payment: Contactless/NFC, Wireless authentication, Mobile payment and banking, Electronic prepaid top-up, Mobile money and remittance
• Social networking: Instant messaging, Address book & multimedia content synchronization
• Devices: Smartphone UI personalization, Mobile device management, M2M
• Network: Location based services, Roaming, Dynamic mobile number allocation
2005 - 2007Develop, manage & market a portfolio of SIM-based value added services for Mobile operators worldwide.
Product management and strategic roadmap design; Sales support for EMEA, APAC and Latin America; Speaker in Congresses & Conferences worldwide; SIMAlliance member on multimedia innovation;
Oberthur Technologies is a worldwide leader in Smart Cards for ID, Banking & Mobile, with a customer basis of 300+ Mobile carriers / 6000 Banks worldwide, reaching a global turnover of 1.34 billion USD in 2010.
2004 - 2005Manage projects and team for the development of Multimedia applications embedded in mobile handsets for emerging countries like China and Brazil.
2003 - 2003Develop network services used by 15 000 Air France Flight attendants in airports worldwide.
Air France KLM is the 1st Airline group worldwide with 24.11 billion euros turnover in 2007-2008
2001 - 2003Develop and commercialise a state-of-the-Art Audio technology of sound recognition for automatic music transcription for recording companies and musicians in France, USA, UK & Brazil.
Set up and manage business start up; Handle marketing and sales of professional services; Develop scientific tools and software to research in the fields of Audio, Acoustics and digital Signal processing; Perform legal studies on Intellectual property