CEO Bloggers' Club

Introducing 4 new members

Eric Seulliet

Eric is CEO of E-Mergences, a network-based consultancy specialized in responsible foresight and innovation. E-Mergences
assists corporations in conceiving and creating the products and services of
tomorrow.
E-Mergences has recently launched its blog
and is also gathering - through its interactive portal - a community of people interested in such fields as foresight and innovation,
viewed through a "sustainable development " perspective. Eric is also the
co-author of a book "Fabriquer le futur", soon to be released (Village Mondial - january 2005)

Eric blogs daily at http://e-mergences.blogspirit.com

Introducing 5 new members

Mike Podanoffsky

I am the founder of a startup, ShareCube, focusing on security products. One form of spam mail are 'phishing' attempts that pretends to be from a financial institution and asks you to click, logon, and verify your account information. The web site is a copy of the financial institution's web site and the idea is to steal your account information and your money.

Doing a startup is great fun. I was CEO of Modtek, Inc back in the 1980's before I went on to a series of technical lead positions at IBM and Cisco Systems, Inc.

I find that I have been focusing on marketing and my weblog reflects comments on our positioning. I hope to change that soon to blog more about doing startups. I blog at sharecube.blogspot.com.

This idea of a ceo blog is really commendable and I have derived a great deal of value from your comments.

Mike
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"It's not what's behind us, and it's not what's ahead of us, but it's what's inside of us that matters."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Introducing 6 new members

Xavier de Mazenod

Founder and associate of Adverbe, agency specialised in contents for website and editing

 Before I ran a webagency and I was newspaper director and a freelance journalist for 14 years.

I just launched the Cyberworkers village in Normandy where you are all invited to settle : www.zevillage.net 

Xavier blogs daily at  www.adverbe.com 

Greetings

It's good to be aboard.

PR Machine
http://prmachine.blogspot.com

Introducing new members

Robb Hecht

His blog : PR Machine
Principal of Hecht Consulting

Known for ROI-focused brand advancement campaigns and strategies, Robb Hecht is a PR & marketing communications consultant experienced in partnering with some of America's respected Fortune 1000 corporations, Wall Street investment firms, start-ups, PR agencies, C-level executives, dot.coms and national magazine brands like Volt Information Sciences, E*TRADE Financial, Interpublic, Bozell Sawyer Miller Group, ProcureStaff, 24/7 Real Media, Euro RSCG, Winstar and the Industry Standard. He is producer of PR Machine, an online interactive vehicle for driving effective brand marketing communications.

Introducing 4 new members

Alain Hemelinckx

Currently heading Finaref E Business (subsidiary of Credit Agricole) whose mission is
to sell a wide range of consumer credit and insurance products + to gear different
private label cards (La Redoute, Fnac, Club Med, etc...). In the late 90ties, co founder of Web-Age, a leading (at that time) webvertising agency (customers were VW, l'Oreal, Danone, Publicis, Micorsoft,..)

Introducing 5 new members

Jeff Hoang
The founder of ReferNet has extensive enterprise software application development experience. He has held senior technical positions at Hewlett Packard, SGI, and several high-profile start-ups. He was a key employee at a start-up in 1998 that subsequently had a successful IPO in 1999. This company raised over $500 million and had a market cap well over $10 billion. The founder has a bachelor degree in applied science and engineering from Arizona State University.

Introducing 4 new members

From India

Yazad Jal is CEO of Praja Foundation (www.praja.org) which works in the area of good governance, largely with the local government in Mumbai (Bombay), India. Praja has developed citizens charters, conducted various performance surveys of the municipal corporation and jointly run an online complaint management system with the local governemnt.

Yazad studied economics and political science at St. Xavier's College

(www.xaviers.edu) and at the University of Bombay (http://www.mu.ac.in/). He was President of the Association of Youth for a Better India from 1997-98 and worked as Research Associate with the Centre for Civil Society (www.ccsindia.org), New Delhi from 1999-2001. Early on in his career, he worked in marketing with the Indian Market Research Bureau and Swastik Surfactants. Yazad has been involved with Praja from inception, and was a volunteer with Praja when it was a pilot project within AYBI.

Apart from Praja, Yazad runs a blog -- AnarCapLib (www.yazadjal.com) and is also active on various social networking sites like ryze (www.ryze.com/go/yazad), orkut, linkedin and multiply. His interests vary from applying the principles of libertarianism and objectivism to daily life to a good game of chess or scrabble.

From Germany

Siegfried Hirsch is the technical brain behind hhS (http://www.hhs.de), a company estalished in the early eighties.

Doing software consulting for different companies and setting up his own software recently with two social community tools (www.newsbee.de and www.thinkingspace.de) he is very interested in the blogosphere and content syndication possibilities. His strongest interests are now in the areas of knowledge management and enterprise communications. As a member in different multi author blogging teams in germany (www.kmu-blog.de and http://vnude.typepad.com/itfrontal/) he is now trying to cross the borders to learn and blog with international ceos.

From USA

John S Flowers was the lead architect of the InQuisit news clipping service, a former developer at Microsoft, and the founder of Hiverworld (now nCircle Network Security). He is the founder and CEO of kozoru, a next-generation search engine focusing on answers to questions instead of links to results based on keyword queries. He spends his time between his family, his company, liberal arts [writing, painting, being a philosopher) and his personal Journal at www.johnsflowers.com

From France

Eric Briys used to be Financial teacher in the USA, Canada, France, also working as business-banking (Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank), he is co-founder and CEO of www.cyberlibris.com and he blogs at http://cyberlibris.typepad.com .

(Eric, feel free to post a comment with some more precisions on your profile as I don't have lots of information...)

Introducing 5 new members

From Spain:
Alberto Knapp is CEO of The Cocktail, a User Experience consulting company in Madrid, Spain, and LaCoctelera.com, a blog company he just launched.

www.the-cocktail.com > the company (it has a company blog, of course)
www.the-mixer.net > personal blog
www.lacoctelera.com > just released!.

From Germany:

Klaus Eck is a German Corporate Communication expert with substantial experience in the internet and publishing business. He is the founder of the corporate communication agency econcon (http://www.econcon.de)which is focused on content services and PR for IT and media companies.

His Business Weblogs are:

PR Blogger: http://klauseck.typepad.com/prblogger/
cyDome: http://www.cydome.de
IT Frontal: http://vnude.typepad.com/itfrontal/

From the United States:

Peter Caputa is the President/Founder/Owner of WhizSpark, an angel investment backed event planning and promotions company and social networking site in one. His goal is to build an online media empire, one virtual brick at a time.

His weblog: http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/

also from the US I presume:

Paul Mooney is the CEO and the Maestro at Intune.Network.

He is blogging at : http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/

From Canada:

Alec Saunders is the CEO of Iotum Corporation, and the author of www.saunderslog.com.

Welcome !

Introducing Stefan Tilkov

Stefan is managing director/CEO of innoQ, a software consulting company based in Germany and Swizerland. He is blogging at www.innoq.com/blog/st/

Stefan has been kind enough to send me a small description of his activities that I publish below:

"Although Stefan does quite a bit of administrative stuff, he also trys to maintain some technical knowledge by consulting in customer projects while the company is still small enough for this to be feasible. His technical interests include large-scale software development, preferably using modern, object-oriented and/or component based techniques, and specifically two subareas - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA)."

Welcooome again Stefan ! ;o)

Introducing Pascal Mercier

Pascal has many informations on his profile as a LinkedIn member, and I have to choose part of it only, so I'll try to do the best selection.... Pascal, feel free to add your own words... This will be helpfull ;o)

"For the past four years, I have closed the record number of 20 private placements ranging from $2M to $15M for companies such as Soamaï, Kaidara, Temposoft, SWT, DO Labs, Tagsys or Boonty. More to come..."

"French market leader in private placements for fast companies. Entrepreneur, strategist, member of the board of venture backed companies and business angel. "

Introducing Elizabeth Albrycht

Elizabeth is co-founder, partner and chief strategist at Albrycht McClure & Partners, a US-based strategic communications consultancy. Her specific focus these days is on educating organizations about how to use new communications technologies to more effectively tell their stories.
She blogs daily at CorporatePR and spends most of her time in France.

Introducing Dragos Novac

Dragos is from Romania ! He is the CEO & co-founder of Krogos Software - a software development company located in Bucharest, Romania - and the blogger behind @rgumente.

As you can see, I am launching with Drago a new kind of "Introducing post" as I 've been including his photo... ;o) I got suddenly the idea, as I saw his picture on his blog ! ;o) Does someone else have a photo to provide me with.... ;o)

Introducing Adriana Cronin-Lukas

Adriana is one of the founding partners of The Big Blog Company that specialises in teaching companies how to employ blogs to communicate with their customers, run projects, manage crises etc ...

Adriana is based in the UK and will certainly be a fantastic animator and author for our club, due to her daily involvement in corporate blogging.

Introducing Amol Hatwar

Amol is based in India and is COO of Ecotal - Major & Minor Group. He is also the Founder, CEO at Pixelmunge.

Amol is our fist indian member, and I am more than happy to welcome him as the first member coming from this part of the world ! ;o)

Introducing Marc Goldberg

Marc is Managing partner of Occam Capital a VC focused on european innovative IT companies. His blog is there, and you can also learn more on Marc on this page.

Introducing Rodrigo A. Sepulveda Schulz

Rodrigo is co-founder & CEO of RISC Partners, a private equity boutique in Paris. His blog is also well-known, but I'd love to get some more informations directly from you Rodrigo in a comment to this post, as I find societe.com you are refering to so unfriendly ! ;o)

Welcome again ! ;o)

Introducing Pascal Lorne

Pascal is founder and CEO of Miyowa and also President of i-clubedit, the european club of i-mode content providers.

As for several members, I don't have a lot of informations about you, so please feel free to post a comment to your own introducing post if you like to add some more information on your profile. Beware we are not hiring people anyway ... ;o)

Introducing Roger Simard

Roger is CEO and co-founder of Conceptis Technologies, a Montreal-based Internet firm specializing in virtual communities in the health care field. Welcome Québec ! ;o)
He is also the author of his weblog called Communitics.

Introducing Daniel Gerges

Daniel is one of the co-founders of Wokup a spin-off which was acquired by Air2web (mobile solution provider) in 2004.

He is now in charge of European operations for them and he is also of course, a blogger ! (... as many will appreciate, an english blogger ! )

Introducing Julio Alonso

Julio Alonso is our first member coming from Spain, and as I said previously, bienvenido Espana ! ;o)
He is Managing Partner of Intélica Venture Management , based in Madrid a company he founded almost 2 years ago.

His blog also has an english version hopefully for non spanish speakers, that we'll be happy to visit ... ;o)

Julio is also participating in a couple of group blogs: Bitacoras.org and a soon to be launch Spanish language gadget blog ().

And you now have one more Julio: ceobloggers.com ! ;o)

Introducing Loïc Le Meur

How is it possible to introduce Loïc....What if I say that he is certainly a blogger, and also a CEO ? Does any one need some more information ? ;o) Oh yes, his blog...

Introducing Benoit Desavoye

Benoit has been founder of several companies(web-agency, e-commerce) and also, one year ago, the blogging plate-forme Haut Et Fort.

He is joining us as his concern is to seek which impact weblogs might have on companies. He should also publish a book at the end of this year on this issue, following the work he launched on his blog lesblogs.com

Benoit is the first member of the club who leads a company directly linked to the blogosphere...

Introducing Mihai Crasneanu

Mihai is blogger and CEO of Glowria.fr, the most important online DVD rental service of France.

Introducing Cyrille de Lasteyrie

Cyrille is blogger and cofounder of a marketing agency called Sidièse, existing for 5 years and based in Boulogne-Billancourt , closed to Paris.

Introducing Laurent Bervas

Laurent Bervas, french entrepreneur, is founder of Data Synthèse, a software development company based in Paris.

Introducing Jean-Christophe Latournerie

Jean-Christophe, a french entrepreneur, is founder of Memo Technique, a copywriting agency existing for six years and based in Boulogne-Billancourt, close to Paris.

New member

This category will be dedicated to introducing each new member.