Graduated from HEC, Daniel had a more than 20 years international career with Intel.
He has been occupying different management positions in France and abroad, in marketing and sales as well as in strategic planification. He has been managing, developing and sometimes restructuring several subsidiaries or profit centers. Back in France since 2004, he has been assisting several young companies in their development.

Jean-Philippe Gendre

Jean-Philippe is an investment director of Emertec Gestion which he joined in January 2004. His areas of investment focus include semiconductor, EDA, embedded software, components, communication and wireless infrastructure and devices.
Prior to this, he had ten years of experience in the microelectronics sector in sales and marketing ; he was a Sales Director at DuPont Photomasks Inc. where he managed for seven years the sales and business development for a global account, prior to this he was a Product Marketing Mgr at Motorola Semiconductor for three years.
Before this period in the semiconductor, he spent five years in consultancy and computer services.
Jean-Philippe GENDRE holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC) and a MBA from INSEAD.

Graduated from London Business School and New York University Business school HEC, Jean-Yves was first consultant for administrative data processing, then financial director of a small enterprise and afterwards financial director of a bank, he created, 17 years ago, his own consulting company dedicated to entrepreneurs merging and expending their capital worldwide. He has been investing in several young companies such as Nextamp, specialized in watermarking and for which he was Supervisory Board Chairman until its cession to Thompson with a 100% Internal Rate of Return.

Hervé Yahi

Hervé, who launched his career 20 years ago by galvanising the CJN Group, a system integrator and Independent Software Vendor, has displayed a remarkable ability to confront different challenges and come up with the answers.
As a graduate of Supélec, the Ecole Supérieur d'Electricité, one of France's prestigious Grandes Ecoles and one of the top in its field of electrical and computer engineering, and with a PhD in theoretical physics, he has acquired an impressive depth of skills in turning around, redeploying and merging a number of software services companies.

He forged his reputation in steering Bull Group's SI&S into a prominent market position but was also instrumental in restructuring five subsidiaries of Communication et Systèmes Group in a series of complex mergers after a brief but successful passage as European chief of Computron Software, a New Jersey ISV.

As CEO of Virtools, a middleware vendor for 3D life-like applications, he turned the company around from a fire-sale status before selling it to Dassault Systèmes. He ran Virtools and its subsidiaries for Dassault, where he was also CEO of 3D4ALL and part of Dassault's executive team, before stepping in at Mandriva where he will be responsible for overall operations, business development, marketing and sales.