Francois VELTZ

Nice , 06000France
Web: http://www.gmmgle.com
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Summary

From RD and intellectual property to markets and sales. A passion for computers. Broad technical culture and market expertise: skills in engineering, marketing and intellectual property law. Homepage : http://www.gmmgle.com

Education & Affiliations

About 10 years of academic background : five years in science and five years in business and law
M.A and P.H.D. levels ; please see the details below.
1994 - 2009
 
Master's degree in Patent Law
CEIPI
2007 - 2008
 
Master's degree in Engineering (Scientific computing)
ENSEEIHT
1992 - 1997
 
MBA - Master's degree in Business Administration (Marketing)
IAE Pantheon Sorbonne
1998 - 1999
 
L3 Licence 3 General Law
Law faculty Nice France
2008 - 2009
 
L2 Licence 2 General Law
Law faculty Nice France
2007 - 2008
 
Others
EQE preparation, Master in banking finance, Master in Competition Law
2009 - 2010
 
Computer & Network Security
ENST
 
Economic Intelligence
IHEDN
 

Professional Experience

Intellectual Property Law Attorney
IBM, Nice, France
2006 - Present
 
- Patent prosecution: evaluation of disclosures in Patent Review Boards, patent drafting, responses to EPO official actions - IP communication: brainstorming sessions with inventors, patent lunches, seminars, communication activities - Licensing: preparation of proof packages, support for litigation - Open source: code scans and source code pedigree reviews, Open Source Software reviews - Contracts: license reviews and negotiation - Trademarks: trademark clearances, domain names - Others: IP Divestitures, review of IP agreements with third parties, studies of Adversely Held Patents - Confidential activities

Marketing manager
LTU TECHNOLOGIES, Paris, France
2003 - 2006
 
Image and video mining : search, filter and classification. Technology provider to law enforcement (child abuse investigations, stolen art), government (intelligence agencies), intellectual property (brand protection, counterfeit goods) and media companies (visual search). LTU Technologies is involved in the European QUAERO project (multimedia search engine) - Business development: initiated partnerships in forensics; porn filtering for telcos and ISPs ; search engines value propositions - Lobbying : advocacy for military affairs and child abuse issues ; partners (resellers and integrators) and press relations - Intellectual Property: trademarks, patents and domain names management. Licensing and source code issues - Product planning: roadmaps, pricing, features, business models. Initiation of the first B2C product (parental control solutions) - Technology watch : competitive studies, benchmarks and market researches - Sales support : product documentation, case studies, sales collateral ; pre-sales activities (first point of contact) - Operational marketing: websites management; web traffic analysis; emailings; newsletter - External communication and events: partner events and trade shows; MILIPOL Paris 2005 exhibition organization.

Channel marketing manager
SILICON GRAPHICS, Paris, France
2000 - 2003
 
- Sales and channel support (customer presentations, benchmarks) - Product presentations in seminars (up to 100 attendees) - Competitive studies and technology watch, market research (VOD, ASP, HD, HPC, HPV, etc) for sales representatives - Operational marketing: initiated and realized an integrated system of targeted emailings. Telemarketing campaigns - External communications : tradeshows and partners events organization; trainee management (3) - Webmaster of the French website: contents, traffic analysis, logs reporting, meta optimization and referencing.

Marketing assistant
TIRU, Paris, France
1998 - 1998
 
Services. Market research. 6 months.

Environmental manager assistant
3M France, Paris, France
1997 - 1997
 
Waste management. 6 months.

Research assistant
CEMAGREF, Paris, France
1996 - 1996
 
Geostatistics. 2 months.

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