Supervisory Board

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Chairman of the Board

Former Number 2 and Special Advisor to the President of France Telecom Group, Jean-Jacques Damlamian has spent the greatest part of his career at France Telecom, where he was notably Executive Director of the Group’s Technology and Innovation division.

Krishna Visvanathan, Board Member

Krishna has been a Venture Capital investor for over 10 years. He was previously a Partner in 3i's Venture Capital team and was responsible for several successful investments including Ezurio Ltd, Ubinetics Ltd, Blue Lithium Inc, E2V plc, Fastnet Systems Ltd and BTN Ltd.
He started his career at Ernst & Young before founding Optika Fibre Technologies, a polymer fibre and display technology start-up based in SE Asia.
He currently sits on the boards of Icera Inc, Netronome Systems Inc, Taptu Ltd, The Cloud Networks Ltd, Light Blue Optics Ltd and Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd.
He has a degree in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Marc Julien, Board Member

Prior to joining the FSI as Investment Director in 2009, Marc Julien was SVP, Acquisitions and Strategy at Schneider Electric, responsible for managing the group’s strategic projects and acquisitions. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Manager at Estin & Co and from 1998 to 2002 Manager at L.E.K. Consulting. Between 1995 and 1997, he was a Senior Auditor at PSA Peugeot-Citroën, after having begun his career as Senior Consultant at Eurogroup in 1991.
Marc Julien has a degree in engineering from the Mines de Nancy (France) and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Nicolas Celier, Board Member

Nicolas Celier joined Alven Capital as Partner in 2005. Prior to Alven Capital, he served as Investment Director for Crédit Lyonnais Private Equity, and was a member of Paribas's Corporate Finance department, based successively in Paris and Hong Kong.

Philippe Germond, Board Member

CEO of French PMU, Philippe Germond was formerly Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Atos Origin, and previously President and COO of Alcatel, and member of the Executive Committee. Prior to that, he was Chairman and CEO of Cegetel, SFR, Vivendi Universal Net and Vivendi Telecom International Group. He also held various positions within Hewlett Packard, becoming notably Managing Director of HP Europe South and Member of the Executive Committee HP Europe.

Gérard Hermet, Board Member

Member of the Management Board of the GfK Group since 1999, Gérard Hermet is in charge of GfK Group's Retail and Technology business division. He was formerly President of the French Association of Marketing, General Manager of GfK Sofema France, and General Manager of GfK France and GfK Marketing Services France.