EMBA

Pierre Breese is an European patent attorney, graduated from CEIPI Strasbourg. In 2011, he founded IP TRUST, an intellectual property consulting firm. 

He is specialized in ICT and optical engineering sciences areas. Since 2008, he teaches courses at Sciences Po Paris, Mines Institute and Telecom Ecole de Management. 

Publications: 

• Pierre Breese, Yann De Kermadec."La propriété intellectuelle au service de l'innovation Broché". NATHAN. (2011)

• PME : pensez à allier PI et normalisation: Guide pratique sur les liens entre la propriété intellectuelle et la normalisation (DGCIS)

Dr. Chabrak has worked as a consultant in Business & IT in France for French companies such as the group Total, in collaboration with Atos Origin.

She also held a position of Associate Professor at Institut Mines Telecom, Paris. She has delivered numerous in-company courses as well as courses and seminars in EMBA and EDBA programs in France, Morocco and Syria on Accounting, financial analysis and evaluation.

Research Area 

• Critical accounting theories
• Corporate governance & Corporate Social Responsibility
• Financialisation and shareholder value maximization

Selected Publications

• The French Connection, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16(6), 2005, pp. 641-644 (editorial)
• The Politics of Transcendence: Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Accounting Policy, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16(6), 2005, pp. 701 - 716.

Pierre-Antoine Chardel is a philosopher and a sociologist. 

He is also a professor and responsible for the research team ETOS at Télécom Ecole de Management, deputy director of the LASCO - Monde Contemporain (Institute Mines-Télécom /Université Paris Descartes); and member of the editorial boards of  Hermes and Cultures & Conflicts journals. 

Main themes of research :

• Sociology of the new media, cultural studies
• History of the ideas, general sociology
• Media Representations and informative ecology
• Theories of the text, ethics and philosophy of the new technologies
• Phenomenology, the hermeneutics, the post-structuralism

Last works :

• Écologies sociales. Le souci du commun (dir. avec Bernard Reber), Lyon, Parangon, 2014
• Politiques sécuritaires et surveillance numérique(dir.), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2014.

Dr. Sorin Cohn has extensive international management, business & technology expertise having been involved in most facets of “innovation and corporate development”.

He is also Owner & President of BD Cohnsulting, focusing on strategic planning, marketing and organization, business and market channel development. He consults and acts as interim C-Executive with companies in Canada and USA.

 Sorin lectures on Business Innovation Management as part of various executive MBA programs at business schools in France and Canada.

Before 2000, Sorin held senior positions with Nortel (BNR) launching new businesses and coordinating advanced technology development in US, Canada and Europe. He created the Behavioral Technology Laboratories leading to world's first touch-sensitive display-phone, multimedia social teleconferencing, and the earliest smartphone.

in 2013, Dr. Sorin Cohn was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canada. Sorin has several patents and over 100 industry publications and presentations. Concomitant with BNR, he has been an Adjunct Professor at University of Ottawa.

A Killam Scholar, he received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Physics.

Specialties :

• Strategic Business Development,
• Market Penetration and Effective Partnerships,
• Corporate Development & Strategic Planning,
• Marketing & Communications,
• Product & Technology Development Management

Olivier Ezratty has 30 years of experience in R&D, Marketing and Business Development in the high-tech industry.

Since 2005, he consults start-ups on their biz model and marketing strategies, consults industry companies in the digital media space on product and business strategies, and teaches the marketing of innovation in various Universities (Ecole Centrale Paris, Télécoms Paristech, HEC, Neoma, Epitech, etc). 

Specialties:

• Marketing strategy,
• Product Strategy,
• Ecosystem building,
• Intellectual Property,
• Software Business Models,
• Video/Photo/Sound consumer electronics,
• digital television.

  Author of the blog "Opinions Libres", http://www.oezratty.net, of the "Guide des startups " (startup guide), and "Le Rapport du CES de Las Vegas" every year since 2006.

Thomas Guedj is a consultant and a trainer in the field of Negotiation and Mediation.

Over the last 20 years, he has trained more than 10 000 managers and business students to become more effective negotiators. He is a former attorney admitted to practice in the New York and Paris Bars. He lived six years in the United States and one year in Japan before settling in Paris, France. 

A Harvard Law School graduate, he specialized in negotiation with Harvard luminary Roger FISHER and Bruce PATTON. He has developed his own method of teaching negotiation based on the Quadrant theory.

Since 2008, Hervé Kabla, Polytechnique graduate, is the CEO of  be angels, one of the first agencies dedicated to advising companies on digital and social media.

Be angels mission is to help companies to decline their marketing strategy and communication on digital and social media. 

Hervé Kabla is not only a digital media specialist, but also gives public and private lectures to illustrate how social media can be used for professional purposes, by all types of organizations. With Yann Gourvennec, he created a book collection ".... expliqué à mon boss", published by Kawa Editions, which already contains 4 books. 

Publications:

• H. Kabla, S. Lachkar. "Le social selling expliqué à mon boss". Editions Kawa, 2015
• H. Kabla, Y. Gourvennec. "La communication digitale expliquée à mon boss". Editions Kawa, 2013. 

Dr. Etienne Krieger is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a Ph.D. in management science from Paris Dauphine University.

He is an affiliate Professor at HEC Paris and Vice President of SeleXel, a biotech company, and of Navidis, an IT company. He is also cofounder of several companies, like Vega Vista, a Silicon Valley based IT firm, and Planext, an innovation consulting firm. 

Prior to starting his business activities, Dr. Krieger was the Director of the HEC Start-Up Institute and cofounder of the Challenge+ program at HEC Paris. In this capacity, Mr. Krieger has developed and taught various programs on entrepreneurship and finance and advised numerous advanced technology start-ups.

He is also co-founder and member of the board of the French Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has been consulted by the French government and several administrations about various mechanisms intended to favour innovation in small companies.

Publications:

• F. Iselin, K. Medjad, E. Krieger. "La troublante mesure du risque du capital-risque". La Revue du Financier. January-February 2013.
• E.Krieger, K. Medjad, V. Gerasymenko, R. Grandsart, F. Iselin. "You Said Successful? Actual and Perceived Performance of Venture Capital in France". International Journal of Business. Fall 2011.

Bernadette Martin is a multi-lingual professional with an international profile reflecting a 20+ year career in various aspects of career development and brand management.

She has held senior level positions in corporate, agency and academic environments in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

In 2002, she became an entrepreneur, transitioning from corporate branding to “personal” branding and career development. As Founder of Visibility Branding, she works with individual clients and groups and develops tailor made courses, curriculum and workshops on career development, storytelling and personal branding for academic institutions, alumni and professional associations and corporations.

Academically, Bernadette holds an MIM/MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and certification as a Reach Personal Brand Strategist, Online Identity Expert, and Social Media and 360Reach Assessment Analyst.

Publications:

• B.Martin.“Storytelling about Your Brand Online & Offline” 
• B.Martin (contributor).“Personal Branding for Dummies”.

 Winston has become a trusted advisor of major Internet, telecom and media companies, and of government institutions.

In 2014 he was appointed to the French National Assembly's Commission on Digital Rights, and was asked to contribute to the French Conseil d'Etat's 2014 report on fundamental rights in the digital age. Winston has completed projects for the European Commission, the French telecom regulatory authority (ARCEP) and data protection authority (CNIL) on forward-looking regulatory issues. After authoring a 2011 book on net neutrality with a member of France's telecommunications regulatory authority, Winston has become one of the country's leading experts on net neutrality. 

International data protection is taking up a big share of Winston's attention, including data governance plans, international investigations/eDiscovery, M&A, cloud deals, CNIL litigations and GDPR implementation. Internet of Things projects, including connected health, connected vehicles and smart home devices, are close behind.

Winston teaches comparative privacy law and telecommunications law at a leading French business and engineering school. He co-heads Hogan Lovells' global TMT industry sector group.

Professeur of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Public policy at Mines ParisTech, where he has created the specialisation "Innovation and entrepreneurship".

P. Mustar is specialized in academic spin-off firms, in financing entrepreneurship and in technology and innovation policy. He has pioneered research into academic entrepreneurship in France and has published books and papers in leading academic journals. Philippe has wide ranging experience working with leading research teams in Europe, starting new businesses and advising on government policy and on firm innovation strategy. Philippe is Member of the Editorial Board of Research Policy, of Technovation and of Industry & Higher Education. His on-going research interests include entrepreneurship policy and public intervention to boost the availabily of finance for technology ventures and for venture capitalists.

Following his university diploma of City Planner, Philippe was Research Assistant at the Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris between 1982 and 1984 (History of technical urban networks was his research topic). From 1984 to 1986, he was Public Officer at the French « Ministry of Research and Technology » (he was in charge of the Evaluation of Innovation Policy). He was recruited as Researcher at Mines-Telecom Institute of Paris in 1986, where he got his PhDs and then became Associate Professor, Second Class Professor and presently First Class Professor.

Specialties:

• Research on Innovation and entrepreneurship policy, Academic spin-off firms, Venture Capital, Innovation in large and small firms, Management of research and technology.
• Educational programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship
• Consulting in entrepreneurship, in management of innovation for new ventures and large companies and in innovation and entrepreneurship policy for governments and agencies.

Andrew Newton is a writer, researcher and business school teacher in responsible business.

He teaches business ethics and corporate social responsibility subjects to postgraduate business and finance students. His course on "The finance professional as economic steward" was nominated for the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneers Award, 2015.

Specialties :

• Corporate Social Responsibility,
• business ethics,
• philosophy of business,
• sustainability,
• green business

François-Xavier Rousselot is a graduate from HEI (1997) and from IE Business School (International MBA - 2008).

He has more than 20 years of work experience in the digital field: at the French Embassy in Beirut, at the Marketing department of Neuf Télécom, at the head of Cloud computing of F-Secure Corporation (North and Latin America), and working on applications of Machine Learning within different sectors.

As a Cloud an Big Data specialist , François-Xavier Rousselot  managed a team of eighteen Data Scientists at MyMedia Group. Today, François-Xavier Rousselot is an Affiliate Professor at IE Business School and helps MNCs in their ML projects (TF1, TripAdvisor, LeBonCoin among others) or startups and specialists of Analytics. 

Joel Saltsman is Director of the Paris MBA program of Touro College.  

After graduating with a J.D. from University of Toronto law school, Joel Saltsman obtained his Master of Laws in 1978 from the London School of Economics.  In 1990 he moved to Paris and completed an MBA at ESCP Europe.  He is a member of the Ontario bar and a qualified English solicitor.

Currently he works in the field of international commercial law as a senior legal counsel for Orange in Paris, specializing in submarine cable networks and internet technology.  In addition to his courses at Touro College France, he also teaches law and management in other business schools.

Between 1978 and 1990, he taught law at Toronto's York University, practiced law in Vancouver, and worked as a consultant to the federal government.  From 1992 to 2005, he held various positions in international telecommunications companies, serving as vice president of regulatory affairs for SITA-Equant from 1998 to 2001.