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Frédéric Lasnier
Title: President&Chief Executive Officer
Bio: After a quick passage in a national marketing service company, Frederic Lasnier founded Pentalog with four colleagues, academics like himself. During a period of economic stagnation (in 1993).
In 1995, he decided to open permanently the capital of Pentalog to the participation of his employees. This participation now has reached 56%. It was a political vision that he shared with the founding members. Starting from 1997, Pentalog exported their first services outside of France. The percentage of foreign activities subsequently reached 60% in 2006.
In 1999, as part of a large software project (10 000 man-days in J2EE), he made his first trip to Romania and laid the foundation for the Pentalog policy of European "low cost". In 2005, he initiated the creation of BPO services (Business Process Outsourcing) and offered a New Business Model to Pentalog High Tech. In 2006, with the help of Ausy, one of the 5 most important players in the French market of outsourced R&D services, he created Pentalog Technology, a joint venture between Ausy and Pentalog, co-owned equally by the two partners. The Joint Venture aims to provide low cost but high quality R & D to global players. Pentalog took operational control of this alliance.
In 2008, Pentalog Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the group was created.
In 2009, Frederic created Pentalog Vietnam.
In all these areas, the management is provided from Orleans and it is here where 70% of the consolidated value is held.
Frederic is the father of the adaptation of the "design to cost" for intellectual services in France.
Aymeric Libeau
Title: CIO - Vice President Infrastructure & R&D
Bio: The management of infrastructure and R&D Aymeric is supervising includes all the technical aspects (for the company as well as for our customers), whether they are related to corporate needs, resources to complete a project, R&D activities or quality control.
Aymeric is the one who defines the strategy of development of our infrastructure and information system.
This former peacekeeper has led several international operations, in particular in Eastern Europe. He remains operational for some of our customers, whether as an expert in architecture, a project director or consultant in the choice of technologies.


Monica Jiman
Title: COO - Vice President Business Development
Bio: Monica graduated in Marketing and Production from the University of Orleans, and joined Pentalog as a trainee.
She then became the Manager of the branch office in Bucharest, today employing 50 people in the field of outsourced software development on the offshore as well as local market in Romania.
In May 2009 she became Chief Operational Officer. Monica is now in charge of operations in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, France and Germany, involving over 300 employees. She manages sales and business lines, the creation of new branch offices, recruitment, human resources and the responsibility of contractual operations.

Alexandra Mondanel
Title: International Operations Officer
Bio: After a 4-month internship within the Pentalog Orleans Team, Alexandra was recruited to develop the company's international activities. She holds a postgraduate degree in International Business and foreign languages and she is European to the core: her mother is German and her father is French; she attended a British University, and used to work for the German subsidiary of a French company before joining Pentalog in 2005. Her ability to speak four languages will be determining to find partners all accross Europe.

Sophie Lelarge
Title: WW Sales and BL Director
Bio: Sophie is the group's Sales Director and manages the 3 Business Lines: Information Systems, Embedded Systems and BPO.
She ensures the dialogue with consultants and project managers, as well as the monitoring of our commitments, in coordination with the project managers.




Pierre Peutin
Title: Head of Business Line for Information Systems
Bio: Pierre entered Pentalog as a developer, in 1999. He has worked on web and client/servers projects, on missions of medium and long duration in both France and Belgium. After several years as a developer, Pierre oriented himself towards Business Intelligence by participating in various reporting projects for customers like PSA Peugeot Citroën, Loxam or the ACTICALL group. Later, Pierre became Project Leader for specific application developments, managing teams of 1 to 7 people based in France and offshore for Pentalog. Pierre then naturally served as an offshore Project Director before taking on the responsibility of the Business Line for Information Systems.
Pierre is presently responsible for writing business proposals, monitoring existing customers, commitment control vis-à-vis our customers on projects, compliance with Pentalog quality system procedures and control and optimization of expenses for the Business Line.
Mickaël Hiver
Title: Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO
Bio: Mickaël entered Pentalog as a Network Administrator in February 1997 with the aim to gain global understanding of information technology in order to assist and guide users in meeting their real needs. For 8 years he was an in-house producer for Pentalog clients. With his acquired experience, Mickaël progressively left production to become first a Project Manager, then Project Director and finally the Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO.
Mickaël is a hands-on and open person, with an acute sense of organization and priorities. Through his assistance and counseling he gives his clients and prospective clients the opportunity to focus calmly on their actual core business.
Eric Gouin
Title: Administrator
Bio: Eric graduated from a renown school of Physics and Chemistry in Paris. While he was a student he used to develop websites related to his student activities.
After two research internships within a French company producing mobile phone components in the Sophia-Antipolis Technopole, he joined the IT world in which he held several key positions.
He now is a finance and management control consultant.


Aleth Delcenserie
Title: Quality Manager
Bio: Associate-founder of Pentalog and board member, Aleth Delcenserie first evolved in the graphics department of the company. Gifted with a strong sense of organization and a taste for detail, she conducted with rigorous methodology publishing projects and electronic media for over ten years, and launched the Pentalog BPO-DTP sector at the end of 2005.
From September 2007, Aleth has been responsible for the definition and for the implementation of the Pentalog Quality Policy, leading to the ISO 9001:2008 certification of the group, on December 24, 2008.
As the Director of Quality Control, Aleth is now based in Moldova since 1 January 2009, where she now shares her time between coaching project managers in implementing effectiveness control and the progress of Pentalog Quality.
Tuan Nguyenquoc
Title: Office Manager Hanoi
Bio: Tuan holds a Master's Degree in Information Systems and New Technologies from the Paris-Dauphine University, and gained some professional experience in France before returning to Vietnam to start his offshore adventure. He became a team leader in a Datawarehouse deployment project in Africa for a telecom provider, and witnessed violent riots in Kinshasa during a couple of days.
Following this project, Tuan turned to a Marcom position as the offshore business development manager of a big Vietnamese IT services company.
While reading the Pentalog blog Tuan became acquainted with Frederic and they met during Frederic's first visit in Vietnam. He was immediately convinced by Pentalog's business model and now manages the development of the first Pentalog office in Vietnam.

Press review week 35/2010

-IT Service Outsourcing Deal Volume On The Rise (27 August 2010, ChannelInsider)
- CIOs – it’s time to bill the business for using IT (25 August 2010, Silicon)
- Mobile industry calls for new pricing model (24 August 2010, ITPRO)
- Cloud to open more hacking

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Pentalog will soon travel to Poland

Germany is the second IT outsourcing market in Europe and its demand will continually increase in the years to come, considering the evolution of its demography (see Frédéric’s article on this subject). Pentalog is about to assert its position on

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Posted on Mon., 30 Aug. 2010 17:03 by Alexandra MONDANEL (4 day(s) old)
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Press review week 34/2010

- IT Outsourcing: 100 Questions for a Successful Engagement (13 August 2010, CIO)
- Gartner: customers still don’t get cloud computing (13 August 2010, ZD Net)
- India finally emerging as an indigenous consumer tech manufacturer? (18 August 2010, ZD Net)
- IT Services Deals on

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Fields and the perfect Franco-Vietnamese marriage

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Ngo Bao Chau, an authentic Vietnamese name, was pronounced at Hyderabad in India last Wednesday (August 19th) as one of the four winners of the Fields medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics (we could say that this is the

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Posted on Mon., 23 Aug. 2010 8:14 by Tuan NGUYENQUOC (11 day(s) old)
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38% organic growth in Q3, 35th consecutive quarterly increase for the Orléans-based technological Group

This statement will be published on the corporate site in the following days.

Thanks to several important new contracts and the development of previous activities of Q2 and Q1, Pentalog will reach an organic growth superior or equal to 38% in

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Posted on Fri., 20 Aug. 2010 18:21 by Frédéric LASNIER (14 day(s) old)
Tags: Nearshore
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Press review week 33/2010

- Jamaica Ahead in Outsourcing (13 August 2010, Caribbean Press Releases)
- The End of Outsourcing As We Know It? (13 August 2010, Newsfactor)
- Outsourcing Ready to Vanish in the Cloud? (12 August 2010, Fastcompany)
- Business outsourcing reshaping lifestyles in the Philippines (12 August 2010,

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Will we still be talking about IT offshoring in 2016? 36 hours of reflexion on the future in Chantilly, at Château de Montvillargenne, together with Virginie and Eric.

I don’t have an answer to this question. On the other hand, I know that the number of engineers available or in training in the so-called developed countries won’t be enough to meet their resource needs. Offshore outsourcing could become

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Posted on Mon., 16 Aug. 2010 12:06 by Frédéric LASNIER (18 day(s) old)
Tags: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria
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Pentalog Labbs: “Social networking is a key element of the cloud computing era”

Only a few days ago I was talking to you about the M2M solution that Pentalog intends to put on the market soon and that will join Pentalog’s “cloud” of solutions in order to meet the needs of tomorrow’s economic

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Press review week 32/2010

- 7 IT career rules worth breaking (2 August 2010, Computerworld)
- 6 Cool Innovations for the Data Center (2 August 2010, CIO)
- Businesses told to prepare for chaotic 10 years (4 August 2010, IT Pro)
- Don’t Mess with Texas: 7 Lessons From State

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Pentalog Labbs and M2M

M2M is the acronym for Machine to Machine, the concept that brings together equipment within an intelligent network. Pentalog Group made its first steps in this universe as early as 2005 by developing, for its client accounts, software solutions for

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Posted on Fri., 6 Aug. 2010 11:01 by Frédéric LASNIER (28 day(s) old)
Tags: Cloud
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PENTASTOCK – Frédéric’s official speech

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We continue our Pentastock 2010 presentation with Frederic’s official speech held in Romanian, because, as he uses to say, he feels Romanian inside.

Don’t forget that the pictures taken at this event are available on our Picasa account.

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Posted on Wed., 4 Aug. 2010 16:16 by Alina RAFOI (30 day(s) old)
Tags: For friends, Romania and Moldova
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Pentalog Group opens a subsidiary in Israel

Here is a press release published in the Israeli press a few days ago on the opening of Pentalog’s Israeli subsidiary.

“The Pentalog Group, a software development outsourcing group which operates software development centers in Eastern Europe and Vietnam opens a

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Posted on Tue., 3 Aug. 2010 18:28 by Lina JACKONT (31 day(s) old)
Tags: European vs. worldwide offshoring
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Press review week 31/2010

- SaaS momentum skyrocketing, IDC says (July 26, 2010, Computerworld)
- IT Outsourcing: What Can Safely Go Offshore (July 26, 2010, CIO)
- Black Hat: Most browsers can be made to give up personal data (July 27, 2010, Computerworld)
- How can wireless and wired security

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A combination of three achievements: Fast 500, 2nd place at the national business strategy awards, 90th place in the 2010 TOP 100

Pentalog, or I as an entrepreneur, I don’t know for sure, has just been ranked 90th company by the French Magazine “l’Entreprise”/Ernst&Young in the 2010 top 100 most profitable companies in France that achieved a sales figure of more than

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Posted on Mon., 2 Aug. 2010 14:18 by Frédéric LASNIER (32 day(s) old)
Tags: Design to cost - Productivity
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I am joining the strategic committee of Bar Ilan University in France

I have decided, following a request from friends who are already members, to join the strategic committee of the Bar Ilan University of Tel-Aviv, in France. For me, as French citizen, without any known Jewish origin, firmly believing that globalization

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Posted on Fri., 30 Jul. 2010 10:39 by Frédéric LASNIER (35 day(s) old)
Tags: For friends
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Press review week 30/2010

- Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not (19 July 2010, Computerworld)
- Japan no high-tech wonderland after all (19 July 2010, IT World)
- IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion (20 July 2010, Computerwolrd)
- Embedded intelligence and energy conservation (21 July 2010, Ciol)
- IT

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Pentalog Labs: call for applications

A few words on the LABS, the innovation structure of the Pentalog Group, which is currently being set up… The Labs is designed to generate innovation to the benefit of long-term value. Its activities are centered around a group of

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Posted on Mon., 26 Jul. 2010 13:29 by Alexandra MONDANEL (39 day(s) old)
Tags: Design to cost - Productivity
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Change of tone on the blog: should I give in to the deceivingly seductive voices of political correctness?

Even within Pentalog there are little voices who kindly suggest every now and then that some of the opinions that I develop here make me get too personally involved in areas that are too remotely connected with the object of

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Posted on Mon., 26 Jul. 2010 9:29 by Frédéric LASNIER (39 day(s) old)
Tags: Nearshore
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Press review week 29/2010

- Gartner criticises cloud market miscommunication (13 July 2010, CRN)
- Google ‘to launch Facebook competitor ‘Google Me’ (14 July 2010, Yahoo News)
- IT managers play more active role in business decisions (19 July 2010, Business and Leadership)
- IT pain relief for midmarket

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01 Informatique selects and puts together Jacques Attali and Pentablog posts

So the leader of the French IT professional press reads Pentablog. This piece of news in itself makes me happy, as I have always been a regular 01 reader.
Last week’s “blogs” heading touched again on an article that I wrote

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Posted on Mon., 19 Jul. 2010 14:36 by Frédéric LASNIER (46 day(s) old)
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AVERAGE PRICE REPORT (DAILY RATES)
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