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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: Deputy CEO
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.
Monica has been Pentalog's Deputy CEO (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) since August 2011. She is in charge of operational management, including the management of production and production structures, financial and reporting management, administration and development of existing partnerships, supervision of the information systems, technical management and … the incubator.
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: Sales Director
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.
Good luck to the Essec students who chose Pentalog!
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This afternoon, I can not be with the ESSEC students who have chosen Pentalog to participate in a major inter-school strategy competition. I hope I have met their expectations but I’m not sure. And if I can not be with them today, it is really because I can not be. Sophie, who is a founding partner, will represent Pentalog while they defend their case.

I would like to tell them that I am sure they have made the right choice, because the Pentalog strategy has brought over recent years between 10 and 20 times more organic growth than the rest of the industry, sales profitability has increased 2 to 3 times more, and the equity has continued to grow by between 50 to 100%, and this is not all by chance. This type of results is usually irreconcilable. This triptych is very defensible.

I would like to add that the volume of customers is normal, but also the contracts obtained by Pentalog demonstrates our adherence to an increasingly strong Business Model and represent the true expectations of a quality offshore / nearshore service provider in France and in Europe.

The last point that they must defend is Pentalogs’ commercial action plan, which is resolutely innovative and low cost. We want more commercial productivity through the increased use of the use of the web and the creation of a consulting and outsourcing administration service cloud. This strategy is already operating at full speed. Yet I am convinced that it is still in its’ infancy stage in the minds of many major buyers of intellectual services but in the near future it will be recognized to contain enormous possibilities for its future growth potential.

Good luck.


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Posted on Wed., 31 Mar. 2010 11:14 by Frédéric LASNIER (679 day(s) old)
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Cloud: will it soon be a resaleable resource?
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March 23, I participated as Pentalogs’ CIO in a very interesting conference on Cloud computing, organized by IOC-Online. There were over a hundred CIOs in attendance at this quality event.

The association of various solutions (Riverbed, Microsoft, Salesforce…) and experience of people (PSA, law firm, BNP Paris Innovation) showed the broad scope of the Cloud. The last part of this conference was a roundtable which was very representative of the cloud context: public / private / dedicated could, S.P.IaaS.

The most representative of the PaaS model was the company “Lokad” that makes calculations for online provisions. Once they get initial data they start the necessary processing in Azure, loading the data, next launching the analysis, capturing the results, and finally stopping the process. At 15 cents an hour per instance, they take full advantage of the model “pay as you go”. To meet their delivery commitment (results given in 1hr to their client), for a classic model, they would require a heavy initial investment. To offer a provisional calculation, up to 100 processors can be mobilized, soon hundreds will be used to offer a faster delivery.

The CIO of the STIME (a subsidiary of the “Mousquetaires” Group) referred to their solution as a “in-house” virtualization. Since they had taken the decision not to depend on one provider, they had to establish their system on a more robust reliable solution. They chose to customize the Sun VirtualBox solution integrating it with other open source elements. Thus, they can respond quickly to their requirements with a private / public cloud, for the implementation or storage and /or a combination of the two. This is certainly an evolution in the cloud. When you see the Riverbed product to be released next year with the concept of a “SAN as a LAN”, it is conceivable that we could have equipment on one side and storage on the other side.

I wonder also if a stock market will be put into place as a means to purchase processing power on one side, storage on the other and bandwidth from the operators. It’s a bit like today with our energy suppliers (gas and electricity). We would arrive at a total virtualization. The idea is very interesting, but is this total abstraction going in the right direction?

In fact, during this conference, a lawyer with a specialized law firm intervened to indicate a few of the precautions that must be taken in regards to outsourcing (SLAs, reversibility…). What guarantees can we have with brokers? Especially, when you impose (or you have imposed) rules concerning respect for the environment. The company Markess also intervened to present the results of their study on Cloud solutions. For the CIOs surveyed, data confidentiality, ensuring continuity and quality service are the three main challenges of cloud computing. It’s not going to be easy for the brokers neither.

The brokering of a cloud is a good idea from the end-customers’ point of view who will always get the best price. To be able to offer this type of service, they will need:

  • Offers that must evolve in order to have a “resale” price (not yet seen to date)
  • Laws, to “impose” set standards. Europe certainly has a card to play in regards to this subject, but it might take a while.
  • Cloud concepts that are better controlled by those who understand the risks, the advantages and the cost.


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