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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.
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It’s been a while since I have written a post on the blog since I became one of the official writers. This is because I need a certain peace to be able to write and this has not been the case lately. Today, it is a quiet Saturday, I am sitting in my living room and watching TV, and I have found the inspiration to write to you and share a few thoughts about the city that I would like to call “the mistress of my life”: Hanoi.

I would like to say that inspiration is not born of chance; today, Oct 10 is a special day for the city. We will celebrate not only 999 years of its existence but also the official 55th anniversary of its liberation from colonial occupation.

I cannot say that I am originally from Hanoi, because my father was from another town, 80km north of Hanoi. But I was born and raised in this city, I consider myself 99% Hanoian and proud of all its qualities and defects. My whole childhood is engraved with a quiet, peaceful Hanoi crossed by the Red River, with its narrow streets, houses with a strong colonial influence, lakes and especially the bicycles. I would do anything to return to the days when my father rode my mother and me on his bike, there were no traffic jams, no pollution, and no honking.

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Hanoi in the years 1980 to 1990

Hanoi is like an Asian girl: shy, modest but with an irresistible beauty that you never forget. It can never really reveal all its secrets, and charms. She will win your heart the first time you visit her, you will see her and she will become the love of your life. But like all daughters of the modern world, she has entered a period of puberty, and rebellion. The city is changing every day, growing incredibly fast, and is enveloping the neighboring towns to become one of the largest cities in the world, in size. Traffic problems, congestion and poor urbanization are increasing. Everything is moving faster, and not for the better.

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Hanoi during the historical floods of 2008

Yet my love for Hanoi has never changed. This city will further develop economically, socially and culturally, to deserve its place in history for a city celebrating its 1000th anniversary. But nothing will stop me from living here, working here and I love the idea that my children will grow up here. I have confidence in Hanoi, that it will still be more beautiful, charming and ever more modern and I am proud and happy to share this love for this city with you through this post.

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Sword Lake in the center of Hanoi today 10/10/2009

This post has nothing to do with our offshore business and I do not know if Fred will allow me to publish it, but I try my luck anyway. Who would have ever thought that globalization would allow Hanoi, 55 years after the occupation, to appear on the Pentalog map. Only in Pentalog can the Vietnamese work side by side, with the Romanians, Moldovan and of course, the French. Let us put behind us the difficulties in the starting-up of our first draft in the branch; Hanoi is accelerating its development pace. We sent a team to Iasi for a second project, a few weeks ago. Now I have successfully built a great team of 4 people, for the first phase of an internal development project. The pilot project for a client will also start shortly, not to mention the opportunities that have a strong possibility to materialize. In short, we are getting closer to our target, and perhaps with a little luck, we will move ahead sooner than expected, since we have no more enough space in our current premises.

Hanoi, I love you! Now I will leave you to join Sophie, Mona and Seb and all the other Hanoians who are in the streets celebrating this anniversary.

Posted on Sat., 10 Oct. 2009 10:58 by Marc CHARBIT (951 day(s) old)
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Written on Fri., 16 Oct. 2009 20:14 by Kim-Anh

I did read this entry once in French, and now I read it again in English (it makes me understand more clearly) when I’ve come home from driving around Hoan Kiem lake, eating some tradictional street-foods and breathing the absolutely pure air of the autumn in Hanoi… What a peaceful night! I can be sure that anyone of us, who was born and growed up in Hanoi, also has the special feelings for it. It’s not really the love, it’s more than that… I can’t find a word, an exact word to express my feelings for Hanoi, but I know, you and the others, who might not be born or growed up in Hanoi, but stay here, in Vietnam’s heart, can feel the same to me…
G9, I’m going to sleep in the night of Hanoi’s Autumn…


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