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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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On account of liquididy stringency we are all facing in Europe, companies encounter greater difficulties in finding financing means for their big infrastructure and R&D projects. As the greatest IT services consumers under normal circumstances, banks are the first to lower their ambitions related to new projects in order to save their famous equity. In this high risk aversion context, the loans granted to companies will be curtailed as well.

Venture capital was already showing signs of weakening during the first semester, prior to this summer’s crisis deepening. Undoubtedly, there were early warning signs of a trend that is not likely to change before the end of 2012.

Being a strategy enthusiast and investor via Pentalabbs (company incubator), I asked investment funds a few questions concerning their own perspective during this difficult period. They have all reinforced my understanding from the media. They will primarily invest in e-commerce, and, more cautiously, in B2C web services. The majority of them keep away from B2B and the idea of spending money on financing hefty software R&D operations seems terrifying. Under the circumstances, software publishers, except for the firmly Cloud based-ones, are likely to encounter financing difficulties.

The conversations I had with two major investment funds and a leading investment banker in Paris, whom I met at a fund-raising event at Audencia, sustain the strategy our IT outsourcing company has pursued for several years. First, we focused entirely on software publishing, which has been technology funds’ darling for a long time; then, we happily embarked on the M2M adventure, and, more recently, we provided web services (social networks in particular) and e-commerce solutions. The latter two sectors account for 70% of our profit growth in 2011. M2M has practically doubled its preponderance this year (!), at a time when the banking sector has registered a drop of 35% and when the telecommunication field has remained stable.
We are all aware of the fact that, with its forecast organic growth of about 22% in 2011, Pentalog registers its worst performance in the last 5 years, but I can say that this performance could have been even lower should we not have strengthened our position in these areas and their specialized technology. In 2011, we have earned 4 major e-commerce and social network budgets, amounting to an annualized total of €2.5M. Actually, there are many reasons to be satisfied with the pursued strategy if we add the M2M profits (€1M, but from existing clients).

Naturally, PHP technology requests have boomed in 2011. The demand for these expertise services exceeds by far Microsoft.net and matches Java demand for the first time in history! But we have also made progress in expertise knowledge, with know-how in the video field (in Drupal), commercial animation (in Magento), SEO constraints, and social networks (Drupal and mobile). In these business sectors, we are acknowledged as consultants and experienced contractors. Moreover, we are currently considering the proposal of two professional cloud, e-commerce and social networks offers based on Magento and Drupal for the software layers and on specialized consultants for the service layer.

We are counting on the converging cloud computing, mobility, e-commerce and social network expertise directions to ensure a reliable growth engine for Pentalog in 2012.


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