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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.
iPhone: already 10 applications on the road map…

After developing an initial application for one of the leading French companies in social networking, tourism and entertainment on the Web, Pentalog followed up with an application for energy management and home automation before starting the development in regards to its own needs in the field of telecommunications. Pentalog has now turned towards real estate, recruitment and social networks. We also have opened discussions up with one of the most important publishers in the French press.

The momentum which started nearly a year ago has accelerated with several specific sales approches. Our latest newsletter has generated 3 leads which are presently being discussed. The NL prepared in Romania also surprised us, since it has generated a lead too, while we were just launching into the process of looking for new customers, in the style “we make iPhone applications, therefore we are cool…”

Pentalog seems to be in a position to become rapidly the leader in the Balkans in this area. The first application based on geo-location, is well known as it is one of the most downloaded Apps in France, found in the Appstore (Cityvox). Admittedly, it was a bit laborious in the development stage, but it’s now perfectly reliable and has been available for several months and is regularly used. I can say, as a user, it is absolutely wonderful. The next two that were developed did not give us any problems. Our friends from Wirecom Technologies asked us to transform the iPhone into a remote control device for the home which we were perfectly able to do and “on time”. Today it is a Skype-like application, merging an iPhone via WiFi with a Pentalog VoIP network that we are preparing to launch.

I won’t talk about the applications that have not yet entered into production, but let me say that we shouldn’t lack any work in this sector over the next two years. We are beginning to feel the interest in this market for Android, a system which is at least as powerful, portable and a lot less expensive. It’s simple, the Google platform will be in my opinion, present in this range of products along with 100% of the smartphone manufacturers in the next 18 months (except Apple of course) and in my opinion the app activities will continue to grow much stronger. The same thing could happen between Apple and Google which happened at the time of the first Windows OS in the 80’s. In the end, the one which is the most open wins… I think Jobs knew this.

From the production side, we should find the development of iPhone will continue to be present in the group, as it seems to have become a generic request. The Chisinau site also seems to be one step ahead of many others and could become the No. 1 Competence Center in this sector for the group. We will soon be making a decision concerning this subject.

I also wonder about the necessity or not, to develop a new generation of mobile platforms in the future Pentalog Labs, which has grown rapidly, thanks to an Executive Meeting with Aymeric Libeau (responsible for R & D, information systems and quality of the Group) held last weekend. I will try to get back to this subject of Pentalog Labs before the end of this week.

Posted on Mon., 15 Feb. 2010 12:35 by Frédéric LASNIER (200 day(s) old)
Tags: Romania and Moldova
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Written on Thu., 11 Mar. 2010 9:27 by Nicolas

That’s a great road map you have here.
Any plan to setup in HCMC in the pipe?

Written on Tue., 16 Mar. 2010 10:46 by Alexandra MONDANEL

Hi Nicolas,
yes, operations are to be launched very soon in HCMC as well! please, contact me or Tuan if you are interested in taking part in those operations.


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