Index / 01 ex-VP AI Brevo · Chief Product/Tech/AI Officer · Founder ×3 · Open to advisory & C-Level roles

I make AI real
in products,
and in orgs.

Twenty years of shipping. Three companies founded. Fifty agents in production at Brevo. I come in, set the bets, reshape the operating model, and stay until AI delivers measurable ROI. Advisory, fractional, or full-time C-Level — for the right project.

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BasedLyon · FR
Most recentVP AI · Brevo
LanguagesFR · EN
AvailableAdvisory & FT
Product strategy Agentic AI in production Organizational redesign AI Labs from zero Fractional CPO Full-time C-Level Board advisory Team architecture 15 years shipping Product strategy Agentic AI in production Organizational redesign AI Labs from zero Fractional CPO Full-time C-Level Board advisory Team architecture 15 years shipping
02 / APPROACH

Most AI programs fail because they skip one of three layers.

01
Strategy

Decide where AI actually moves the P&L.

Audit the stack, the org, and the roadmap. Separate AI-as-feature from AI-as-leverage. Ruthless prioritization of the 2–3 bets that change the curve — and the 20 that won't.

  • → AI readiness audit
  • → Portfolio & bets mapping
  • → Build / buy / integrate calls
02
Vision

Make the product look different — on purpose.

AI is not a sidebar. Redesign the product so agents do the work and humans make the decisions. Ship a vision that sales can sell, engineering can build, and customers can feel in week one.

  • → Agentic product design
  • → Narrative & north-star
  • → Experience & UX for agents
03
Execution

Rewire the org so AI ships weekly, not quarterly.

Stand up an AI Lab. Reshape the PM / Eng / Data triangle. Pick the guardrails, the evals, the deploy cadence. Build the muscle, not the slide deck.

  • → AI Lab setup & hiring
  • → Operating model redesign
  • → Agent platform & evals
03 / WORK

Problems I get pulled in to solve.

— For the CEO

"We have 40 AI ideas and no conviction on which three matter."

I come in for 2–4 weeks, rip through the portfolio with your leads, and hand back a board-ready bet list with P&L math, owners, and a kill-list.

— For the founder

"Our product shipped in 2019. What does AI-native even look like for us?"

A compressed design sprint to reshape the product around agents — narrative, key flows, data contracts, the feature that makes the old one obsolete.

— For the CPO / CTO

"PMs want to ship AI. Nothing ships. Legal, data and infra are blocking everything."

Operating-model work. Redraw the PM/Eng/Data/Legal swim lanes, set evals and guardrails, rebuild the release process so week-one agents are normal, not heroic.

— For the board

"We need someone who has done this — at real scale — in the boardroom."

Board observer or advisory seat. 15 years of operator scars, three startups co-founded, 50+ agents in production, 200M ARR scaled. I read the metrics before the meeting.

— For the scaleup

"We want an AI Lab but every blueprint online is a LinkedIn carousel."

I built one at Brevo from zero. I'll help you scope it, staff it, wire it into the org, and ship the first three agents in 90 days.

— For the investor

"Is this team's AI story real or a slide?"

Diligence on portfolio companies' AI claims — product, org, data, retention. What's durable, what's demo-ware, what to push them on next board.

04 / CASE

Brevo — an AI Lab from zero, 50+ agents in production.

Four years. Two mandates. One organization that now ships AI as its default mode.

Joined as VP Product in 2022. Scaled the organization from 8 to 25 PMs, rewrote the operating model, and drove the platform from €70M to €200M ARR through SMB marketing automation.

In late 2024, stepped into the VP of AI mandate. Stood up the AI Lab from scratch, set the Agentic AI strategy across every product line, and shipped AI-native features to millions of users.

Closed the chapter in early 2026. The org I left behind: 50+ AI agents in production, a repeatable process from idea to deployed agent in under 30 days, and a team that doesn't need to be convinced AI is the work — it is the work. Now taking the playbook to the next companies that want to do it.

€70→200M
ARR scaled, 2022–2024
8 → 25
PMs grown & structured
50+
AI agents in production
≤ 30d
Idea → deployed agent
05 / JOURNEY

Fifteen years. Three founded companies. One throughline: shipping.

2026 — Now
Chief Product/Tech/AI Officer · Independent
Hands-on operator. Helping CEOs and founders make AI real — strategy, vision, execution — in products and in organizations. Advisory, fractional, or full-time for the right project.
Current
2024 — 2026
VP of AI · Brevo
Built the AI Lab from zero. Led Agentic AI strategy across all products, 50+ agents deployed, AI-native features shipped to millions. Closed early 2026.
Closed chapter
2022 — 2025
VP Product · Brevo
Scaled product org 8 → 25 PMs. €70M → €200M ARR. SMB marketing automation at scale.
Operator
2019 — 2021
Founder & CEO · RYSE.vc
Founded investment management platform for startups. 0→1 product, seed raised, pivoted strategy.
Founder
2016 — 2018
Co-founder · Usual Makers
Co-founded a video game studio. Launched StepOnGreg.
Founder
2015 — 2019
CPO · Wizaplace
Led product for marketplace SaaS platform. Built PM practice from scratch, scaled to enterprise.
Operator
2011 — 2015
Co-founder & CTO · Batch.com
Mobile engagement platform. Built SDK + notification infra serving millions.
Founder
2009 — 2015
Co-founder & CTO · AppGratis
Mobile app discovery platform. 20M+ users, led technical strategy, navigated Apple ecosystem.
Founder
2000 — 2009
Technical roles · Various
Software engineer and technical lead. Foundations in architecture and team collaboration.
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06 / TALKS

On stage & on record.

07 / PROJECTS

Side projects — because operators still ship.

08 / SIGNAL

Patents, boards & community.

Patents
Optimisation temporelle d'envoi de notifications
FR1350898 · 2015 · INPI ↗
Community
Founding Member
TPC Leaders
2026 — present
Advisory Board
French Tech One · Lyon St-Étienne
2021 — 2023
Member
FrenchCPO
2021 — present
Investor
Team for the Planet
2020 — present
09 / CONTACT