Leadership - Founders
Oliver Coste - Co-Founder, President and Director
Oliver is an entrepreneur and a corporate executive in the tech industry. He currently provides consulting services for companies active in Artificial Intelligence.
After working at the European Commission, then at the office of the French Prime Minister, where he worked on the transformation of Airbus into an integrated company, he joined Alcatel-Lucent where he led several activities and created a mobile television business. He co-founded and managed a video chat startup for e-commerce, which was adopted by Microsoft, IBM, SoftBank.
He has lived in New York since 2014. He published "La double surprise des télécoms" in Commentaire in Spring 2012, "Europe, Tech and War" in 2023 (Strasser Prize by France's Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques), "Tech : quand l'Europe s'éveillera..." in Commentaire in December 2023, and "Cost of Failure and Competitiveness in Disruptive Innovation" at Bocconi in September 2024.
Yann Coantalem - Co-Founder and Director
Yann Coatanlem is an economist and entrepreneur.
A co-founder of GlassView, the inventors of Neuro-Powered MediaTM, he was previously head of several research departments at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of DataCore Innovations LLC, a Fin Tech start-up specialized in “antifragile” investment strategies.
Member of the board of the Paris School of Economics, he is the co-author of "Capitalism against Inequalities" (PUF, 2022), that received the “Prix Turgot” in 2023 and the “Prix Louis Marin” of the French Academy for Social Sciences (“l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques”). In 2018, he received from the same Academy the Special Prize of the Political Economy, Statistics and Finance section for his book "The government of citizens" (PUF, 2017), as well as for the work he has accomplished at the Club Praxis, the think tank of which he is president, and that promotes the use of Big Data in policy making, in particular in revamping the tax and welfare system.
Yann Coatanlem was part of a Commission of economists appointed in 2016 by the “Académie des sciences morales et politiques”, along with Olivier Blanchard and Thomas Philippon, to make recommendations on the teaching of Economics in High School. He is also a French Trade Advisor and head of an economic mission on France attractiveness in collaboration with Business France and the French Embassies in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
He graduated from ENSIMAG and HEC Paris. He is a recipient of the French National Order of Merit and of the Gold Medal of La Renaissance Française.
More at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Coatanlem
Bertrand Mabille - Co-Founder and Director
Bertrand has been working both in the public sector and in several industries. He was advisor of the French Prime minister in the 90s, in charge of Research and Technology policies. He then worked as general manager in the broadcast, telecommunication, space and travel sectors.
Bertrand is also an investor both in tech startups and larger scaleups.
Since 2017, he is an active partner of EPSA, a consulting group specialized in operational transformation.