French Tech Podcast - London

Cecile is French-born long time London based entrepreneur. She founded Seraphine in 2002 aiming to revolutionise the maternity wear industry and she did! 

She wanted to create fashionable clothes that women would want to wear even if they weren’t pregnant.

Today Seraphine is the #1 destination for stylish maternity clothes and boasts a celebrity following to rival the biggest fashion houses in the business. To name a few Pipa Middleton, Mila Kunis, Anne Hathaway and of course the Duchess of Cambridge all chose Seraphine 👏👏 

With flagship stores in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai & New Delhi, Seraphine enjoys a global reputation as the go-to brand for style-conscious mums-to-be.

In the episode Mathilde Bacholle, Community Lead for La French Tech London asks Cecile about her early days founding Seraphine, her first big investment decisions and quite naturally about how her team weathered the Covid storm and what the next normal looks like for them. Good news, they already had a plan to better serve customers online and are just about to activate it. 

A warm thank you for accepting this invitation from French Tech London! 

Lilian has over 20 years of experience in executive search internationally. He regularly collaborates with La French Tech London and it was only natural to invite him as a guest to speak about what he knows so well: Recruiting High Profiles for Start-ups and Scale-ups. 

Helene Alunni-Botteri, Board member and Lead on the FinTech Group of La French Tech London interviews him. Their fire chat is followed by a Q&A session with some of the volunteers who regularly collaborate with us. 

A bit more about Lilian: 

He specializes in technology, telco & consulting across high-growth PE, venture-backed, and public companies. He has completed assignments for Board Directors, CEOs, COOs, and Senior Executives across all industries. Lilian also coordinates Erevena’s growing presence in SaaS, ecommerce & Fintech globally, with a focus on EMEA initiatives.

Having executed searches in more than 30 countries he recognizes, and bridges cultural diversities encountered by multinational clients, recruiting executives who can achieve corporate goals and drive change in emerging and growth environments.

https://erevena.com 

QUANTUM series - Exploring the 2nd Quantum Revolution

Professor ASPECT is known for his experiments illuminating the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics. 

He was one of the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. He shared his prize with American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum information science.

He is being interviewed by Anne Gaelle Chasles, President of IBM France Financement, Pierre-Frederic Jaffre & Mathilde Bacholle Board members of La French Tech London. Believe us, he makes everything sounds quite simple and straightforward!

He is an alumni of ENS Cachan and Université d'Orsay. He has held positions at Institut d'Optique, ENS Cachan & Collège de France, CNRS. He is currently a professor at Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Augustin Fresnel chair), and at Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau. 

His research has borne on tests of Bell's inequalities with entangled photon (PhD, 1974-1983), wave-particle duality for single photons (1984-86, with Philippe Grangier); laser cooling of atoms with lasers below the one photon recoil (1985-1992, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji); ultra-cold atoms, quantum gases, and quantum simulators (1992- , in the Atom Optics group he has established at Institut d'Optique).

Access the 2 MOOCs referred to during the episode | not quite the Quantum for Dummies kind as per Professor Aspect's own words!

Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons and Quantum Optics 2 - Two photons and more

Our QUANTUM series also include

- An interview with Jean-Paul Herteman, ex-CEO and Chairman of SAFRAN who co-authored the report “Quantum, the opportunity that France won’t miss” in January 2020 (+ Paula Forteza and Iordanis Kerenidis)

- A WEBINAR session aired on Tuesday June 30th which will be split into several episodes - to be announced

Those episodes are brought to you thanks to the help of the Volunteers of the DEEPTECH group of la French Tech London.

La French Tech London

Francois is the Founder and CEO of CircaGene, is interviewed by Raph Crouan, and Mathilde Bacholle, Resp. President and Community Lead of La French Tech London

Francois is an expert in the analysis of genetic data by molecular biology and bioinformatics, and a patent inventor. 

In 20+ years’ experience he has established dozens of innovative tests in Molecular Biology for wide applications (IVD, food pathogens detection, GMOs, environmental protection, human genetics, space protection). Francois cofounded CircaGene to provide scientifically valid, ethical and secure genetic analyses.

Where people can choose to have their genetic information analysed, that should remain secured and accurate.

Francois speaks about his entrepreneur journey which started in the labs of Institut Pasteur.  He comes back on the reasons why he chose to establish his company in the UK, and shares his thoughts on keys to a successful COVID contact tracing solution. 

Visit www.circagene.com

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La French Tech London

Philippe Gelis, CEO & Co-founder at Kantox is interviewed by Helene Alunni-Botteri, Board Member of La French Tech London, Lead on the FinTech group. 

Philippe Gelis is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Kantox, a leading currency management software company, with headquarters in London. He founded the company in 2011, with Antonio Rami and John Carbajal.Recognised as a global Fintech Thought Leader and Influencer, Philippe began his career as a strategy and management consultant, spending several years with Deloitte. He holds an MSc in Business Strategy and an MBA in Corporate Finance, both from Toulouse Business School. Philippe speaks French, Spanish and English and counts good cuisine and motorsport among his interests.

Twitter: @pgelis 

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This episode is brought to you thanks to the volunteers of the FINTECH group