Investors

Valérie Gombart, Seventure
Valérie started her career as an analyst with Banque Populaire Creation seed investment fund. In 1997, she was involved with the launch of the first FCPI (Fonds Commun de Placement dans l'Innovation) in France, sponsored by SEVENTURE ; she has since invested more than 50 M€ around 25 high-tech start-ups. Valérie graduated from ESC Nantes and holds a Master degree in Law. Within SEVENTURE, she's the General Partner in charge of the ICT Department. Valérie funded and seated on the Board of Directors of Maximiles (Alternext), Memscap (Eurolist C) and VistaPrint ltd (Nasdaq), from first VC round to IPO. Valérie is a board member of Memscap, Parrot, Sefas, Quescom, Volubill and Xiring and has visiting rights on Tak'imaging Inc Board of Directors.

Jude S. Ngu'Ewodo, Senior Investment Manager, BayTech Venture Capital
Jude has an extensive high tech management experience in Europe and Israel.
Jude is known as a visionary, with a disciplined and focused investment and company development approach. His managerial, operational background, insights and network of relations in Europe and Israel in the Telecommunication, Internet and New Media sectors constitute his “value added” services to his entrepreneurs.
Jude has built a proven track record in founding and advising high growth early and later stage propositions such as:

- Founding Investor of Eyesquad GmbH acquired by Tessera
- Early Stage Investor of Meiosys Inc acquired by IBM
- Investor of ITF acquired by Avensys
- Founding Investor and Board of Director of Spodtronic GmbH
- First Round Investor and Board of Director of Ads-click S.A (Geneva)
- Early Stage Investor and Board of Director of Udcast S.A
- Early Stage Investor and Board of Director of Quescom S.A.

Prior to joining BayTech as General Partner in 2001, Jude has held management and operational functions at Ericsson, Fujitsu and BT. He has also been an M&A advisor to High Tech CEOs.
Jude has an MBA from the State University of New York and an Engineer Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the Technical University of Munich.

Xavier L'Orphelin, SG Asset Management
Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts and the University of Stanford, Xavier Lorphelin began his career in 1996 in the Silicon Valley (United States) at Flextronics International as a Project Director. In 1997, he was Co-founder and Vice-Président of JSource Inc, a Californian company developing embedded software solutions for smart cards and payment terminals for large accounts (Visa, American Express, Sun Microsystems, Gemplus, Schlumberger...). In 1999, he co-founded an investment entity to help in the development of French and American start-ups : aXelerate Partners which is approved in 2001 by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the management of funds of capital investment. In 2000 he is involved in France in the creation of Kangaroo Village, sold in June 2002 to Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM). In June 2002, he joined SGAM Private Equity as a Partner in charge of Venture Capital for new technologies.

Philippe Oros, President and Founder , QuesCom.
Graduated from l'Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, Philippe Oros started his career as a Consultant for several large enterprises. He then became General Manager of Sinfor Electronique. Founder of Synaptel S.A., he worked as President and General Manager until 1996, date of acquisition by Interphase Corporation, where he was appointed Vice-President of WAN Technologies. In 1999, he founded QuesCom.