Marc Alloul is an Engineer/Physicist turned entrepreneur, spending the last eighteen years in both large publicly traded as well as smaller private equity funded companies where he developed and brought to market innovative technology & marketing solutions to some of the world's leading telecom operators and media groups.
Marc is currently Managing Partner of W2/W3 Investments, a private Québec investment firm that targets businesses with high growth potential, as well as strategic advisor to several companies where he is a shareholder, board member or mentor. Recently, as an active member of the management team, he instrumented the sale of Sarbakan to Adrenaline, Bight Games to Electronic Arts and Mobitween to Zed Group. He was VP M&A for Airborne Entertainment (sold to Cybird) & GM of Indiqu (sold to Mforma/Hands-on Mobile), both pioneers in mobile entertainment.
Leading up to this, Marc was with Schlumberger’s Mobile Communications (now Gemalto) for more than 5 years in a variety of countries & senior leadership roles across products and sales.
He worked as well for IBM’s Silicon Gate line in France.
Marc earned a M.Sc. in Quantum Physics from McGill University, Canada, a M.Sc. in Mobile Communications from the EURECOM Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, the leading French telecommunications Engineering School.
Specialties: Global international business & operating experience in Asia Pacific, EMEA & North America with IBM, Schlumberger but as well as with VC/Angel backed startups.
expertise in Mobile & Online Entertainment; developing innovative business in a complex international environment; exposure to several financing, to an IPO process and numerous successful exit strategies.
Managing Partner @ W Investments Inc. is a Canadian investment firm, created by entrepreneurs, targeting technology and media related profitable companies with a proven track record and strong potential for growth. We help develop the potential of the organizations in which we invest. Using the approach of an entrepreneur, we work closely with companies on their development by reinforcing their strengths and maximizing their efficiency without necessarily disrupting their business model or affecting key individuals in place. We promote talent, and we ensure positive change and guarantee expansion while bringing in added value which makes all the difference.
We think like investors, we act like entrepreneurs. From July 2011 to Present (4 years 4 months) Montreal, Canada AreaCo-Founder, Corporate Development & Strategy @ Budgeto is an online, incredibly user friendly application allowing entrepreneurs to build and share budgets in a few clicks.
Budgeto is targeting enablers in the startup community, or places like accelerators, incubators, universities, entrepreneurs associations, investors, banks and more.
For more information or to open a free account, visit: www.budgetoapp.com From April 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Montreal, Canada AreaPartner - Corporate Development & Srategy @ Complex Games is a leading mobile game development studio with a strong expertise in free-to-play game design, with over 12 years of proven experience creating and delivering top-selling, award-winning mobile games for some of the world’s largest game publishers and entertainment brands. Complex Games uses its powerful Multiplex Engine to develop cutting-edge real-time synchronous multiplayer strategy & action games for smartphones and tablets. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Advisory Board Member - Corporate Development @ icejam is about to deliver a transformative next step in mobile games and gamer engagement that offers the potential for tremendous growth. icejam’s Playable Data™ Platform, will create world-class mobile content incorporating real-time global, local and personal streams of big data into mobile gameplay. It will provide players with a great new experience in a constantly changing, context-aware game environment.
Stuart Duncan, Icejam founder previously worked on hit free-to-play mobile games NBA Jam, Trade Nations and The Simpsons: Tapped Out before selling his company, Bight Games, to Electronic Arts. From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Advisory Board Member @ Retinad is the first analytics and advertising platform for virtual reality. Retinad currently allows hundreds VR developers to track advanced analytics about their app, for free.
Retinad Unity plugin is compatible with Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard. From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Mentor @ FounderFuel is a mentor-driven accelerator that helps early stage web, mobile, and SaaS startups raise seed capital through access to veteran entrepreneurs, angel investors, VCs, and senior executives.
FounderFuel is backed by the team behind Montreal Startup and Real Ventures (a $100+ million seed-stage fund). From June 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Montreal, Canada AreaMentor @ Execution Labs is a first-of-its kind, hybrid game incubator and go-to-market accelerator that helps independent game developers produce games and bring them to market. The company’s goal is to enable experienced developers to become true entrepreneurs and pursue their dreams of creative independence. It is based in Montreal with a business outpost in San Francisco. From November 2012 to Present (3 years) Judge @ Created in 1981, promoted by Concordia University, the John Molson MBA International Case Competition builds on a tradition of excellence. The competition brings both academic and corporate worlds together through its challenging case presentation format.
This competition is one of the most important of it’s kind worldwide, with more than 36 teams from Global Executive MBAs from various continent, and the most important in Canada. From January 2009 to Present (6 years 10 months) Advisor - Corporate Development & Strategy @ The PaymentPin Payment solutions allow customers to charge purchases on the web and on their mobile phone to their carrier bill, landline and mobile. For merchants, additional payment methods add new revenue streams unlocking segments of customers who do not possess a valid credit card or are reluctant to use their credit card online because of concerns around privacy and security. From September 2010 to Present (5 years 2 months) Montreal, Canada AreaAdvisor - Corporate Development & Strategy @ Sherpa RTLS Solutions Inc,. offers a range of mobile applications as well as software & hardware solutions to hundreds of conferences & tradeshows across continents.
Sherpa has proven its leadership in bringing to market meaningful solutions to the event industry with its ActivLocator revolutionary geolocation solution as well as its ActivTouch family of mobile products. ActivTouch was awarded the prestigious EIBTM Worldwide Technology Watch award in Barcelona, Spain. Sherpa has launched ActivMetrics, a technology which uses a number of Wi-Fi sensors to provide tradeshow organizers with accurate heat maps of the entire show floor helping them introduce zone pricing. Clients include among others: Reed Exhibition USA, Reed Latin America, Reed France, UBM Canon, Nielsen, Questex, Penton, as well as a large number of professional associations. From February 2011 to Present (4 years 9 months) Montreal, Canada AreaBoard Member - Corporate Development & Strategy @ Adrenaline Amusements acquired Sarbakan in May 2013
Founded in 1998, Sarbakan delivers memorable and high quality experiences for its worldwide publishing partners and customers. From online and iOS titles to downloadable handheld and console games, Sarbakan has created over 800 titles since its inception and also offers a wide variety of mobile and digital console game development services. World-renowned media and entertainment giants such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Namco-Bandai, Square-Enix, Electronic Arts, Turner Broadcasting System, News Corp, Ubisoft, Playmobil, and Kabam turn to Sarbakan for its unique and insanely creative approach to creating original IPs. From September 2011 to May 2013 (1 year 9 months) Corporate Development & Strategy @ Electronic Arts (EA) acquired Bight Games in Aug 2011.
Bight Games was a leading, innovative developer and publisher of social mobile games and mobile entertainment content. Bight created a portfolio of compelling mobile games Utilizing Bight’s proprietary bightCode™.
Bight Games leading game creation, Trade Nations ™ was declared at that time as “the best social game we’ve seen on the iPhone yet” by Jim Squires at Gamezebo.
Bight conceived, developed and produced the Top Grossing Electronic Arts' mega hit “The Simpsons: Tapped Out” which eclipsed over $300 million in life-to-date digital net revenue, and has been constantly in the top 20 iPhone grossing games in the U.S, since launching in August 2012.” From July 2010 to August 2011 (1 year 2 months) General Manager @ In charge of Mobitween's Financing, Business & M&A strategy, leading to it's acquisition by Zed Group in September 2008.
Zed, the multiplatform digital entertainment company, develops and markets entertainment and community products and services. The company is the leading mobile value-added services (MVAS) player in the world in terms of revenue and geographical footprint. Zed operates in 60 countries, including Europe's largest markets, USA, India and China and holds agreements with more than 130 wireless operators all over the world.
Mobitween was a leading developer and publisher of Flash based games for mobile and online worlds.
By leveraging its Flash based mobile game development the company introduced ugenGames, a web 2.0 User Generated Content and Social Networking Service. Mobitween's goal was to be the first Game 2.0 company bridging the gap between online & mobile game developers and players, allowing them to create, customize, embed and share games.
Mobigamz, the world's first Flash Lite based mobile gaming portal, a client-server vending machine that replicates the web browsing model enabling players to download, play, rate and post hi-scores through a rich-media and customizable Flash Lite client was one of the first of its kind to be launch by Verizon Wireless in 2008. From September 2006 to January 2010 (3 years 5 months) Vice President, Corporate Development and M&A @ Major achievements: Instrumental in both acquisition and integration of targeted companies before Airborne itself was sold for over $100 million to Cybird of Japan in 2005 and was honored the following year as North America’s 4th-Fastest Growing Tech Company in Deloitte’s Fast 500 ranking.
Merger & Acquisition; overall mid and long term Business, Corporate Strategy and Vision; International Distribution.
Airborne Entertainment was the leading turnkey mobile publisher, creating, deploying, distributing and managing the most compelling mobile games and entertainment for the world's most recognizable media and consumer brands. Airborne Entertainment distributes its specialty channels and programs to all top-tier wireless carriers, reaching nearly 100% of all enabled mobile subscribers in North America. From June 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 3 months) Montreal, Canada AreaDirector of Business Development @ Director of Business Development (Europe and Asia)
Pre-sale, Partnership and Marketing for OZ Mobile IM Gateway Solution (Integrators, Carriers)
Involved in the definition and implementation of Company Strategy for Third party, Hosting and Managed Services Selection. From March 2003 to January 2004 (11 months) Director of Sales & Business Development @ Director of Sales & Business Development, (North America & Europe)
Pre-sale, Partnership and Marketing for Picatel Multimodal Wireless Vocal Navigation Solution (Integrators, Carriers, and Applications provider)
Major achievements: Endorsement by Orange World, Bouygues and T-Mobile leading to strategic trials and experimentations. Involved in the definition and implementation of Company Strategy, marketing, operations and Product road map. From April 2002 to January 2003 (10 months) Managing Director, Europe @ Managing Director, Europe (Paris, Madrid, Dublin and London Offices)
& General Manager, Canada
Responsible for Business Development in North America; Pre-sale and Marketing for both Servers & Mobile Based Entertainment Services.
Major achievements: Signed the first two North American Agreements for the company.
Set up all aspect of the Canadian Indiqu subsidiary (office & team).
Established a leading position for Indiqu within the Wireless Entertainment Industry.
Agreements with 20 leading carriers (including leading carriers in North America such as Bell Mobility , Rogers Wireless, Telus Mobility, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint PCS, Nextel, and carriers in Europe, such as Bouygues Telecom,Orange, Telefonica, KPN, Mobistar, Eircell and others). From March 2000 to March 2002 (2 years 1 month) Director, Solutions Sales, Mobile Communications Solutions @ Dec 98 to Mar 2000 Schlumberger Test & Transactions, Smart Card & Terminals, North America
Director, Solutions Sales, Mobile Communications Solutions
Marketing & Consulting Manager, Mobile Communications Solutions (based in Canada)
Responsible for Business Development in North America, Pre-sale and Marketing for both Systems & Servers (Over the Air Platform) and Java based SIM cards Applications.
Major achievements: Successful commercial introduction of an innovator Mobile Banking value added services for the first time in North America and one of the first in the world.
Jan 97 to Dec 98 Schlumberger Test & Transactions, Smart Card Division, Montrouge France
Product Marketing Manager, Mobile Communications
Introduction of a new innovator product: Over The Air Customization (OTAC).
Guest speaker at key conferences in the field of Mobile Communications; such as Pre-Payment and Value Added Services. ETSI – Special Mobile Group representative. From December 1995 to March 2000 (4 years 4 months) Technical leader @ I B M Corbeil Essonne France, (while studying at the same time)
Technical leader within a Semiconductor wafer production line:
Hot process, doping and epitaxy of the silicon substrate. From June 1990 to June 1992 (2 years 1 month)
Master, Theoretical Physics (Quantum & Solid State Physics) @ McGill University From 1992 to 1993 Graduate Degree - Engineering, Telecommunications @ Telecom ParisTech From 1993 to 1995 Master's Degree, Mobile Communications @ EURECOM From 1994 to 1995 Marc Alloul is skilled in: Corporate Development, Business Strategy, M&A experience, Mobile, Online Entertainment, Venture Capital, International Business, Start-ups, Asia Pacific, EMEA, IPO, International..., Turnarounds, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Devices, Game Development, Telecommunications, Online Platforms, Turn Around Management, Mobile Games, Strategy, Mobile Applications, Go-to-market Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wireless, Management, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Mobile Communications, Mobile Content, Integration, Project Management, Leadership, Product Marketing, Product Management, Monetization, Solutions Marketing, Social Games, Global Business..., Mobile Internet, Mobile Commerce, Business Modeling, Mobile Payments, Mobile Advertising, Angel Investing, Mobile Technology, Mobile Strategy, Start-up
Websites:
http://www.winvestments.ca,
http://www.complexgames.com,
http://founderfuel.com/mentor/marc-alloul/