Internet Executive, Entrepreneur, Advisor, Mentor. Always amazed by what nice people and motivated teams can achieve. Seasoned digital executive with entrepreneurial, commercial and managerial experience in B2B/SaaS (TouchCommerce, Webjam Enterprise social networks) and B2C/Media/eCommerce (Yahoo! , Groupe01-NextRadioTV) encompassing launching and managing new products or companies, selling and closing deals, fund-raising & M&A, and most importantly team leadership. Citizen of the world having lived in Europe, the US and Asia. Passionate about innovation and how the internet is fundamentally changing the way people think, work, live, and interact. Specialties: internet, SaaS, B2B, web2.0, social media, e-commerce, social networks, enterprise 2.0, general management, revenue generation, product management, product marketing, business development, media agencies, multi-channel, partnership management, sales, negotiation, business planning, fund raising, advertising, RTB, ad exchanges, innovation, entrepreneurship... and having fun.

SVP Strategy and Business Development @ What started as a consulting assignment on social commerce evolved into various projects ranging from new strategic initiatives to an interim position managing the French Operations in Paris. Now based in sunny Los Angeles at the headquarters (Agoura Hills) and a member of the company's executive management team focusing on : . strategic roadmap . business development and partner eco-system . corporate development and M&A TouchCommerce is a leader in Enterprise Omni-channel Engagement solutions, providing corporations with best-in-class live and automated engagement tools and services (chat, guides and much more, see www.touchcommerce.com ) allowing our clients to dramatically boost consumer acquisition and retention. The company has customers in the US, Europe and Asia and sits at the crossing of some of the most exciting trends in the ever-evolving digital revolution : mobile and social, SaaS and tech-enabled services, Cloud and Big Data. TouchCommerce is at the forefront of how we as consumers and professionals buy and get served both on-line and off-line, making sense of changing user behavior (show rooming, social media…) through ground-breaking technologies such as real-time targeting, Natural Language Processing or X-Channel monitoring to name just a few. Check out our vision on http://bit.ly/1MRH782 From January 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Paris then Los AngelesManaging Director @ Consulting for leading B2C and B2B companies in the fields of digital expansion, e-commerce, social media, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS, and market entry strategies in Europe. Clients range from Meltwater, Mediametrie-Nielsen, SRI or TouchCommerce Taught at various schools such as ESSEC or HETIC; mentored through the EBA on executivebusinessaccelerator.com From May 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 8 months) ParisDeputy MD ("DGA") @ “Directeur General Adjoint” of Groupe 01, now Next Interactive Media within the NextRadioTV group, with the mission to develop digital activites across the whole group for the brands RMC, RMCSport, BFMTV, BFM Business, 01Net and the various tech magazines of Groupe 01 such as “01 Business & Technologies” (ex-01 Informatique), “Micro-Hebdo”, “OI-SVM” … Main websites include rmc.fr, rmcsport.fr, bfmtv.fr, bfmbusiness.com and 01net.com. Key brands were refocused on growth areas, from video for BFM to product reviews for 01net and social media for RMC with the lauch of rmctalk.fr centered on debates (like the Huffington Post). Strategic initiatives included the revamping of mobile apps, inroads in the connected TV market and media syndication to third party sites, while conducting a restructuring that saw people transferred from print to the digital businesses. NextRadioTV is the leading French independent Media Company, listed on Euronext Paris since 2005. It operates : - two radio channels: the third French commercial radio RMC, and BFM Business, the only business / economy radio channel in France. - three TV networks : BFM TV, France's leading news TV channel, BFM Business, the TV counterpart to the radio, and RMC Decouverte, a French equivalent to Discovery - 01 Net, the leading French website about all things related to technology - Various IT newspapers as mentioned above. NextRadioTV is profitable and had a turnover of €155M in 2011 From March 2011 to February 2012 (1 year) ParisCo-Founder and CEO @ Co-founder and CEO of Webjam, a VC-funded Enterprise Social Networking Solution allowing companies to create external or internal networks to boost employee and/or consumer engagement. Webjam won prestigious clients in the B2B2C space, with white-label social networks created for companies such as Random House, Sony or NME (Time Warner music magazine), and built Enterprise 2.0 social intranets for Unilever, Global radio or the media agency WPP. Awards received in both B2C and B2B space include 2007 People Choice in .Net magazine, 2008 Red Herring Europe 100, Guardian Tech Media Invest for 2009 and 2010 and Communicate Magazine 2010 Digital Impact awards for Best Intranet. Webjam was acquired by private investors in 2010. From May 2006 to November 2010 (4 years 7 months) London, United KingdomVP Product Management, Europe @ Over 7 years at Yahoo!, held various positions in London and Paris running business units, business development and product management as well as content, e-commerce, mobile, and distribution related business development activities. Managed distributed teams of several dozens of people in many countries, including product managers, product marketers, business planners, designers, engineers, bizdev, ... Last role involved managing the Entertainment & Media Business Unit as well as the Communications & Community business units at European level while working on the integration of Overture and Kelkoo. From July 1998 to April 2006 (7 years 10 months) London and ParisSenior Associate @ LBO, Private Equity, M&A deals for privately-held companies From September 1991 to June 1996 (4 years 10 months) Tokyo and Paris

MBA, Business @ Harvard Business School From 1996 to 1998 Bachelor's Degree, Economics @ ESSEC From 1989 to 1991 Yann Motte is skilled in: Product Management, Web 2.0, Social Media, Business Planning, Social Networking, general management, business development, fund raising, B2C, B2B, SaaS, Sales Management, Business Development, Fundraising, Marketing, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Management, E-commerce, Strategic Partnerships, Mobile Applications, Business Strategy, Business Modeling, Start-up, Strategy, Mobile Devices, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising, Digital Strategy, Product Marketing