   , MBA, President and co-founder
Christian brings to the Company over 20 years of sales and marketing experience. As a top performer, he has received many awards for his sales achievements and lived with the pressures of making quotas and Sales Clubs for years. He held the position of VP of Sales and Marketing at Xerox for more than 7 years and more recently the position of President for a software consulting firm. Christian has extensive experience in managing/training sales and marketing teams and in building and launching startup companies.
 , Director - BYS France
Hubert brings to the company a wealth of international technology start-up management experience. After pioneering the early development of the Internet in the 1970s, he founded and led Chorus Systems, a system software start-up, whose operating system was adopted by major computer and telecom manufacturers around the world. Following the acquisition of Chorus by Sun, Hubert spent 5 years with Sun, first as Director of Telecom Business Development and then as Director, High Availability Telecom Software. After 9 years in the Silicon Valley, Hubert moved back to France in 2003 to lead other French start-ups to success in the international market. Hubert has engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and from Telecom ParisTech/Paris (formerly ENST).
 , Senior Executive Coach - BYS USA.
Emilian is an innovative and energetic leader, skilled communicator, and adept negotiator with broad strengths in general management, sales operations, marketing, strategic planning, acquisitions integration and customer relationship management. He has diverse public and private company experience, including 28 years with British Telecom, Cisco and as an independent consultant. He is recognized for his ability to establish a common vision organization-wide and then develop high-performance teams that exceed established goals, whether they be growth, greater profits, or cutting-edge improvements in business processes. Emilian completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School, and he earned a M.S. in Cybernetics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Romania, with a concentration in Intelligent Networks & Network Neuro-Analysis.
 , Director, US Operations - BYS USA.
Tim Connelly has over 25 years of experience in high tech engineering, marketing and management. Prior to Boost Your Startup, Tim was CEO and Chief Accounting Officer of EasyWare Software (aka IClubCentral), the leading supplier of partnership accounting software for investment clubs in the US. Tim was also Director of Custom IT Consulting at Dataquest (acquired by Gartner Group). Tim was one of three managers who established a medical laser system division at a leading commercial laser company, Spectra Physics. He holds an honors MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the former President and Director of the MIT Club of Northern California.
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Stu Jeffery is a wireless telecommunications consultant with over 25 years experience in both commercial and defense fixed and wireless communications systems. His career has included managing the Electronic Warfare group of GTE Government Systems, Business Development at Synacom Corporation, developer of GSM/CDMA networking products, and Product Management at Sensitron, developer of wireless applications for medical facilities.Current projects include assisting municipalities and community colleges in developing and implementing wireless networks. He is an adviser and on the board of directors of several companies, including the Wireless Communication Alliance, www.wca.org, Silicon Valley's premier wireless professional organization. He has a degree in Physics from Ohio State University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
, Market Research Consultant - BYS USA.
Greg has worked in technical and marketing roles for a number of high-technology companies, in areas as diverse as remote computing and network services, document image conversion, knowledge management, Y2K software tools and graphic image masking. These firms have ranged in size from startups to Fortune 500, including Tymshare/Tymnet (McDonald-Douglas), West Coast Information Systems (WESCO), and Paravue Corporation (image processing). Greg also has worked as an industry analyst, consultant, and manager for top market research and consulting firms such as Dataquest, Frost & Sullivan, and the Gartner Group. Greg has extensive international business experience, and an academic background in international studies and quantitative social sciences. He has a Bachelor's degree from Yale and a Master’s degree from Georgetown University.
, Financial Modeling Consultant - BYS USA.
Anthony brings 20+ years of financial management experience: He has assisted startups and small businesses on various matters including angel and venture financings, acquisitions, financial modeling, due diligence, accounting systems automation, financial reporting and internal controls. As a consulting CFO, Anthony helps startup entrepreneurs put together the pieces of their financial puzzle by providing a solid foundation from which to successfully raise capital, manage growth and achieve liquidity. Prior to launching Venture Momentum in 1994, Anthony held senior management positions in finance and corporate planning with Nexcom Technology, Inc., Fair Isaac Corporation and a consulting group in France. Anthony holds an MBA in Finance from New York University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Ecole Centrale de Paris in France.
, Senior Executive Coach - BYS USA.
Robert brings over 20 years of senior-level executive experience in general management, sales & marketing and business development for large public companies and start-ups based in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Robert was recently VP Worldwide Technical Services at Check Point software. He was also VP Marketing and Business Development with Imera, a secure enterprise collaboration vendor, CEO for Solsoft, a network security management company and COO of Boostworks, an Internet acceleration software company. Robert also held a variety of high-level product marketing, technical services and development management positions at Dassault Systems, Hitachi and IBM. Robert holds a MS degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, France.
 , PhD, Technology Consultant - BYS USA.
John brings 20+ years of experience and knowledge of semiconductor and solar technology, encompassing marketing, manufacturing, and product development. John has in-depth technical expertise in semiconductor devices and manufacturing technology, and focuses on understanding complex technical attributes of products with the goal of transition to marketing products utilizing such technologies. He has knowledge of international customers and markets in Asia and Europe. Recently he has presented several technical papers at international conferences covering solar technology.
 , Senior Executive Coach - BYS USA.
Michelle is a market readiness expert assisting international companies with their revenue growth and export expansion into the U.S. market. As president of Explora International LLC, a global direction and strategy consulting firm, she has worked with technology product and service companies, as well as food and consumer product organizations. Her prior executive level positions in high-technology, as a VP Sales, VP Marketing, and Director of Business Development in public and private companies, provides a strong operational foundation to coach companies on their export readiness and increase their probability for success in new markets. She has extensive experience in positioning, message and content creation, demand generation programs, and direct sales. Michelle speaks at conferences and delivers market preparedness workshops throughout the world. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
, Director - BYS Spain.
Benoit is an advisor for world-renown leaders in their new ventures as well as institutions and government agencies from three continents. Benoit headed international Sales at Inexbee and was CEO at Irizon, both companies offering mobile services for consumers. He worked as a consultant for US technology start-ups in Boston and helped design their expansion plans in Europe. Benoit is part of several formal and non-formal entrepreneur and investor networks and received a bachelor degree in Business Management and Information Technologies from Dauphine University (Paris).
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