Speaker's Profile

Hervé has a successful corporate (Apple) and entrepreneur experience. During the last 9 years, he has co-founded and developed few startups in the AI sector and have done great exits.

Prior to that he was the Group CTO of GEMS Education, the world’s leading provider of quality K-12 education. He also spent 12 years at Apple where he was the EMEIA Director and member of the European Leadership Team, from 2000 to 2012 . There, he was leading the sales & marketing as well as the business development of Apple in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa for the Education markets, a $2 billion business. As an autonomous executive with a successful career in sales, operations, marketing and team management, he has been an expatriate for more than 20 years (USA, Latin America, UK, UAE), and his extensive international experience makes him a business leader with a strong multi-cultural touch.

Before joining Apple, he was Managing Director of the Latin American division of Packard Bell NEC and was responsible for the Operations, Sales and Marketing of the territory. Previous to his work at Packard Bell NEC, he was the Sales Director of Zenith Data System for the account "French DoD".

He earned an Executive MBA from “HEC”, ranked in top 2 Business school in Europe and in the top 20 Worldwide and he is the owner of MdM Consulting, a consulting firm based in the U.A.E.