Leadership Team.

Fabrice is a seasoned executive bringing over 30 years of experience of leadership for global enterprise software companies.

Prior to joining Sinequa, Fabrice was heading Active Circle as President & CEO, where he deployed a strategy focused on storage and archiving for large volumes data, which led to the acquisition of the company by Oodrive in 2014. Before this, he held the COO position at Atempo, a provider of data protection software solutions. In this position, Fabrice drove the Executive Committee, aligning all operations from R&D to Sales & Marketing to execute the worldwide growth strategy. Successively based in France and in the U.S. (Palo Alto), he was a key player in the transformation of Atempo from a regional backup software vendor to a global Data Management company before being acquired by ASG Software in 2011.

Fabrice holds an MBA from HEC Paris and is a graduate of CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Numeun. Fabrice enjoys outdoor activities and is an avid rugby fan.

Mark Williams brings over 30 years of experience in hi-tech financial leadership to this new role, having worked for public and private companies across the UK, France, Sweden, and the US. Mark was part of the original team that established Seal Software in 2010, the contract analytics leader that was acquired by DocuSign in 2020. He joins Sinequa from JDX Consulting Ltd, a global service provider to the banking and financial services industry, where he held the role of CFO for the past two years. During his time there, Mark was responsible for revamping the infrastructure of the company to support it through rapid growth, as well as through business and geographical diversification.

Mark has a degree in Electronic Engineering from London South Bank University and earned his ACA, Chartered Accountancy from Robson Rhodes Chartered Accountants. Mark is an avid cyclist and a rugby fan.

Luc manages Sinequa’s Center of Excellence that he created in 2018. Under this role, Luc oversees today critical activities like the Sinequa University platform, a dedicated team of Subject Matter Experts, and both the Customer Support and Training departments.

Luc collaborated in the development and production of the very first version of Sinequa Search Engine, which has become today one of the leading platforms on the market of Insight Engines. Luc also served as Scientific Director before being promoted VP Global Operations in 2009.

Prior to joining Sinequa and the Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence space in 1997, Luc conducted three years of research in Combinatorics and Graph Theory at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

Luc holds a Master of Theoretical Mathematics and Master II of Theoretical Computer Science from Paris VI University. Luc is a member of the Data Intelligence Cluster of the GICAT representing Sinequa. Luc loves jazz music and plays saxophone.

Laurent drives our overall communications strategy, inclusive of public relations, media relations, internal communications, and analyst relationships.

Prior to this role, Laurent was the Vice President of Marketing. He built the U.S. Marketing team from scratch early on and contributed to start and grow Sinequa’s momentum in North America. He also contributed to establishing Sinequa as a leader repeatedly with analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester.

Laurent brings over 20 years of marketing experience in the software industry where he has worked in a variety of roles, in Europe, San Francisco and New York City. These roles include deep specialization in the areas of product marketing, field marketing/communications, and business development.

Prior to joining Sinequa, Laurent held various management positions at Quantum Corporation, Atempo (Acquired by ASG Software Solutions) and ILOG (acquired by IBM. He is a travel enthusiast and a wine connoisseur.

As Vice President, Sales EMEA, Stephane is responsible for driving sales and expanding channels to accelerate Sinequa's regional growth. With 20 years of sales, project management and business development experience gained in the U.S and Europe, Stephane joins Sinequa from ASG Software Solutions where he was Senior Vice President, Business Development Infrastructure Software. While at ASG Software Solutions, he was responsible for accelerating worldwide growth of infrastructure products through an innovative approach to sales and go-to-market strategy. Prior to ASG Software Solutions, Stephane was Vice President Sales Worldwide for Active Circle and the Managing Director, Northern/Southern Europe for Atempo.

Stephane holds an executive MBA from ESCP Europe as well as a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Paris 6. Stéphane likes books being both a reader and a writer with several short stories published.

Melanie drives Sinequa's global field marketing and demand generation activities. She is a seasoned Marketing leader, having spent her full career in the B2B software industry, at companies like Symantec and Veritas Software, but also at pre-IPO start-ups like Acronis and Exasol. She capitalizes on her 20+ years of expertise to build the Sinequa’s next demand generation engine, focusing on the greatest outcomes for the customers and the partners. She’s passionate about innovation in Marketing, in Digital, and builds marketing into something that delivers measurable value. Mel loves spending time with her 5 children and enjoys skiing with them every winter.

Xavier is in charge of Corporate Development, driving Strategic Alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well geographic expansions.

Prior to this role, Xavier was the senior vice president of Sales for North America where he established and led Sinequa’s U.S. operations and its successful expansion in the region.

Xavier started his career at IBM and worked over 20 years in various sales and leadership positions in the enterprise software space. Xavier has a strong track record to build high-performance sales teams and develop key relationships with F500 clients and partners.

Xavier is an avid runner with multiple marathons under his belt.

Bob Lewis is a highly experienced sales executive in global enterprise software. Over the course of his career, he has led teams who have sold complex software to over 500 global enterprises, totalling over $2.5 billion. Having started his career at IBM, Bob has served in senior positions with ERP pioneers SSA, Baan and SAP, been the CEO of four early and mid-stage start-ups, and served on 7 Boards of Directors of companies as they scaled rapidly. He is a strong believer in developing joint value propositions with system integration partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) to serve the needs of customers.

Bob joined Sinequa from Engage3, a company that applies advanced data science, machine learning and AI to help retailers optimise Price Image. He supported Engage3 through a period of explosive growth, serving the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) retailers in North America.

Bob is a graduate of Princeton University. In his free time, Bob is a Master Scuba Diver Trainer with PADI and has made over 3000 dives on six continents.

As VP of Product Strategy, Jeff Evernham sets the strategy for Sinequa’s software offerings and also leads Product Marketing. Jeff is a thought leader in the realm of applying technology to business problems, and guides the product roadmap so that Sinequa’s technical innovations lead to thrilled customers. As the Product Marketing lead, he defines the go-to-market strategy and communicates Sinequa’s value proposition. Prior to assuming this role, Jeff spent four years as VP of Customer Solutions, where he led the consulting team that brought Sinequa’s technical expertise to customers, partners, and prospects. Jeff’s 20+ year career spans a variety of firms and includes data analytics consulting, professional services, sales, and engineering.

Jeff holds a Master of Engineering degree from MIT.

Adrien leads Sinequa’s Cloud & SaaS department where his team is responsible to design and take to market next gen [cloud native/SaaS] products on top of Sinequa’s technology.

Adrien joined Sinequa in 2016 as one of the first Senior Sales Engineer in New York where he brought in some key customers and greatly contributed to Sinequa’s expansion in North America. In 2018, he moved to Sinequa’s headquarters in Paris and headed the development of Sinequa’s AI business solutions, connecting the dots between all the different stakeholders in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning technologies.

Prior to joining Sinequa, Adrien started his career in the Energy Efficiency & Smart Grid space where he developed one of the first investment fund dedicated to the financing of energy reduction assets.

Adrien graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and received a Master of Science in Management Science & Engineering from Columbia University.

Philippe brings over 25 years of software engineering and development management experience to Sinequa, having previously led engineering teams for leading software companies. Philippe oversees the development and evolution of the company’s AI-powered Search & Analytics Platform. As such, he is managing the research and development, including the machine learning, the natural language processing and the quality assurance departments.

Previously Philippe was at Oodrive, a European-based leading independent software company for sensitive data management, where he was chief technology officer in charge of accelerating development, offering customers a high level of quality and security. Prior to joining Oodrive, Philippe held various software engineering management positions at Atempo and Active Circle, which was acquired by Oodrive. Motet holds a Master of Science degree from Supélec. Besides developing software, Philippe loves to ski in the snowy mountains around the world.