About Jonathan
đ In a nutshellâŠ
- 15 years of product leadership experience in B2B startups and scale-ups, with a strong focus on machine learning (Criteo) & artificial intelligence (Squadra).
- Strong technological and scientific appetite (data/ML products, blockchain, AI), polytechnician by training.
- I help founders and product teams align tech, business, and product, regain control of their roadmap, and upskill.
đ„· Intervention Methods
- Support for CEOs, founders, and executives (strategic sprint over 2-3 weeks). Redesign of organization or product strategy: diagnosis (strategy, organization, decision-making processes), clarification & alignment of stakeholders around the product vision, action plan grounded in the team's capabilities.
- Individual or groupCoachingfor PMs, Heads of, founders (1-2 days/week) focused on Product practices (roadmap, discovery, deliveryâŠ), leadership training, and organizational setup.
đ Experience
- Product & Business Leader: Criteo (2013-17, launched offline opportunity, from $0 to $100M revenue); Nodle (2021-22, Director of Network & Business Development, $0 to $5M revenue, 1M+ token holders via mobile app).
- Individual and Team Coaching: within beta.gouv.fr (2018-25) (DINUM, Ministry of Culture, Ademe), EntrepreneurFirst (2021-22), Numa, Makesense.
- Entrepreneur: CPO of Brickchain (exited 2019), CEO of Squadra (2024), side business where I productize my practice (coaching, strategy, marketing) into a product for freelancers.
- Teaching: Professor at EPITA since 2022 in the Entrepreneurship major, author of Internet, Année Zéro (Divergences, 2021), speaker.
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Spanish
Fluent
German
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Experience
- Squadra.aiCo-founder â Delivering Products & Services based on AI and LLMsTECHJuly 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)We help companies building robust products based on generative AI, beyond POC. We also build our own products. In particular, we deploy custom AI assistants and autonomous agents that can access the company's resources in Notion, Slack, in their CRM, their drive, and automate data operations in these systems. We provide the tools to monitor and evaluate these operations, and optimize and fine tune the agents.Past & Current Projects include :- Singulart : customer-facing Sales Agent able to search across 1M+ product in natural language.- Descartes&Mauss: Audited AI processes and operations.- Point Nine Capital: community-facing Slackbot, supporting portfolio startups based on an internal knowledge base.- Atidgo : developing autonomous agents accessible through Whatsapp to streamline communications and orders between hotels, cafĂ©s, restaurants and their suppliers.- Stealth projects : enhancing attorneys's operations in accessing millions of law documents. Enabling consulting companies in accessing the dormant knowledge from past missions.
- Year OneFounder â Consulting services for startups, VC funds and incubatorsCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2015 - Today (11 years and 7 months)Paris, FranceInterim management :Apr 2021 - March 2023 â Nodle â San FranciscoI structured product and engineering processes, built and developed the economic model for the NODL token, then restructured and headed the business development team and strategyProduct consulting :Organization of teams at startup scale, structuring of product processes and methodologies adapted for startups & Scaleups, individual coaching and skill development support for junior profiles, for companies such as Sonio.ai (use of learning algorithms for prenatal diagnostic assistance: medical, AI), Kolsquare (influencer marketing), Arkea.Coaching :Approximately two startups per year coached since 2015 in the following incubators and investment funds: Numa (formerly Le Camping, Datacity program), Andurance Ventures, Makesense.For startups: in 2020 alone: Sonio.ai (use of learning algorithms for prenatal diagnostic assistance: medical, AI), Kolsquare (influencer marketing).
- EntrepreneurFirstVenture PartnerPRIVATE EQUITYApril 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 10 months)Paris, FranceAs a Venture Partner, my role was to help the fund's entrepreneurs grow their projects, from team creation to their Seed round.
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Education
- Engineer from Ecole PolytechniqueEcole Polytechnique2010Mathématiques appliquées et économie.
- Industrial EngineerUniversitat PolitĂšcnica de Catalunya2009Double-degree obtained as part of the curriculum at the Ecole Polytechnique. My masters thesis on Hydroelectric projects in the Indian Himalayas earned 1st prize in the Energy category.