MJ

Marc Jalabert

Partner at Acequia Capital

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2018

    Investor in early stage tech startups www.acecap.com

2019

  • Président du Conseil

    2019

2011

  • Member

    2011

1998 - 2018

  • General Manager Marketing & Operations

    2016 - 2018

    Drove overall business performance, cloud transformation and data/AI priority across commercial and consumer business for the 12 countries of Microsoft Western Europe [Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland]. Marketing, Product Management, PR, Compete, Customer and Partner satisfaction, Business Planning.

  • Consumer Channels Group General Manager

    2011 - 2016

    Launched and ran Microsoft's integrated consumer division in France. Full P&L responsibility accros retail and online consumer businesses : gaming, PCs, phones. Xbox, Surface, Kinect, Windows Phone, Windows, Office, Office365, retail and online sales, PC OEMs, Phone OEMs, Telcos partnerships, category marketing, trade marketing.

  • Business and Marketing Officer

    2008 - 2011

    Marketing and operations : drove overall performance and cloud transformation across commercial and consumer businesses for Microsoft in France. Led Microsoft's France move to new HQ in Issy-Les-Moulineaux. Contributed to Microsoft France's, first and so far only, best large business area of the world award within Microsoft.

  • Director of Platform & Ecosystem Division

    2005 - 2008

    Developer ecosystem at Microsoft France. Assembled a world class team of technical and developer evangelists who launched the first successful Microsoft program for startups (IDEES, which later morphed into global Bizspark), led the creation of the Microsoft Research and Inria joint research center in France, created Techdays (which quickly became the largest Microsoft tech event in Europe) and pionneered engagement with the broad open source developer community.

  • Director of Business Development

    2003 - 2005

    Business development : lead the overall Microsoft France transformation project and helped secure funding for strategic activities in following years (HQ move to Paris, research and education partnerships, startups/developers programs).

  • Sales Director - Telecom & Media Sector

    2000 - 2003

  • Account Executive - Vivendi

    1998 - 2000

1989 - 1996

  • Product Manager - Developer Tools

    1994 - 1996

  • Product Manager - Windows NT

    1992 - 1994

  • Program Manager - SQL Server R&D Team

    1991 - 1992

  • Product Localization Manager

    1990 - 1991

  • Product Localization Associate

    1989 - 1990

1988 - 1989

  • Software Developer Internship

    1988 - 1989

    Le Lisp, X Window, Ilog Aida, graphs visualization

  • Founder & President

    1988 - 1989

    Founded Jetai and organized the first edition in Toulouse while student at Enseeiht.

1987 - 1988

  • President

    1987 - 1988

    President of Enseeiht engineering school Junior Entreprise