Pascale Vicat-Blanc

Founder and CEO

Pascale Vicat-Blanc co-founded Lyatiss in 2010 and brings more than 20 years of R&D experience on network and Cloud computing technologies. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Pascale Vicat-Blanc was Research Director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science), CIO of a Grid 5000 Data Center, Team Leader at INRIA-Bell Labs and Project Manager with the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Pascale holds a MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lyon.

She was recently inducted into the National Order of the Legion of Honor for her 20 years of research.

T.M. Ravi

Board Member

T.M. Ravi is co-founder of The Hive, a studio that works with entrepreneurs to create companies and applications that leverage Big Data. Ravi has a successful track record as a serial entrepreneur and operational executive. Most recently, Ravi was Chief Marketing Officer for Iron Mountain, a provider of information management services. Ravi joined Iron Mountain through the acquisition of Mimosa Systems, the leader in enterprise content archiving, where he was founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Before Mimosa, Ravi has been founder of Peakstone and Media Blitz and held top management positions at Computer Associates (CA) and Cheyenne Software. Ravi earned a MS and PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and a Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.

Guillaume Lautour

Partner at Idinvest Partners

Guillaume Lautour is an enthusiastic supporter of young companies built on product innovation. For the last 13 years at Idinvest Partners, he has led investments in 30 startups in Cloud computing, Telecommunications, Gaming and Consumer Internet. Guillaume currently sits on the boards of Deezer, TravelHorizon, IFeelGoods, Kobojo, Pretty Simple, eRepublik, Grand Cru, Ezakus, Wimo, Celsius X VI II and Mentum. His other investments include: Steek, Travelprice, Telisma, Fluxus, Dailymotion, Criteo and Questico.

Prior to joining Idinvest Partners, Guillaume Lautour developed for 2 years a practice in Industrial Project Management in Beijing, China and worked for 5 years in technology investment banking in Paris and New York. He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering, Economics and Actuarial Studies and started his career as an option trader.

Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

Board Member

Currently, the CEO of TalentCircles, a Cloud-based candidate engagement and management platform, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis is a Silicon Valley executive and serial entrepreneur. A graduate from l’Ecole Normale Supérieure in France (philosophy), she started her entrepreneurial career in France, as the founder of ACI (now 4th Dimension) and launched the first bestselling relational database (4th Dimension) on the Apple Macintosh in 1986. She was one of the first European women to start a company in the Silicon Valley where she co-founded ACIUS with Guy Kawasaki in 1987. She later became the CEO of Exemplary Software (a spin off from HPLabs), a lean supply chain management system (acquired by Persistent Systems in 2005) and Brixlogic, a platform for the native implementation of XML Schemas (acquired by Diebold in 2006).

Throughout her career, Marylene has assisted about thirty young companies as a shadow CEO, board member, investor, advisor, M&A facilitator or management consultant, including Atomz (acquired by WebSideStory/Omniture), CitizenLogistics (maker of Groundcrew), Instavia or Objective Marketer (acquired by EmailVision in 2011) to name of few. Marylene has translated books by Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Hugh McLeod into French for French entrepreneurs, as well as written prefaces for these books. She is also a Silicon Valley contributor for Atlantico and has her own blog, Grade A Entrepreneurs.