Brice Le Blevennec

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Born (1967-09-23) September 23, 1967 (age 56)
Versailles, France
NationalityFrance
EducationAthénée Adolphe Max (1980–1988)
La Cambre (1988–1989)
Occupation
  • Entrepreneur
  • Investor
  • Founder
  • Author
Notable work
  • Co-founder, chairman, CEO and CVO of Emakina Group
  • Co-founder of Ex Machina[1]
  • Co-founder of ContactOffice
  • fr[2]
  • Co-founder of Tunz[3]
  • Co-founder of P2P Foundation[4]
  • Co-founder of Zin.gl[5]
  • Co-founder of Objekten Systems[6]
  • Author of Visions of a better world[7][8]
  • Patents for Electronic payment method for electronic purse[9]
RelativesFrançois Le Blevennec, father
Danielle Chauvin, mother[10]
AwardsIAB MIXX Lifetime Achievement Award (2007),[11] IAB MIXX Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)[12]

Brice Le Blevennec (born September 23, 1967 in Versailles 78000, France[13]) is a French entrepreneur, investor, thought leader, futurist and author. He co-founded Ex Machina, Emakina Group, ContactOffice|fr, Tunz, P2P Foundation, Zin.gl, and Objekten Systems.

Background and education

Brice was born to parents Danielle Chauvin and François Le Blevennec.[10] His father worked as a NATO official from 1966 to 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.[14]

Brice studied at the Athénée Adolphe Max, Brussels 1980–1988. In 1982 he participated in a writing workshop where his texts got published in a book.[15]He has spent a year studying typography and graphism at La Cambre, school of visual arts.

Business career

Early career

In 1991, at age 23, Brice founded the company Ex Machina,[1] specialising in graphic design and multimedia application development. One of Ex Machina first projects was the 1996 Le mystère Magritte, [16] featuring a compilation of René Magritte’s well-known artworks.

From 1996 to 2004, Brice ran a weekly radio show that became a TV show CyberCafé,[17] broadcast on RTBF.

In 1998, Brice Le Blevennec, Patrick De Schutter, and Arnaud Huret founded ContactOffice|fr.[2][18] ContactOffice|fr’s encrypted email service Mailfence is an email encryption service that offers OpenPGP-based end-to-end encryption and digital signatures.

Emakina Group

Emakina Group was founded in 2001 as a merger of company Ex Machina, founded by Brice, and an e-business agency Emalaya founded by Denis Steisel in 1998.[19] At the time of the merger, the new company counted 35 employees.[20] By 2021, Emakina Group employee count grew to 1100, with company presence spreading across Central and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and North America. At that time, Brice Le Blevennec was a chairperson and CEO.

In August 2021, Brice confirmed the voluntary takeover bid on Emakina Group filed by EPAM Systems.[21][13] In 2022, Brice stopped being the CEO of Emakina Group and remained as the CVO.[22]

Other business endeavours

After obtaining the grant for the patent they applied for,[9] Brice Le Blevennec, Gregoire de Streel, Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen, and other investors founded Tunz in 2007.[3] Tunz was an e-money institution developing mobile payment solutions. Brice suggested that the Tunz SMS mobile payment service built based on the patent would make it possible to buy a digital asset as a player in World of Warcraft, Second Life, or to pay for a PS3 video game.[23] Tunz got acquired by Ogone in 2012,[24] and Ingenico acquired Ogone a year later.

In 2007, Brice Le Blevennec, Michel Bauwens and James Burke founded the P2P Foundation.[4]

In 2011, Brice co-founded an online dating service Zin.gl.[5] The company has raised $600,000 from angel investors, including Fred Destin from Atlas Venture.

The same year, Brice co-founded Objekten Systems,[6] a company offering high quality furniture made in Europe.

Latest business endeavours

In 2023, Brice launched a new project Zoetrope, an AI-powered digital art frame.[25][26][27][28]

The same year, as a member of the Belgian angel investor network BeAngels, Brice has invested in Satochip, a start-up providing secure hardware solutions for cryptocurrency and digital asset storage, management and exchange.

Patents

In 2006, Brice Le Blevennec, Gregoire de Streel, and Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen got the patent application grant for the electronic payment system for electronic purses. The method involved receiving an electronic message containing financial transaction instructions accompanied by an identification code of the user's terminal via an electronic message server. The electronic purse associated with the identification code of the terminal could then be searched in a database.[9]

Publications

In 2021, Brice published the book Visions of a better world.[7][8] The book has the contributions of approximately 50 experts from the Emakina Group and takes a scientific approach to predict what the world will look like in 2051.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Brice Le Blevennec Net Worth". Wallmine. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About ContactOffice Group". Archived from the original on 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boris Jancen (2009). " "Tunz Story". digimedia.be (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 P2P Foundation Wiki "Founders". wiki.p2pfoundation.net. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Zin.gl Mines Social Network Data To Help Singles Find Their Perfect Match". Techcrunch. 2011. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Arnold Delaroche (2018). "Objekten Systems ou le design belge à la conquête de l'Europe". lecho.be (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Brice Le Blévennec (2021). "Visions of a better world (EN); The first book of applied science fiction... or how science can turn a vision into reality". lannoo.be. Retrieved 2022-11-13. EAN:9782390251873, Publisher:RACINE
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Brice Le Blévennec (2021). "Visions d'un monde meilleur (FR); Le premier ouvrage de science-fiction appliquée ou comment la science peut faire de nos visions une réalité". lannoo.be. Retrieved 2022-11-13. EAN:9782390251880, Publisher:RACINE
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Brice Le Blévennec, Gregoire de Streel, Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen (2006) "Electronic payment method for electronic purse, involves receiving message including data representing transaction instruction and accompanied with terminal identification code, via server, and searching purse associated to code in database". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2022-11-13. Patent Grant Number: 1016964, Patent Publication Number: BE-1016964-A3, Patent Application Number: BE-200600050-A, CPC Class: G06
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Michel Jay. "Michel Jay's family tree; M François Le Blévennec". gw.geneanet.org. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  11. ↑ Henk de Hooge (2007). "MIXX Achievement Awards". Dutch Cowboys. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  12. ↑ "De winnaars van de MIXX Awards 2009 zijn gekend!". digimedia.be (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Brice Le Blévennec, geek depuis les prémices de la tech". L'Echo. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  14. ↑ François Le Blévennec (2007). "History : The big move". NATO. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  15. ↑ Atelier d'écriture 1982–1983 / Jacques Cels "Textes, nouvelles, récits de Yves Berteau, Carine Cassayas, Christian Clément, Brice Le Blevennec, Isabelle Lecomte" (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-11 – via aml-cfwb.be.
  16. ↑ Ex Machina, Pierre Sterckx, Michel Bries, Pierre Sterckx, Michel Bries, Jean-Philippe Duboscq, Alain Deboisieux, Christian Cahet, Catherine Conet, Jacques Vialat (1996) "Le mystère Magritte [Ressource électronique]". catalogue.bnf.fr (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  17. ↑ "La RTBF sucre CyberCafé". Le Vif (in français). 2004. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  18. ↑ Patrick van Campenhout (2007). "Le rêve américain de ContactOffice". La Libre (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
  19. ↑ "Denis Steisel Net Worth". Wallmine. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  20. ↑ Collar, Charlotte (2015). "Brice Le Blevennec, le digital avant l'heure". Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  21. ↑ "EPAM Acquires Emakina Group, Bringing New Lines of High-Performance Marketing & Creative Services to EMEA Markets". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  22. ↑ Olivier Mouton (2022). "Brice Le Blévennec, "Chief visionary officer" d'Emakina: "Nous pouvons construire un monde meilleur"". trends.levif.be (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  23. ↑ Laurent Redondo Sanchez (2007). "Brice Le Blevennec voit tunz.com changer le monde". bemobile.be (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  24. ↑ Angela Sormani (2012). "Ogone Acquires Tunz". pehub.com. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  25. ↑ "Zoetrope, Official Website". zoetrope.be. 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  26. ↑ Arnaud Martin (2023). "Brice Le Blévennec installe l'art version intelligence artificielle dans le salon". lecho.be (in français). Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  27. ↑ "Un tableau d'art intelligent piloté par IA". kikk.be (in français). 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  28. ↑ "Smart Art Frame powered by AI". kikk.be. 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-11.

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