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One year ago today, Criteo opened up trading <\/a>and raised more than $200 Million in its Nasdaq IPO<\/a>. Since then, the company has made several acquisitions – Tedemis<\/a>, Ad-X<\/a> (just before the IPO), \u00a0AdQuantic<\/a>\u00a0– and has faced\u00a0some Ups and Downs on Wall Street<\/a>. There was a rumor\u00a0of a Publicis acquisition<\/a> which died down, and now earlier this week ComScore announced that Criteo was touching nearly 1 Billion users per month<\/a>.<\/p>\n There have also been many changes within the team, which is entirely normal for a technology company.\u00a0It requires a different set of skills to pilot a public company than to build a private one.<\/p>\n What got Paris excited about Criteo’s IPO was the idea that the wealth generated by the VCs and Key Executives involved would trickle down, multiply within the ecosystem, and create the next generation of startups.<\/p>\n Before we talk about who’s left, let’s look at who’s still around:<\/p>\n Without further ado – let’s see where the key team are today (their title at Criteo at the time of the IPO in parantheses).<\/p>\n Franck le Ouay<\/strong> (Chief Scientist & Co-founder<\/strong>) – I last ran into Franck at the\u00a0fall edition of the Paris Founders Event<\/a>, where he seemed quite happy and relaxed. It turns out, earlier this month, Franck left Criteo (along with Romain Nicolli, Franck was one of the original co-founders, starting out in 2005), and is working on a new project, which we’ll likely here more about at the January edition of #PFE.<\/p>\n Greg Coleman (President)<\/strong> – the resident American on the executive team, Coleman’s\u00a0previous role at AOL was essential when he was brought on board at Criteo’s NY office to help pilot the IPO. Today, Coleman’s jumped ship as President of\u00a0Buzzfeed<\/a>, the media outlet which recently raised $50 Million<\/a>\u00a0to scale\u00a0its sponsored content technology – I’m sure Coleman’s experience at Criteo will play a key role here.<\/p>\n Pascal Gauthier<\/strong> (COO<\/strong>) – Pascal Gauthier has also left Criteo, and is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at Index Ventures.\u00a0Among other roles, he’s an advisor for\u00a0Teads, a video AdTech company which has billed itself as the next Criteo<\/a>. Gauthier is also working on a few projects of his own, one of which is aptly named “Challenger Deep.” He’s been joined by former Developer lead\u00a0Vincent de Lagabbe as CTO & co-founder.<\/p>\n In addition to\u00a0these key players, we’re also seeing other high-level team members launching new companies, like\u00a0Maxime Agostini, who launched AlephD<\/a>, which raised \u20ac2 Million from Partech International last November.<\/p>\n Formerly VP of Engineering at Criteo,\u00a0Julien Simon<\/strong> since went on to be CTO at Aldebaran Robotics, but has jumped ship to Viadeo as of this month as their new CTO.<\/p>\n Nicolas Messelet (Product Manager, Publishing Platform)<\/strong> has gone on to be a Product Manager for Ezakus, the pre-targetting\u00a0advertising company<\/a>\u00a0which has\u00a0raised nearly \u20ac5 Million to date.<\/p>\n Benoit Portoleau (Head of Central Sales)<\/strong>\u00a0has gone on to\u00a0become\u00a0co-founder & COO at Alkemics<\/a>, a startup leveraging big data to deliver valuable product data to the FMCG (Fast-moving consumer goods) market.<\/p>\n Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Clement (Product & Marketing Manager)\u00a0<\/strong>has gone on to become Partnership Director at Lengow.<\/p>\n Tristan Croiset (Senior Software Engineer)\u00a0<\/strong>has moved on and co-founded Karos<\/a><\/p>\n Ugo Jardonnet (R&D Engineer)\u00a0<\/strong>has gone on to head up the Paris office for Placemeter<\/a>, one of NYC’s hottest French startups<\/a><\/p>\n Tom Triscari (Director, Publisher Marketplace & Business Intelligence)\u00a0<\/strong>is now CEO of\u00a0Yieldr<\/a>, a solution for programmatic advertisers.<\/p>\n There are undoubtedly handfuls of other Criteo team members who have gone on to do other great things in the startup world:\u00a0launching new companies, bringing their experience to a new company, investing in new companies. It’s only been 12 months since the IPO, and I imagine that when it’s been 5 years, we’ll have a more complete picture of the impact that Criteo has had on the European Tech Scene.<\/p>\n\n
Beyond the Executive Team…<\/h4>\n
…and so many more<\/h4>\n