An experienced management team

A pioneer of the French Internet, Michel Meyer co-founded MultiMania SA, a French-language leader in website hosting, with Olivier Heckmann in 1995. As CEO, he orchestrated its growth and oversaw successive fund-raising campaigns from 1996 to 1999 (Sofinnova Partners, Intel Capital, PAI, etc.), the company’s introduction to the ‘New Market’ at the Paris Stock Exchange in March 2000, and then the sale of MultiMania to Lycos Europe (Bertelsmann group) for 220 million euros. Subsequently CEO of Lycos France until 2002, he managed a 280-strong team and the successful merger and restructuring of four companies. In 2003, he and Olivier Heckmann founded Kewego.

Olivier Heckmann is the General Director and co-founder of Kewego. He is also recognised as a pioneer of the Internet in France. In 1995, he co-founded MultiMania SA and following its sale in 2001 became Managing Director of Products at Lycos Europe. In this role, he deployed fee-based Internet hosting services in eight European countries, supported by an international team of 110 people. He led Lycos Hosting to becoming a European leader in its field (one billion pages viewed per month) and the primary source of direct revenues for Lycos Europe, which had 100,000 customers.

Geoff Allan is Chief Financial Officer at Kewego. An international law graduate from universities in Paris and London, he has held various senior financial management positions, both for technology and Internet companies like eDevice and in the media sector, working with André Rousselet, who founded Canal+. Prior to Kewego, Geoff Allan worked in mergers and acquisitions, notably for Chase Manhattan Bank.

Hervé has banked over 10 years experience in the new technologies and Internet sectors. He was E-Commerce manager at Multimania and, following its sale to Lycos Europe, handled Lycos’ e-Commerce activities in France. He then joined Boonty as its European Sales Director, making it a European leader of white-label video games platforms. Hervé Browne came to Kewego in 2005 as Director of Business and Development and is in charge of expanding Kewego's growing number of partnerships.

With a doctorate in IT engineering, Sylvère Bruneaux is a specialist in audiovisual communication systems. A keen interest in display technologies early on in his career led him to designing one of the first real-time animation systems used by editing and television professionals worldwide. Hot on the heels of his initial experience, he co-founded Tedisys in Grenoble in 1995, providing the audiovisual communication sector with innovative solutions tailored to emerging markets, corporate communications, advertising and dynamic signage. Since Tedisys was bought out by Kewego in October 2005, Sylvère has been managing the Grenoble-based technical team.

In August 2000, Emmanuel Biscay launched the Spanish subsidiary of French company Netgem, a specialist in technological solutions for interactive television. The strength of this experience and that acquired at Expansion, Bayard Presse and Zeta in Spain as Marketing, Sales and Distribution Director led Emmanuel Biscay to joining Kewego in November 2006 as Executive Director to oversee Kewego’s growth in Spain.