Meet our Management Team
- JB Rudelle, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
- Greg Coleman, President
- Franck Le Ouay, Chief Scientist and Co-founder
- Romain Niccoli, Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder
- Pascal Gauthier, Chief Operating Officer
- Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer
JB Rudelle, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
JB is a serial entrepreneur with a combination of tech and business experience. In particular, he was the founder and CEO of K-Mobile Kiwee. Throughout the 2000s, this company rapidly became one of the leaders in the emerging mobile content market, before being acquired by American Greetings Interactive in 2004. Prior to that, JB held various senior consulting positions for Roland Berger and Arthur D. Little. He started his career as an engineer for Philips and Lucent.
Greg Coleman, President
Greg Coleman has held executive positions within many of the world’s most influential technology companies. He was formerly the president and chief revenue officer at the Huffington Post and the EVP of global sales at Yahoo. He also served as President of Platform-A at AOL from February to April of 2009. Coleman was previously senior vice president of Reader’s Digest Association and president of U.S. Magazine Publishing. Previously, at CBS, Inc., he spent 10 years leading advertising efforts for Woman’s Day as vice president and national sales manager. Coleman holds a B.S. degree in business administration from Georgetown University and attended the M.B.A. program at New York University.
Franck Le Ouay, Chief Scientist and Co-founder
Franck is the conceptual brain behind our predictive tool. He is widely recognised as an expert in scalable complex algorithms. He started his career as a software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. He designed the graphics engine of popular console games and took part in the launch of the Microsoft Research Lab in Germany. Franck Le Ouay holds a master's degree in Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France.
Romain Niccoli, Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder
Romain is responsible for all our web architecture and development. Previously, he held several positions at Microsoft, Redmond, USA, including the management and leadership of large teams of software engineers. Romain Niccoli holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France.
Pascal Gauthier, Chief Operating Officer
With 10 years of experience in the digital media and advertising world, Pascal has built and managed teams in a number of successful European start-ups including Kelkoo, ultimately acquired by Yahoo. In February 2008, Pascal was recruited by Criteo as COO and Head of Europe. As COO, today Pascal oversees the global product roadmap, the sales strategy and European operations.
Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer
Jonathan runs the buy-side for Criteo globally, including media buying, publisher relationships, and the buy-side product roadmap. Before joining Criteo in early 2009, Jonathan was at Yahoo where he spent his last 18 months running the restructuring and then ultimately the sale of Kelkoo, Europe's leading price comparison business. Prior to this he was head of corporate development in Europe for Yahoo, where his responsibilities included Yahoo's entry into the European display ad network business. Jonathan previously worked at Atlas Venture and Boston Consulting Group and studied at Oxford University and then Harvard.
