Jérôme Lécat
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| 🏳️ Nationality | French |
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| 👩 Spouse(s) | Anna Lecat |
Jerome Lecat is a French entrepreneur, CEO and founder of a Information technology, data storage global company Scality based in San Francisco, California.[1][2][3]
Early Life & Career[edit]
Lecat studied engineering at one of the top engineering schools in France ENPC. He also hold's a research master’s degree in Cognitive Science from Paris Diderot University. After completing his education he joined a job in the stock market. He built automatic stock picking models during the job.[4]
1994 to 2003[edit]
In 1994, together with Olivier Dauchot and Olivier Lemarié, Jerome founded Internet-Way, an ISP focused on the enterprise market. Internet-Way was the France’s second-largest business at that time; three years later it was sold to UUNET for 20 times the invested capital.[5]
In 2001, Jerome became Chairman of the Board of Data Center Technology (DCT), a Belgium based start-up which developed a unique Content Addressable Storage (CAS) technology, especially for the backup market. In 2003, he founded Bizanga, an email Message transfer agent for service providers.[6]
2009 to Present[edit]
He sold Bizanga to Cloudmark in 2010 with a profit of 400 percent on the venture capital. Jerome and his colleagues Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King founded Scality in 2009.[7][8][9] Jerome supported En Marche and Macron presidential campaign since April 2016.[10][11]
In November 2011 Jerome unveiled a private Cloud Storage for capacity larger than 100 TB significantly cheaper than public Cloud Storage.[12]
Jerome joined open stack summit 2015 in Vancouver, Canada.[13]
Philanthrophy[edit]
Jerome lives in Mill Valley with his wife Anna who is also an entrepreneur.[14] Together Anna and Jérôme created the Sugar Foundation to support artists, teachers, and entrepreneurs.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Jérôme Lecat, Founder Scality". Frenchyentrepreneur (in français). 25 June 2014.
- ↑ "Ma recette d'entrepreneur par Jérôme Lecat (Scality) | Bpifrance servir l'avenir". www.bpifrance.fr (in français).
- ↑ "Jérôme Lecat (Scality) : « Un système "scalable" s'améliore quand il grandit »". Magazine-decideurs.com (in français). Decideurs.
- ↑ Rogers, Bruce. "Jerome Lecat's Scality Aims To Be Agent Of Change In $100 Billion Storage Industry". Forbes.
- ↑ "Jérôme Lecat, Scality". www.journaldunet.com (in français).
- ↑ "Jerome Lecat: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com.
- ↑ "Scality funding approaches escape velocity". The Register.
- ↑ "Jérôme Lecat, Scality". VentureBeat.
- ↑ "MeetTheCEO: Scality's Jerome Lecat". StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland. 4 May 2016.
- ↑ "Entrepreneur Français dans la Silicon Valley depuis 10 ans, je soutiens Emmanuel Macron". Le Huffington Post (in français). 18 April 2017.
- ↑ "Les Français peuvent réussir dans la Silicon Valley". FIGARO (in français). 8 June 2016.
- ↑ "Scality CEO, Jérôme Lecat: For capacity larger than 100TB, Private Cloud Storage is significantly cheaper than Public Cloud Storage". Global Security Mag Online.
- ↑ /humans.txt, see. "Confreaks TV | Presenter Jerome Lecat". confreaks.tv.
- ↑ "Anna Lecat". Les Lunes.
- ↑ "Jérôme Lecat". www.fondationdefrance.org (in français).
External links[edit]
- Jerome Lecat on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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