Vincent TAUZIA
Electrical Engineering graduate from INSA Lyon with MBA from INSEAD. Currently working as CEO & co-founder of CogniK
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.cognik.net |
| Skills: | Business, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, French, Italian, Languages, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Public speaking, Spanish |
| Location: | Lyon, France |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | connected tv, edutainment, home shopping, iptv, recommender, vod |
| Schools: | INSEAD Business School, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon |
FEATURED STARTUP
CogniK
CogniK
CogniK provides content discovery solutions for media companies, one audience at a time. Content discovery is essentials across all connected screens to ensure true "lean-back" experience and optimal monetization of existing content resources.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | CogniK, France |
| Position: | CEO & co-founder |
| Time period: | September 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Innovative recommender systems targeted at each audience type and usage
• Developed partnerships with content providers, telcos and consumer electronics manufacturers • Led a team of high-caliber scientists and marketers to design the most innovative profiling and recommendation engine based on cognitive research |
| Employer: | Philips Consumer Lifestyle, Netherlands |
| Position: | Director, Strategy & Business Development |
| Time period: | January 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | Consumer electronics and domestic appliances
• Identified and prioritized key strategic initiatives across all businesses, including active management of innovation programs and M&A scans • Took lead role in drafting, refining and deploying a 3-year turn-around plan for a € 1.5bln business unit. Proactively identified key trends, competitive landscape and emerging changes in industry, communicated the implications to the organization • Actively engaged with video content partners in Europe and US to build compelling business case for internet TV. Obtained top management buy-in for a € 10m investment • Provided C-level executives with strategic insight, analytical rigor and financial assessment of M&A opportunities, and post-integration capabilities. Specifically responsible for the seed-funding of a $ 4.5m venture and for the acquisitive approach of a major accessories company worth $ 1.2bln |
| Employer: | The Boston Consulting Group, France |
| Position: | Summer Consultant |
| Time period: | July 2006 - August 2006 |
| Description: | Participated in the definition of the growth strategy of a major European glass manufacturer |
| Employer: | Xing.com |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Defined the inorganic options for accelerated growth in Europe |
| Employer: | STMicroelectronics |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | January 1997 - December 2005 |
| Description: | #1 semiconductor supplier in Europe with a vast portfolio of differentiated innovative products
Marketing and Application Manager Turkey • Set-up from scratch and ran a software development centre in Istanbul. Initial investment worth € 2m. Obtained 50% funding from local authorities • Selected, hired and managed 40+ highly-skilled engineers. Reviewed their performance, set career goals and coached them • Supervised multiple large-scale projects across Europe, Middle-East & Asia for new high-definition digital receivers for the US market. Total yearly budget under supervision was over € 7m • Launched new contracting & pricing policies for firmwares bundled with chips, resulting in wider market adoption. 95% of customers signed the license agreement before starting production • Collaborated closely to the due diligence and the set-up of a joint venture in Shanghai Marketing Manager France • Established contractual partnerships worth € 300k+ in total, with small agile companies offering key technologies in the field of embedded systems and television • Successfully defined and marketed software products for home entertainment, bundled with new generations of chipsets. Contributed in sales of about € 120m • Worked with VP of an international consumer electronics company to build an industry-wide software exchange system Project Leader France • Led a 4-people team on a € 300k interactive television platform project • Awarded ST's Gold Team Award for CMM certification (development quality process) • Assisted customers in Europe and Asia in their product development and production ramp-up Application Engineer Italy • Supported customers in Italy, UK, Germany and Spain |
EDUCATION
| University: | INSEAD Business School |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2006 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon |
| Time period: | 1992 - 1997 |
| Degree: | Electronics, MEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | 1998 - 2001 4 international patents registered
US2002093589, US6545720, US2002012067, EP1096464 |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Outdoor sports (skiing, mountain biking, sailing, surfing)
Tennis Traveling (visited over 30 different countries) |
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CogniK
CogniK provides content discovery solutions for media companies, one audience at a time. Content discovery is essentials across all connected screens to ensure true "lean-back" experience and optimal monetization of existing content resources.
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Wigadoo
Wigadoo is a consumer facing website in the travel and leisure space. Wigadoo targets the pain of organising a group of friends when money is involved, whether it's booking a ski chalet or a night at the theatre.