Marcel DRIDJE

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"Marcel Bruno Dridje, a British Citizen and INSEAD graduate, is today active as an international advisor to Startup Ecosystems in the EMEA region. Marcel wears different hats that allows him today to have a 360 view on what it takes to build a healthy and strong incubation / acceleration / investments programs. Marcel holds different positions as an active investor by being in the leadership of these initiatives: Sophia Business Angels, President Emeritus / European Business Angels Network, Board Member / Mediterranean Business Angels Network, Co-founder / Maghreb Diaspora Business Angel, Co-founder / EuropIA Capital, Board Member. A seasoned European Sales Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT and Telecom startups in the US and EMEA. Marcel has a broad range of experience in all aspects of sales, marketing, communication and management with direct experience with Fortune 500 enterprises (IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, EMC, ALU) and startups (Quantum, Andrew Networks, Pluris, Corvis, Ascend and Airespace). During the course of his career he has held VP roles most notably as VP EMEA Corvis (first all optical router) where he grew the team and business to an outstanding success with a Nasdaq IPO. Marcel launched his career after completing a BSC in Electronics and Computer Science from Portsmouth Polytechnic UK. He walked away from his first position with IBM UK as an Applications Engineer greatly relieved to embark on a career in sales. Bi-Lingual in French and English with a working knowledge of Arabic, Spanish, Italian and German. Three major highlights from his career include helping Airespace to be the #2 WLAN in EMEA market share and positioned Cisco to be #1 WLAN vendor worldwide. He has helped start promoting Cisco VCE alliance (VMware, EMC, Cisco) and the BMC OEM relationship to Kick Start their first SP IaaS Cloud offering on a worldwide basis. He also pioneered the French ISP Internet business while leading Ascend’s insertion into FT/Orange first ISP business to include ISDNET, OLEANE and Internetway. Marcel left a Director position at CISCO Systems to start his new venture as a Startup Ecosystem advisor and a Business Angel to help startups with International Business development and helping incubators and accelerators with growing and sustaining their programs overseas. A self-proclaimed advisor & Intrapreneur, Marcel loves new Challenges in sharing his 20 years of Tech and Startup experience to empower startup support organisations such as incubators, accelerators and open innovation programs to thrive internationally. Currently he is giving Master Classes for both Junior and Senior BA associations across EMEA, including the ‘Investment Readiness’ workshops for startups and leading major advisory initiatives with European Incubators, Accelerators and venture studios to scale up their programs."

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