Experience

Chocolate Chip Cookie Company

• France
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, CEO

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Etienne is in charge of the business development, fundraising and the global strategy for C4. He is laser-focused on cementing distribution and strategic partnerships to accelerate the product’s global distribution and the company’s growth. Etienne is responsible for managing C4’s relationship with external partners including marketing, logistics and distribution partners. Originally, he was the creative lead of the project and oversaw mechanical design for the Ohm’s Quest console. He imagined the UX and the product’s form-factor for the original concept. Together with Allison, he came up with puzzles and stories as well as developing the initial prototype. Working hand-in-hand with a digital marketing agency, he helped lead Ohm’s Quest to a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign ($250K+ raised) in June 2022. Beforehand, Etienne raised public and private funding to make this campaign possible. Etienne had additional entrepreneurial coaching while this project was incubated at Wacano (in partnership with StartThe****Up). Ohm's Quest, C4’s first product, is the world's first Escape Room console. Mixing elements of video games and board-games, Ohm’s Quest offers players exciting audio-first adventures in which they must solve puzzles using the console’s interfaces to progress in the game. With screen-free, educational and inter-generational adventures, players dive into a wide range of eras and locations across time. Adventures can be replayed and new stories can be added after the initial console purchase. Show less



aMazingCube

• France

• CEO

  • Dec 2016 - Oct 2021

  Etienne prepared the business plan, financial models and investigated strategic partners for a team-building product (aMazingCube). He imagined and developed the concept for a unique product aimed at company gatherings. He was responsible for coming up with the design, 3D modeling and 3D printing the pieces and deciding which hardware interfaces to integrate into the prototype. Development of the aMazingCube console spurred IoT contracts as well as B2B team-building contracts. He also prepared quotes and cemented agreements for contracts to develop custom IoT solutions for B2B clients in parallel with this project’s development. He underwent an intense entreprenurial training programme while this project was incubated at the SQYCUB (in partnership with IncubAlliance). The aMazingCube is a cubic-shaped box that unfolds on a table and contains hidden compartiments that open as the players progress in the game. The gameplay follows an audio story in which players must use a wide variety of tactile hardware interfaces – illuminated buttons, keybads, switches, cables, etc. - to collaboratively solve puzzles and win the game before the time runs out. Much like an Escape Room experience, the playtime is limited to 60 minutes and players can request hints via a dedicated interface. The aMazingCube concept was pivoted, simplified and reimagined into a B2C product – Ohm’s Quest. Show less



3scale

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Development Representative

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

  Sales & Events• Sold the product through email, cold-calling and events to inbound and outbound prospects• Organized Proof of Concept demos with sales engineers• Lead commercial negotiation for self-service accounts• Managed conference calls with prospects including: overview of the company, product presentation and demonstration• Demoed the product at API events and conferences in French, Spanish and EnglishContent Creation• Produced internal industry-targeted, market research reports• Published subset of results in the form of a blog post series on 3scale.net/blog• Prepared email drip campaigns in English, targeted at the banking industry• Contacted target employees using the automation tool Marketo Show less

• Data Analyst

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

  Data Analysis• Debugged and formatted financial data by coding scripts to utilize existing Python libraries• Coded Python algorithm to determine column data type• Uploaded data sets to SQL server using a Python connector• Manipulated tables using SQL to get the right views with joins, windowing functions and pivot functions• Integrated results within PeriscopeData.com and set up filters such as time granularity (day, week, month)Internal Data Enrichment• Utilized web-scraping technologies such as Kimono labs, Import.io and Web-scraper for Chrome• Created spiders using Scrapy and BeautifulSoup Python libraries• Correlated scrapped information with internal company data to compile customer information Show less



Nanocloud Software

• France
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategy Consultant

  • Aug 2013 - Nov 2013

  Worked autonomously to enhance apwise business plan which helped to raise €7 million • Acquired professional strategic thinking by defining: a vision, a marketing-mix and a billing policy • Understood the difficulty of segmenting clients and customers Worked autonomously to enhance apwise business plan which helped to raise €7 million • Acquired professional strategic thinking by defining: a vision, a marketing-mix and a billing policy • Understood the difficulty of segmenting clients and customers



Working Holiday Visa

• New Zealand

• Various jobs

  • Aug 2011 - Apr 2012

  • Waiter at Kaoru Lodge, Wellington, New Zealand • Waiter at Icon Catering, Wellington, New Zealand • Fruit picking and other farm jobs • Waiter at Kaoru Lodge, Wellington, New Zealand • Waiter at Icon Catering, Wellington, New Zealand • Fruit picking and other farm jobs



Laboratoire de Génétique et de Biologie Cellulaire (LGBC)

• Région de Versailles, France

• Stagiaire

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  • Lead an entire protocol over fly’s DNA; setting the experiment parameter, analyzing the results and proposing improvements. • Lead an entire protocol over fly’s DNA; setting the experiment parameter, analyzing the results and proposing improvements.