Team

Jacques is in charge of the TV & digital content practice dedicated to media and digital content.

During its 15 years’ experience in the Media sector, Jacques has become an expert of the media economics and of the impact of Internet on content. His assignments involve strategic and sector-specific examination of the television/video and its distribution modes, from broadcast to telecoms/IP. Jacques’s previous experience includes analyst for the Eurostaf/Les Echosgroup, market analyst for Ericsson.

Jacques holds a post-graduate research degree (DEA) in International Economics (Université Paris X) and a Master in Strategic Management of Innovation (Toulouse Graduate School of Management).

Vincent is in charge of regional digital development assignments, and particularly of drafting business plans for local authorities’ broadband and ultra-fast broadband rollout projects.

He takes part to the discussion with local authorities’ public initiative networks (public service delegation contracts (PSD), PPP, State-run initiatives, procurement) for major ultra-fast broadband public initiative network projects.

Vincent has a Master 2 degree from the IEP in Lyon in Public Sector Management: Local authorities and partner enterprises, specialising in public-private partnerships.

Philippe Baudouin heads the Smart Territories Practice

His main areas of involvement include:

• Providing local authorities and federal departments with assistance and strategic expertise for defining ICT public policies;
• Assistance in mounting innovative ICT projects with communities of specialised actors, such as education departments and local authorities;
• ICT project and programme assessment.

Philippe is also involved in European projects devoted to local and regional development issues, new ICT-enabled applications and the assessment of action plans, projects and programmes.

Philippe is a geographical economist, with an engineer’s degree in Regional Development from the Université de Lille 1/ENVAR.

Samuel is a consultant on Telecom strategies at IDATE. He is focused in the study of the evolution of new and existing technologies used by telecom operators in different regions around the world.

Before IDATE, Samuel has worked several years with European and American telecom players in the Latin American telecom market. He has been involved in the project management of telecom solutions through submarine and terrestrial cable networks. He has also worked analyzing innovation indexes in operators in UK and France and he has performed market research and benchmarking in the European and the African Market.

Samuel is a Computer Engineer from Simon Bolivar’s University at Caracas, Venezuela. He has a MBA degree from IESA and a degree of a Master of Sciences in Information and Telecommunications Technologies Business Management from Télécom  Ecole de Management in Evry, France.

After carrying out a Thesis on the potential of the Wimax Technology as a means of providing broadband access on the French consumer market, he specialized in the wireless industry, which he has been analyzing through the whole value chain, addressing both terrestrial and satellites networks. More recently, he has been focusing on new radio technologies, on the 5G standardization process, in-flight communication and the complementarity of cellular and satellite networks, especially in the context of new satellite projects, such as those in Low Earth Orbit.

He is graduated from Edhec Business School where he specialized in Marketing Management.

She is a specialist of microeconomic and econometric sciences. Her activity is focused on ICT behavior modeling and prospective analysis equipment. Her assignments focus primarily on market modelling, outlook and analysis. Anne is in charge of IDATE’s regular surveys of large and medium-size businesses concerning their telecom and IT equipment usage.

As the head of works conducted by the Université de Montpellier I, she has contributed to several reports that provided analysis of consumer behaviour, drawing on her dual specialisation in econometrics and microeconomics.

Ms. Causse holds a PhD in Economic Sciences from Montpellier’s Université de Sciences Economiques, where the title of her thesis was: The value of travel time, traffic modelling and forecasts, project assessment (1994-1998).

He participates to assignments and publications related to the Internet industry and on emerging technologies. His activities are especially focused on technological and marketing innovations. Bertrand is also in charge of developing IDATE DigiWorld participation to research and development collaboration projects (EU projects, H2020).

Prior to IDATE, Bertrand worked as European Project Manager at inno TSD, he has been involved in numerous R&D projects He was project coordinator of the FP7 BUTLER project focused on development of a secure and context aware Internet of Things. As such, he participated to the project research on ethics, privacy and data protection in a fully deployed Internet of Things. He developed the socio-economic impact assessment and user engagement methodologies of the H2020 FESTIVAL project on the federation of the Internet of Things experimentation platforms between Europe and Japan.

Bertrand has an Engineer degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. He also has an entrepreneur experience, as he spent 5 years as the COO and founder of a 3D simulation startup (SimplySim SAS), driving the company strategy for innovation, marketing and funding, until the buy-out of the company in 2011.

Ariane joined the Telecom Strategies department of IDATE in 2016. Her main focus is on market and operator services and investments in both Europe and Africa. She also assists the TV and Digital Services practice in analyzing audiovisual markets and telecommunications/media convergence operations.

She graduated from the Grande Ecole Program of HEC Paris in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Management, minoring in Management of the Media, Arts and Creative Industries. She also completed a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art at the Sorbonne (2013).

Julien Gaudemer joined lDATE in September 2011, working as an Telecom Technical Consultant.

His assignments primarily involve technical examination of the Internet access infrastructures (fixed and mobile, as well as core networks).

He notably works on studies dealing with FttH networks roll-out, especially Public Initative Networks, on economic and technical aspects. He also works on Internet services reports and studies.

Before coming to IDATE, Julien worked in the Network Division at the French operator Bouygues Telecom as a project manager intern, in Paris.

Mr. Gaudemer holds an Engineer Master degree in telecommunications at the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris (2011), and studied Management of Innovation at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Guillaume has been Director of Studies at IDATE since September 2007. His work focuses primarily on issues surrounding datacentres, and is current producing several strategic reports on the deployment of these infrastructures in a variety of locations.

Before joining IDATE, Guillaume worked as a senior consultant for ARCOME, chiefly on business-related issues. His core areas of expertise are:

• Operators and new technology service providers’ business: supply-side offers in France and around the world, analysis of the building blocks of operators’ and ISPs’ services;
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of telecom and IT issues;
• Product marketing/operational marketing: development and rollout of (fixed and mobile) calling, data and internet products;
• Project management: project development team management and coordination of cross-over working groups (marketing, technical, financial, sales, etc.);

Strategic analysis of telecom (calling, data, internet) and IT (open access, etc.) markets and products.

Antoine has been an IDATE DigiWorld consultant since 2014.

His main areas of focus are the economic and strategic issues surrounding TV and video distribution. Before joining IDATE DigiWorld, he worked for Canal+ and TF1.

Antoine holds an engineering degree from the École des Mines de Nantes and an MBA in Audiovisual Production from ESG.

Florence Le Borgne, Director of Studies, joined IDATE DigiWorld in July 1998.

Florence’s prime area of focus is the digitalization process in the TV and video industry (terrestrial, cable, satellite and IPTV, mobile TV, digital cinema, video and TV on the web) dealing with both the economic and strategic aspects of those sectors, at a macro and microeconomic level. More generally, her work involves analysis of media groups’ strategies. She works for private companies (broadcasters, telecom operators, manufacturers), French and foreign regulatory authorities and public bodies (CSA, CNC, Centre d’Analyse Stratégique, HADOPI, OFCOM), ministries (Industry, Culture), the European Commission and French regional authorities.

Florence is also a lecturer at the University of Montpellier I since 2010 where she teaches audiovisual economy.

Florence is a graduate of the Lille school of management EDHEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales).

A member of the IDATE team since November 2000, Sophie Lubrano is specialized in telecom operator commercial and Marketing strategies, and also in demand analysis (Use IT programme). Sophie carried out prospective studies in the Telecom sector, as well as market modeling and forecasting. Main topics: telecom operators strategies, Bundles strategies, pricing strategies, Internet services, innovation, e-commerce, m-payment, innovation, strategies, prospective, modeling, forecast. Prior to joining IDATE, Sophie was an economic consultant for B.I.P.E., where she was in charge of telecom market monitoring.

Mrs Lubrano is an economist, with a post-graduate degree from ESLSCA (Ecole Supérieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées).

An IDATE Senior Consultant since October 2000, Carole is in charge of monitoring the globe’s mobile markets, operator (networks, MVNO) and mobile services development particularly in LTE. She has also become an expert in spectrum management issues.

Carole holds a MS in marketing (EDHEC business school, Lille, 1991). She also holds a Masters in Human Resources and Corporate Management (ESCP, Paris business school, 1992).

He is responsible for studies on consumer electronics, digital home, video games, music and related phenomena: changing uses, new uses and devices, technology innovation, piracy, content protection and rights management. Laurent has developed expertise in the field of economic development and investment project engineering. He is also actually involved in studies conducted by IDATE for local authorities and their expression to define development strategies around ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and CCI (Cultural and Creative Industries).

He carries out techno-economic appraisals for innovation agencies and incubators on the issues of video gaming and multimedia content development. He participates in sector-based, market and strategic studies in the areas of ICT, television, Internet and video. He was the originator of Game Summit, which takes place during the Digiworld Summit in November each year (www.gamesummit.pro).

Laurent holds a Master’s degree in Economic and Financial Engineering.

Roland joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Principle Analyst.

Roland in his position of Director DigiWorld Institute UK is also responsible for the Think Tank activities of IDATE DigiWorld in the UK (nearly 60 companies’ members).

He is regular speaker in key events related to FTTH topics at an international level (FTTH Councils Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America, Africa and US, FTTH Forum, Broadband  World Forum, IIR, Informa & IQPC events, ETNO, CITI, Convergence India and IDATE DigiWorls Summit).

Roland is a Telecommunications Engineer (ENST Paris, 1994) and received a Master on Electronics (University Paris 6, 1994). He also worked for AT&T Bell laboratories (USA) as Engineer on DWDM Optical Networks and ATM technologies. He started his carrier in the France Telecom R&D labs working on optical communications.

Nicolas joined IDATE in 2010 where he is a senior consultant to our public sector customers. He specialises in defining strategies for local authorities in the areas of infrastructures, take-up and digital services.

Nicolas has acquired the expertise required for digital support projects in various areas of regional development (health, tourism solidarity, culture, economic development, transportation…). He has assisted a number of local authorities and partner organisations in designing and implementing online portals, mobile sites, collaborative tools and e-government procedures.

Nicolas has a DESS diploma in ICT in Regional Development (ICTDT) from the Université de Toulouse.

Pauline is consultant at IDATE since September 2016.

She is in charge of field surveys, literature reviews as part of the technical-economic studies related to the development of high and very high bandwidth infrastructure projects of local authorities. She is also involved in the missions and studies covering the Internet of things, and the new uses and facilities related to ICT.

Pauline has a PhD in Economics from the University of Montpellier. She has also completed several MOOC (Massive Open Online Racing) dealing with the digital culture and ICT during her training.

Soichi joined IDATE as a senior consultant in January 2009, and is currently the lead analyst of digital telcos.

His main area of expertise is the Internet services market, and in particular the “digital telco” perspective including the analyses of strategies employed by the various players, scenario building and forecasts. He covers a wide range of topics ranging from services (communication, social networks, video…), regulation (privacy, net neutrality, platform competition…) and business models (advertising and the use of personal data, paid solutions…) to name but few.

Soichi also has extensive experiences in speaking and presenting at conferences, such as at the OTT Forum, VoLTE Summit and the 5G World Event.

Soichi holds a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Christoph joined IDATE in 2008. He has extensive expertise in analysing regulatory matters of fixed and mobile markets. He has been in the lead for client studies for operators in Europe and Nothern Africa and has authored multiclient reports on NGA regulation and network outsourcing.

Christoph holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Didier has been with IDATE since April 1986.

In this capacity, Didier coordinates IDATE’s research and study assignements on telecom service market trends (mobile, broadband…), on the sector’s regulatory, technological and industrial issues (broadbank outlook, telecommunications investments and employment, European industry’s competitiveness…).

For more than 10 years, he has also been publishing supervisor of the annual DigiWorld Yearbook, dedicated to the digital world’s challenges.

Didier holds a post-gratuate degree from ESSEC (1982).

Frédéric Pujol joined IDATE in November 1992. Frédéric coordinates mobile industry forecasting and technical-economic analysis reports; he acquired solid experience in mobile network architecture.

Frédéric holds a post-graduate degree in engineering from ISEN (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique du Nord, Lille, 1986), where he majored in Telecommunications, and from CITCOM (Centre d’Ingénierie des Technologies de la Communication, Paris, 1987), where he majored in Network Architecture.

Tiana is a senior consultant at IDATE DigiWorld since 2005. She specifically follows carrier network infrastructure evolution with an expertise on SDN and network virtualization.She has lead major studies on those two disruptive concepts on behalf of private and public organizations. Her assignments also include the impact of the digital transformation on carrier business and on industries.

Tiana holds a post-graduate professional degree in Cable Networks, from the Université de Lille (France), and a Masters in Business Administration from the IAE de Bordeaux (France).

Samuel has been an IDATE DigiWorld Consultant since early 2007. His assignments involve specifically technologies expertise for IP technologies, online content distribution and delivery and content delivery networks or technical video compression technologies.

Samuel graduated from leading French engineering school the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Telecom Engineer diploma). He holds also a master degree in Physics of Université de Bretagne-Sud and also in Politics from Sciences-Po Rennes.

Hao joined IDATE DigiWorld as a consultant in 2015.

Her assignments focus on both technical and business research of emerging technologies, particularly in eHealth domain and Internet of things. Her expertise in IoT segments has been built through both in-house market research and consulting activities, covering connected healthcare, silver economy, and connected cars sectors. She also works on projects of digital transformation across verticals, including healthcare, retail and automobile.

Prior to this, Hao worked as a strategic analyst for Orange where her main areas of endeavour were the mobile payment and geo-location. She also became a qualified expert in medical devices certification at the Beijing Centre for Medical Device Quality Supervision and Testing of State Food and Drug Administration.

Hao holds a master degree in ICT Business Management from TELECOM Ecole de Management, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China.