Team

• André May - CEO

  A graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (1983) and Ensimag (1984), André May joins Comelog Technologies Nouvelles as a development engineer and director of a profit center. In 1989 he joined a fast-growing group Decan at the time of its creation (listed on stock exchange in 1994) as regional director of new business: networks, network monitoring, artificial intelligence, ... In 1995, André co-founded Soft Mountain, which develops communications products based on the new Java language; Versant (Nasdaq) acquired it in 1998 to complement its software offering. In 1997, he co-founded TriNova that invests in technology companies with strong growth, and then in 2000 TriNova Gestion that manages TriNova II (€ 18M fund); several companies have been listed on a stock exchange. In parallel, André co-founded in May 2008, BioVert Gestion and Holding Verte continuing to invest in renewable energy.

• Jean Delahousse - Founder

  Jean graduated from the ESCP school of management. He worked for Andersen Consulting, Paris Stock Exchange and Diagram, a publisher of financial software. He created a company BDB Participation in 1993, that was later sold to Linedata. Jean founded MONDECA in 1999.

  Jean is an expert in semantic web, ontologies, and content management. He has a substantial experience in the design and launch of large software applications, as well as in implementation of semantic technologies for large international clients. Jean also supervised doctoral student internships at Mondeca and is actively involved in the technological community through participation in scientific committees and events related to semantic technologies and standards.

• Gilles Delaporte - Sales manager

  Gilles joined Mondeca in 2004 to help the company grow its business development and sales activity. He graduated from ESCP in 1991. Gilles has been involved in Mondeca’s strategic sales activities: business development, sales strategy and implementation, marketing, etc.

  Gilles has a passion for new technologies and in particular for knowledge management, in which he has gained extensive experience (portals, search engine, EDMS, Text Mining, Semantic Web). He coordinates Mondeca’s sales activity and partner networks and promotes Mondeca’s development in the Web 3.0 market.

• François Thibault - Head of international sales

  François Thibault is a trained linguist and technical translator, with over 15 years experience in client-facing positions working for American and Canadian-based companies, most of it gained in the Globalization, Text Mining and Enterprise Content Management industries. His roles involved both senior operational and sales responsibilities in a context of value-added solutions and services selling to global accounts in Europe and North America.

  François joined Mondeca in 2009 as the Business Development Director in charge of expanding Mondeca's reach on international markets.

• Benoit Carcenac - Head Consultant

  Benoit received advanced training in computer science and dedicated the first 15 years of his career in project management, consulting, and management operations for the financial software companies and banks. He then participated in the creation of Mondeca in 1999 as a co-founder.
  Benoit conceived and launched the company's flagship product - ITM - before taking the direction of the consulting team. He put in place the processes of analysis, deployment and complex integration of solutions to Mondeca customers. He is responsible for problem-solving in the daily activities of the integration team as well as the final customer satisfaction.

• Bernard Vatant - Knowledge Engineering Consultant

  Graduated from the Ecole Normale de l’Enseignement Technique (ENSET) in 1975, Bernard Vatant has taught mathematics in France’s Education Nationale from 1975 to 1997. He further refocused his activity towards new technologies of knowledge representation, publication and sharing.
  At the end of year 2000, he joined the Mondeca team as a consultant in the domain of ontologies and knowledge representation languages. His experience in modelling and data migration has built up since that date, thanks to the diversity of Mondeca’s customers and projects, of which scope encompass domains as various as scientific and medical terminologies, tourism and local government, or legal publication.

  Bernard Vatant has been the representative for Mondeca in several working groups or standard bodies such as ISO (ISO 13250 Topic Maps standard, and current working groups about future ISO 25964 standard on Thesauri), or W3C (OWL, SKOS). He has chaired from 2001 to 2003 the OASIS Technical Committee on « Published Subjects ».

  He’s a known actor of the research on commercial use of Semantic Web technologies, and as such is a regular participant in Program Committees of dedicated conferences either in France, such as IC (Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances) or abroad, such as LDOW (Linked Data on the Web), and has been a guest speaker to workshops organized by organizations such as INRIA in France or ISKO in UK.

  His expertise is acknowledged in particular in the domain of modelling, migration and interoperability of legacy reference vocabularies, and in this respect has worked with institutions such as the Publications Office of the European Union (EUROVOC vocabulary), or the French national Library (BNF) in the framework of the Europeana project (evolution and integration of RAMEAU vocabulary).

  His blog is here .

• Thomas Francart - Technical director

  Thomas graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in Computer Science, and has done part of his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He completed an internship in the Laboratory Tech-Cico University of Technology of Troyes, and joined Mondeca in 2003 as a software developer, and later became its technical director.

  He participated in all phases of the ITM software development, and has a complete knowledge of all aspects of the product : modelling, scalability, deployment, packaging, as well as integration with third-party tools such as text-mining, search engines, or RDF databases. He has extensive experience in the implementation of standards-based semantic technologies.

  Thomas participates as a technical expert in numerous R&D and commercial projects of the company. He also gives courses in Java/J2EE and acts as a speaker at the UTC, the Paris Telecom Institute, and the University of Paris 10.

• Florence Amardeilh - Head of R&D

  After working as a research engineer in the area of knowledge management, Florence obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Paris 10 sponsored by Mondeca. In her Ph.D. research she worked with the Mondeca team to build software for semi-automatic ontology population and semantic annotation using a combination of the Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web techniques. After graduation in 2007, Florence became Mondeca’s head of R&D.

  In collaboration with commercial and academic partners, Florence has been involved in launch, management, and implementation of numerous research projects financed by the European Commission (IST FP5 - MOSES, IST-FP6 - TAO) and the French government (ANR Eiffel, ANR Tecsan VigiTermes, ANR Tecsan InterSTIS, RNTL TerraNumerica, FUI SAMAR, ANR CSOSG SAIMSI). These projects allow Mondeca to be at the forefront of innovation in its sector.

  Florence also gives lectures on Information Retrieval and Extraction, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Modelling at the University of Paris 4 (Sorbonne, CELSA), the University of Paris 10, and the National Telecommunications Institute.

• Laurent Bégin - Senior consultant

  Originally trained in Optical Engineering, Laurent recently graduated with a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a specialist in Semantic Web technologies. Previous to joining Mondeca in 2008 Laurent held various positions in technical sales and product marketing in France and in the US.
  Laurent is a Senior Consultant and has responsibility for managing and coordinating complex knowledge management projects at Mondeca.

• Alexander Polonsky - Marketing manager

  Alexander is an experienced IT professional with expertise both in R&D and marketing. He has founded and led a software company Cognium Systems, that developed an XML-based CMS for experimental researchers and a system for viral content distribution. Alexander also consulted companies in social marketing strategies. Alexander obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Stanford University, USA.

  Alexander joined Mondeca in 2010 to contribute to company's marketing strategy and manage marketing projects.

• François Rouzé - Consultant for the culture and tourism sector

  François started his career in the areas of architectural heritage (historic buildings and complex structures) and urban development. He subsequently became interested in e-tourism at the time of its emergence.
  François participated in numerous R&D and commercial projects in the culture and tourism sector. Since 2005 François has been in charge of Mondeca’s business development in this sector.

• Lise Rozat - Consultant in knowledge modelling

  Lise graduated in 2009 from a multidisciplinary Masters program in Documentation, Computer Science and Linguistics of the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense. Lise is a part of Mondeca’s vocabulary engineering team where her role is two-fold:
  • as an ontologist, she is involved in the creation of customized ontologies for clients (using Swoop or Protégé) as well as the migration of legacy data to new ontologies (using XSLT or SPARQL transformation languages).
  • she is also responsible for managing product documentation.

  In addition, Lise has managed the DAFOE Cultural Legacy research project that employed linguistic analysis tools (TreeTagger, Yatea) and software for vocabulary/ontology construction from text (Terminae, DAFOE platform).

• Hacène Cherfi - Consultant

  Hacene obtained his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from University Henri Poincare of Nancy (France) in 2004. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position in 2005 at UQO University in Ottawa (Canada) and managed an R&D project at INRIA.

  Hacene has joined Mondeca in September 2009. At Mondeca, he manages R&D projects SAMAR and SAIMSI (the Semantic Web for Arabic language) and ASIP (extracting useful information from patient records for Emergency health care), as well as commercial projects for bioMérieux Laboratories and Adicap.

  Hacene is actively involved in the academic research community through organizing workshops and participating in evaluation committees.

• Anh Huynh - R&D engineer

  Anh obtained a degree in Computer Science from UTC (University of Technology of Compiègne) with a specialization in knowledge engineering. She joined Mondeca in 2005 as an R&D engineer.
  Anh is responsible for specification, implementation, and integration of software components of Mondeca's flagship product, ITM. She leads a development team and collaborates with project managers to define project scope and tasks.

• Olivier Carloni - R&D engineer

  Olivier obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Montpellier in 2008 with a sponsorship by Mondeca. His thesis focused on adding reasoning capabilities to Mondeca’s ITM using graph theory.

  Since joining Mondeca as a researcher, he has worked on the reasoning engine for ITM, a generic reasoning architecture for managing various reasoning engines, and an interoperability component for logic-based language translations that preserve semantics.

  Olivier was involved in R&D projects related to reasoning such as Eiffel (promotion of tourism resources) and PressIndex (media monitoring) and commercial projects such as Bureau Veritas (inference of regulation applicability in the naval domain), Eurovoc (thesaurus management), and EDF (inference of advice for energy consumers).

• Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche - R&D engineer

  Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Paris 6 with a sponsorship by Mondeca. His research is in the following areas: application of semantic web technologies for structured vocabularies, integration of heterogeneous vocabularies, ontology engineering methodology such as Ontology Design Patterns.

  He is currently leading a commercial terminology integration project for Paris hospitals (Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris). He is also leading a research project named “InterSTIS” on the same subject matter. In addition, he is a consultant for several commercial projects. He has also set up an applied research group “ Mondeca Labs ” which tests and promotes software experiments.

  At the same time, he teaches software development and semantic web technologies University of Paris 13.

• Martin Coste - R&D engineer

  Martin obtained a degree in Computer Science from the UTC (University of Technology of Compiègne) with a specialization in digital content and knowledge representation. He joined Mondeca 2008 as a R&D engineer.
  Martin participates in several commercial and research projects developing innovative semantic web technologies. In particular, he is involved in improving the integration of components used for semantic annotation of documents.

• Charles Teissèdre - R&D engineer

  Charles obtained a Masters in Computer Science, Linguistics and Knowledge Management from Paris Sorbonne University. Since 2009 he has been conducting Ph.D. research at the University of Paris (Ouest Nanterre-La Défense) with a sponsorship by Mondeca. His research project deals with temporal data management in the Semantic Web context : temporal modelling and processing (extraction and annotation in texts, transforming textual temporal data to structured information, reasoning) as well as querying of temporal information in knowledge bases (temporal filters).

• Karthik Aluru

  Karthik joined Mondeca in 2010 to work as a development engineer. He graduated with Masters degree from the University of Paris-Sud XI specializing in Artificial Intelligence in 2009. Before joining Mondeca he worked at IRIT and DERI labs and has experience in the field of semantic technologies. He works mainly on the development of various aspects of ITM and client applications. He also participates in R&D projects and works on the development of research tools and  platforms.

• Albane de Carrara - R&D engineer

  Albane obtained a degree in Computer Science from UTC (Université de Technology de Compiègne), with a specialization in digital content and knowledge representation. He joined Mondeca 2009 as a R&D engineer.
  Albane is involved in the development of knowledge management and representation interfaces. He develops the server side and coordinates development of the client side. He is particularly involved in the development of an editor for inference, modification, and validation rules.

• Gilles Grandon - R&D engineer

  Gilles is a trained multimedia web developer, with strong experience in web applications integration in the field of semantic web systems. He joined Mondeca in 2000, as a Senior Web Developer in charge of projects mostly related to XML data migration, transformation, and publication.

  Gilles contributes both to commercial projects as well as R&D initiatives to develop customized applications (e.g., design and development of an HTML rendering tool allowing to display a SKOS file with various options).

• Laurence Noël - Interaction designer

  With a degree in NLP (Natural Language Processing / Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Hypermedia (Paris 8 University), Laurence joined Mondeca in 2005 to work on the design of interface systems making use of semantic web data.

  Laurence takes part in the creation of applications enabling to edit semantic relationships between data (rule manager, ontology editor, etc.), all as well as in the development of large audience web portals which offer advanced exploratory search functionnalities thanks to the establishment of those semantic relationships. She works both on research and client projects, and collaborates with the marketing team to develop the company print&web communication.

  Laurence also gives lectures in interaction design and pursues her research about multimodal communication, prototyping processes and the designers' reflexive practice,

• Soheila Selami - Administrative assistant

  Soheila obtained a bachelor's degree in law at Teheran university. She then worked as a legal adviser for a national petrochemical company in Iran. She was in charge of organizing the general assemblies all as well as ratifying and applying the statements within the company subsidiaries.

  She has been working for Mondeca since June 2009, and she is now in charge of the administration service. Soheila speaks English, and French fluently, all as well as Persian, her native language.