Frederic Dumeny

Current

VP Business Development at Adfonic Ltd
MD & Founder at Fast>>Forward
Senior Advisor (non-exec) at Smart-Equity

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Past

Head of Sales & Business Development Europe at Motricity
Director / France & Spain at Infospace Mobile
Mobile operators relationships at Buongiorno France & MENA

Director of B2B & Alliances at K-Mobile / Kiwee.com / American Greetings
Manager at Fnac Telecom / The Phone House
Owner & CEO at InterActive

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Education

Sciences Po / Laws / Computing

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500+ connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

Frederic Dumeny’s Summary

I'm currently the Vice President of Business Development at Adfonic, a self-service mobile advertising platform.
I'm also the Managing Director and Founder of Fast>>Forward, a business development consultancy serving the European Mobile Internet market.
We're europeanizing Mobile Internet services.

Until May 2009, I was the Head of Sales and Business Development in Europe for Motricity, a mobile content solution provider

Since founding my first Internet company more than 15 years ago, I have been involved in every new forms of web innovation.

My interests in the last 10 years led me to the mobile internet market in Europe. I've been launching business, concluding & managing partnerships between content providers, platform suppliers, telcos & medias, building & managing sales teams in the Mobile Internet European market for small fast-moving startups as well as for large international companies

I live in Paris where I'm a co-founder of the Mobile Monday & spend most of my time in airports witnessing and participating in the mobile innovation.

Frederic Dumeny’s Specialties:

Sales & Business Development
Go-To-Market Strategy
Market Analysis
Trend-Watching
Strategic Alliances
Team building
Sales consultancy
Contract negotiations

Frederic Dumeny’s Experience

VP Business Development

Adfonic Ltd

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2009 — Present (7 months)

Adfonic's purpose is simple - connecting advertisers with their audience and helping publishers maximise their earning potential. With the most advanced and comprehensive tools in the industry, we give our users the flexibility and control they need to achieve these objectives.

Founded in October 2008 by a core group of mobile marketing and technology experts, the Adfonic team works out of London, Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area
MD & Founder

Fast>>Forward

(Wireless industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Fast>>Forward helps Internet companies to understand, explore & conquer the European market
Senior Advisor (non-exec)

Smart-Equity

(Financial Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Smart-Equity is a private equity & investing company.
I'm a Senior Advisor in charge of the Mobile Internet area
Head of Sales & Business Development Europe

Motricity

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

January 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Since the acquisition of Infospace Mobile by Motricity, I'm in charge of launching & developing Motricity's business in Europe
Motricity allows people everywhere to enjoy the independence and productivity of a Mobile Lifestyle — no matter when or where — through the access, delivery and control of mobile content.
Motricity's value proposition includes Mobile Portal technology, Mobile Search & Storefronts
Most major mobile carriers in the world are among our customers, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile.
Director / France & Spain

Infospace Mobile

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; INSP; Wireless industry)

March 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Managing Sales in France & Spain for Infospace Europe.
Infospace is a leading wireless company providing Search & Discovery solutions for Mobile Operators, from mobile search to full mobile portals.
Infospace Mobile has been acquired by Motricity end of 2007
Mobile operators relationships

Buongiorno France & MENA

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

May 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Media partnerships, mobile operators partnership & service supply, business development / new products
Building, marketing & selling new products to telcos.
Director of B2B & Alliances

K-Mobile / Kiwee.com / American Greetings

(Wireless industry)

April 2000 — May 2004 (4 years 2 months)

Kiwee.com has been market pioneer & leader in mobile content.
As a Director of Sales & B2B, I had to build partnerships with telcos, medias, portals, device manufacturers.
Manager

Fnac Telecom / The Phone House

(Consumer Services industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

In charge of building a new stores network from finding places to establish stores to catalog building, team hiring & management
Owner & CEO

InterActive

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )

Early Internet company
providing websites for major Bordeaux Wine Chateaux
runing first secured payment service on the french internet