Jacques Henno

Current

Kids' Online Safety Specialist at Henno.com
free-lance news reporter, author and lecturer focused on new technologies at Henno.com (Self-employed)

Past

Deputy editor at Prisma Presse
Consultant, specialized in recruitment and head-hunting at PA Consulting Group

Education

Stanford University
EDHEC Business School
Sainte Marie Grand lebrun

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Jacques Henno’s Summary

Senior journalist, writer, speaker focused on new technologies. My main fields of interest are "Technology and Privacy" (see http://www.tousfiches.com), "Children and New Technologies" (http://www.nosenfants.fr), "Green IT" (http://www.greentek.fr) and "Nuclear Proliferation" (http://www.atlasdunucleaire.com).
I write articles and books and give lectures about these 4 subjects.

Jacques Henno’s Specialties:

• interviewing (in French or English) ICT experts
• giving media interviews (in French or English) about "Technology and Privacy", "Children and New Technologies", "Green IT" and "Nuclear Proliferation". I have been interviewed by radio stations (Europe 1, RMC Info, France Inter…), TV (TF1, LCI, France 24…) and newspapers (Le Monde, Ouest-France, L'Express…)
• giving lectures (in French or English)

Jacques Henno’s Experience

Kids' Online Safety Specialist

Henno.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

One of the topics I cover with great interest is "children and the digital worlds".
In 2004, I published a book entitled "Children in front of the screens: pornography, the real violence".
In 2005, I was part of the French Government’s Interdepartmental Working group on Internet and Kids’ Safety,
In December 2006, I sent a letter to the 577 French MPs asking for a better protection of children online.
In January 2007, I gave a lecture before the Head of the French Department in charge of Youth and Sports: "Is there an impact of pornography on young people? ".
In June 2007, I submitted various proposals for a safer Internet to the European Commission.
In January 2008, I published a book entitled "The 90 questions all parents are asking themselves about mobile phones,the Internet, video games…".
In July 2008, I created a Linkedin group: http://www.kids-safety-in-the-digital-worlds.com.
I have given about 60 lectures on the theme of children and the new technologies.
free-lance news reporter, author and lecturer focused on new technologies
Henno.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

• writing of articles about new technologies for Les Echos (the leading business daily in France) and Vnunet.fr (one of the French leading websites about new technologies) (see http://www.henno.com/en.html)

• writing of books about "Children and New Technologies" (how to protect them from inappropriate contents while surfing, how to use the Internet to educate them…; see http://www.nosenfants.fr) and "New technologies and Privacy (see http://livretousfiches.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ENGLISHVERSION)

• Lectures about "Children and New Technologies" and "New technologies and Privacy". Audience : parents, schoolboys, secondary school students, senior citizens…
Deputy editor

Prisma Presse

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

February 1992 — March 2003 (11 years 2 months)

I have occupied 4 different positions with Prisma-Presse:
• 03/2000-03/2003: deputy editor of Web Magazine, the leading French monthly magazine dedicated to the internet and multimedia, with an audience of more than one million readers on average per issue.

• 1994-2000: news reporter, in charge of a department of Capital, the leading monthly business magazine in France, with a paid circulation of 410,000 copies per month. Responsibilities included:
- management of 5 news reporters
- planning, rewriting and editing of cover stories requiring up to 2 months of preparation. Performance: 390,000 to 470,000 copies sold.
- interview of American and Japanese businessmen: Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Andy Grove (Intel), Michael Dell (Dell computers), Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of the Mario video games, published by Nintendo)…

• 1993-1994: news reporter, in charge of the "Management" section of Capital.

• 1992-1993: news reporter, Capital.
Consultant, specialized in recruitment and head-hunting

PA Consulting Group

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

April 1990 — January 1992 (1 year 10 months)

Consultant, specialized in recruitment and head-hunting.PA Consulting is an English consulting firm operating worldwide.
Prospected human resources directors and selected candidates. For example, I recruited the manufacturing director of Larousse, a leading French publishing companies.

Jacques Henno’s Education

Stanford University

SPPC , Publishing , 2003 — 2003
EDHEC Business School

Edhec Grande Ecole , Marketing , 1982 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

Aiesec, EDHEC Junior Etudes -formerly known as CMS
Sainte Marie Grand lebrun

Prepa HEC (Prep course training undergraduate students for enrollment in a French Business School) , Training for enrollment in a French Business School , 1980 — 1982
Sainte Marie Grand lebrun

Baccalauréat, France's national secondary-school (lycée) diploma , Série scientifique (S) The S stream prepares students for work in scientific fields , 1973 — 1980