Frédéric Filloux, 52, is currently the general manager of the ePresse digital consortium in France that brought together five majors dailies and three newsweeklies. The main objective of the consortium is to build a digital kiosk (web and mobile apps), that will allow the French press to sell its content, while retaining control over pricing, marketing and customer data. ePresse is also working on deals with Orange, Google, Bing, Ligatus, HP, etc.
He created the Monday Note in 2007, first as an internal newsletter for Schibsted’s management (see below). Jean-Louis Gassée joined the Monday Note in 2008. The Monday Note has 5500 direct subscribers, 6000 RSS subscribers and get about 10,000 visits per week on its website.
From 2007 until 2010, Frédéric Filloux was a working as an editor for the international division of the Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA. In 2002, he was part of the managing team who launched the free daily 20 Minutes that became the most read newspaper in France with more than 3m readers (the online version, 20minutes.fr, has about 300,000 visitors per day). Prior to that, he spent 12 years at Liberation, successively as a business reporter, New York correspondent, editor of the multimedia section, manager of online operations, and finally, editor of the paper (The rejection by the staff of a redesign of the paper and a reorganization plan led to his resignation).
Among other things, he’s also a contributing professor at the Sciences-Po School of Journalism and occasionally writes features stories for Le Monde Magazine.
He also has an experience in the advertising business after a one-year stop at the Paris group BDDP agency (now TBWA). He is a graduate from the Bordeaux school of Journalism. He lives in Paris.
(For futher details, see this PDF file : CV Frederic Filloux 2011 -)
Jean-Louis Gassée is currently general partner at the venture capital firm Allegis Capital since 2003. In late 1990, he founded Be, Inc., a multi-media system software company, took it to the Nasdaq in 1999 and sold it to Palm in 2001. Jean-Louis started Apple France in 1981, moved to Cupertino, California in 1985 and became president of the Apple Products Division, covering worldwide product development, manufacturing and product marketing. He has served as a director of publicly traded companies such as Cray Computer Corporation, 3Com and Logitech. He currently sits on the Board of Directors’ of Electronics for Imaging and was until late 2005 Chairman of PalmSource. He is a Mathematics and Physics graduate of Paris (Orsay). He lives in Palo Alto, California.
