Hi. I'm a creative product leader passionate about building services that help people become better versions of themselves.
Paris (21 years) → London (4) → Tokyo (12) → Paris (6) → Berlin (3) → Geneva
Honda R&D → Nokia → AQ → Snips.ai → SONOS → Dadditude.app → HelloBetter.de
SIDE HUSTLES
2017~present: Furniture design
In my spare time, I design home furniture. Most recently, a large modular low table for families to live and eat around.
2004~2021: Art event platform in Japan
Co-founded Tokyo Art Beat, the leading iOS app and platform covering the Tokyo Art and Design scene, tracking 500 events each month in English and Japanese. We ran it as a financially self-sustainable non-profit organization until 2021 when it joined Startbahn.jp for a next chapter.
2017: Tchok.in financial literacy chatbot
Alpha-launched (then closed) a fintech chatbot promoting financial literacy in low income populations with spending analysis, weekly budget routines and savings targets.
2013: PetitRocket Mission to Mars, iOS App
Launched an app for young kids, powered by gyroscopic steering and accelerometer handling to help them dream of traveling through space to Mars. Illustrations and music by friends.
It was beta-tested by a few real NASA astronauts!
2012~present: Hooked On catalog
Each month since 2012, I document newly purchased gear, books, movies or music I’ve enjoyed, creating a record of my evolving taste and habits.
2004: Location-based gaming
Talked with Wired Mag about my passion for location-based games and my beta testing of Mogi, Item Hunt, the first GPS-enabled mobile phone game, launched in Japan by Mathieu Castelli. These days, you’ll find me on Pokemon Go.
2003: First International Moblogging Conference
Co-organised a Mobile Tech Conference in Tokyo sponsored by Sony and NTT Docomo, marking the start of the era of posting photos and other media content from mobile devices.
ABOUT ME
I'm a creative product leader passionate about building meaningful experiences for people everywhere. I've spent 20+ years in multicultural environments, at the crossroads of people, business and engineering. I love building teams that grow with our customers.
Currently leading a team of great PMs at HelloBetter.de, a startup among the world’s leading providers of online mental health courses, fusing therapy and technology under the new banner of Digital Therapeutics (DTx).
Recently, I built Dadditude.app, a selfcare app giving dads a path to be more reflective, confident and productive in their family life. Before that, at SONOS, I built new products & services to add great sound to people's lives. This followed their acquisition of Snips.ai, a fast growing AI ML startup working on offline voice recognition where I was leading a team of talented PMs as Principal Product Manager. One of my major projects was helping Magic Leap launch voice control features on their AR glasses.
I started out in design in Paris and London, then focused on interaction design in Tokyo at Honda R&D and mobile research at Nokia, before co-founding and managing AQ, a 10-person digital products studio and growing our product management, service design and user research practice with clients including ASICS (launched and managed for 5 years a running training app on mobile and Watch apps), and Airbnb, Google, AccorHotels, Etsy, Mozilla and many others.
Specialties: Product Management, Team Management, Interaction Design, Service Design, Product Strategy, Business Development, User Experience.
♥︎
After-hours, I love to walk on my hands, draw with my son, climb rocks, plan my next road trip, and talk about art, movement, fatherhood, mental wellbeing, gymnastics, antiracism, enterprise design, augmented reality, multi-cultural families, mentorship, animé, eating less sugar, typography…
I donate monthly to these 4 great orgs: APF France Handicap, Signal Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Allsides