Jean-Marie Slove

Jean-Marie Slove founded Alena Systems LLC in 2002 after spending 18 years in IT and Telecom. Alena Systems has carried out many successful business development projects, both for overseas companies starting their business in the US and for US companies. His company later expanded its portfolio of services to include Business web-based systems (CRM, CMS, Voice), and it is now more specifically focused on Social Media.

Jean-Marie Slove is a strong advocate of innovative business paradigms made possible by many new and easy-to-access instruments -- such as social media, open-source software, crowdsourcing -- that are enabling companies to profoundly reshape the way they do sales, marketing, recruiting, outsourcing, brand awareness, and more.

Jean-Marie Slove has been a pioneer in the new telecom era. As a Director with Sligos (now Atos-Origin) in France, he was a responsible for 3 major France Telecom IT projects while the company was starting the then-new GSM cell phone service, which is now ubiquitous around the world. Later, Jean-Marie Slove successfully developed global IP business for UUNET (the first commercial Internet service provider ) and WorldCom, through various marketing initiatives. Jean-Marie is a graduate of ESME in France, a well-recognized engineering school focused on electronics and computer science (equivalent to Master degree in the US). He was awarded a Quality Assurance Certification by Crosby Total Quality Management College.