Jean-François Paccini

Jean-François Paccini has a strong work experience spanning over several companies and industries.

Jean-François started their career at FranceNet in 1994, where they served as the Director Technique, overseeing the management and growth of the company's internet infrastructure. Jean-François worked on implementing new services and increasing capacity during the early days of internet adoption.

In 1999, Paccini joined UUnet as an Operations Manager, responsible for managing the backbone UUnet in France. Jean-François handled capacity planning and the deployment of bandwidth links.

Paccini then joined Egencia in 2000 as the CTO, playing a key role in the creation of the company's platform. Jean-François identified technologies, managed vendor selection, and built a complete technical platform integrating the website, midoffice, and billing systems. Jean-François was involved in various migration projects.

From 2004 to 2008, Paccini held the position of CTO at Egencia and continued to oversee product development and internal IT operations while the company experienced international growth.

Jean-François then joined PagesJaunes in 2009 as the Directeur Technique Internet. Paccini introduced new methods inspired by web giants such as A/B testing and feature teams. Jean-François also led the technology integration as part of Solocal's Digital 2015 transformation program.

In 2015, Paccini became the CTO at FASTBOOKING, a subsidiary of AccorHotels. Jean-François accelerated the company's transition to cloud computing, with 95% of systems running on AWS. Jean-François also focused on training engineers on advanced technologies and implementing auto-scaling architectures to optimize costs.

In 2018, Paccini joined AccorHotels as the SVP IT Operations, responsible for overseeing IT operations within the company.

Most recently, Paccini joined DeepReach in 2019 as the CTO. Jean-François recruited and built a team of remote developers, structured the team using feature teams, and focused on creating and managing multi-channel advertising campaigns for agencies and clients.

Throughout their career, Paccini has demonstrated expertise in technology, product development, team management, and driving digital transformation.

Jean-François Paccini obtained a PhD in Computer Science/Networking from the University of Geneva from 1988 to 1994. Prior to that, they earned a Maîtrise in Computer science from Université de Caen Normandie from 1984 to 1988. In addition to their formal education, they also earned a Brevet Pilote privé - VFR certification from DGAC in July 2008.