Benoit Pothier

Benoit Pothier has a diverse work experience in various industries. Benoit currently works as the Chief Technology Officer at Kiliba, where they lead a technical team in developing and operating a machine learning-based solution for automating marketing campaigns. Prior to this, Benoit worked at Novaquark, the Metaverse Company, where they held multiple roles including General Manager France, Head of Data, COO, Co-founder, and Head of Data. Benoit was responsible for leading and growing the French branch of the company, managing live operations, setting up the data stack, and developing a marketing strategy. Benoit also has experience as a Co-founder and President of The Cantillon, a role in which they worked for a year.

Benoit'sprevious roles include Strategic Marketing Director at Aldebaran Robotics - Softbank group, where they conducted strategic studies and managed software programs. Benoit also served as COO and R&D Lead at Gostai, where they launched an innovative mobile service robot and managed various R&D projects. Benoit began their career as an R&D Software Engineer at ATA, where they worked on embedded programming and automatic dispatching solutions. Benoit also worked as a Software Engineer in the infrastructure and Linux team at Alcatel-Lucent, managing projects and developing software components.

Prior to their professional career, Benoit completed an internship at SAGEM. Benoit also served as a Computer and Information Systems Manager during their military service at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique.

Benoit Pothier has an extensive education history. Benoit received their Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and computer science from INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon in 1999. After that, they pursued further studies and attended Concordia University from 1998 to 1999, focusing on Electrical Engineering and computer science.

In 2010, Benoit attended INSEAD and completed an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA). Benoit obtained additional certifications in various subjects. In 2017, they received a certification in Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods from the University of Washington. In the same year, they also acquired a certification in Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms from the same university.

Benoit expanded their knowledge in 2022 by obtaining certifications from different institutions. Benoit completed a course on Distributed Computing with Spark SQL from the University of California, Davis. Additionally, they pursued studies in Machine Learning at Stanford University and obtained a certification. Finally, they completed a course on Customer Analytics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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