Nicolas Brusson is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlaBlaCar, a leading community-based travel network that connects over 100 million members in 22 markets to share rides and travel affordably. Brusson has also taken on roles as COO and Co-Founder of Synthesia and as an investor in several companies, including Mistral AI, Dust, Unobravo, moka.care, Sequence, Helsing, HomeExchange, and cirplus. Educationally, Brusson holds an M.B.A. in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy from INSEAD, a Project Management Certificate from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master's in Engineering and Optics from Ecole Superieure d'Optique, and a PhD qualifier in Optoelectronics from Paris-Sud University.