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Benoit Rigaut |
| Printemps.com |
| CTO |
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| IT Manager |
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102, rue de Provence
Paris, A8 75009
France
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+33(0)612930096 Home
+33(0)142824463 Work
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Benoit Rigaut
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| SSC: F18 or JSG (?) |
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 Profile
Benoît Rigaut was born in 1971 in France. After studying science in Paris, he graduated in 1995 with a Master in Applied Mathematics and Computing Science from the engineering school ENSEEIHT in Toulouse France.
He encountered the web at its early days in 1994, and decided to follow closely what he envisionned as a technological and sociological breakthrough. It was also the opportunity to mix his strong knowledge in science with his interest in the cultural and economic field.
In 1996, he worked at CERN (european laboratory for particule physics) in Geneva, a multicultural place and the birth place of the web. The right timing to take the Java programming language at its infancy and becoming one of the happy few of the web computing at the time.
Back in Paris in 1997 he participated as one of the first employees of one of the first French web startups, MultiMania. With a couple of early days web programmers, the team built in a hurry a successful community web site. He experienced the challenges posed by scalability, security and the general hosting side of any large web project. The company made an acclaimed IPO in 2000.
Back in Paris in 1997, he became one of the first employees of MultiMania, the French startup that made an acclaimed IPO in 2000. Part of handful team of web programmers pionneers, he contributed to the creation in only a few months of a successful community web site. He faced the challenges posed by high-scalability, security and more generally the problemes of any "million of unique visitors" web project.
He was hired in 2000 by GrandVision, the parent company of the two leading brands of the French photofinishing business, PhotoStation and PhotoService. As a CTO of the newly formed digital photography division, he worked in close relation with the brands' top management, and designed a technological and business continuity from the old world to the digital market.
Since 2001, he is the CTO of the web division of the French department store Printemps. He created its technological web platform on the newly born Microsoft .Net technology. His main project was to re-invent the wedding wish list system, to create a click and mortar service opening its business to partnerships on the web and with two hundred retail points of Fnac and Conforama. He is currently involved in the strategy definition of pushing Printemps into the e-commerce, capitalizing on the errors made by others, and future guessing the winning trends of the e-business.
He is immersed in the web globalized culture and tracks new concepts at their roots. His interest spans between the marketing understanding of what makes a viral video so hype, to the deep web technological arcanes of next week's killer application, and to a broader view of the field envisionning the future, of the so called semantic web, that will dwarf the first phase of the web revolution.
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