Thierry Sergent - Chief Executive Officer

Thierry Sergent, 51, has a Master degree from a French Engineer school (ENSTA). He started his career as Financial Controller at Philips, founded a Consultant company dedicated to IT solutions, bought, through an LBO, an industrial company, developed and sold this company to Dover (NYSE listed Holding Company), then invested in various companies and gave them some support. Among them were BestOfMedia, a now leading Internet Publisher focused on technologies, and Expway.

Claude Seyrat - VP Marketing and Strategy and Co-founder

Claude, an EXPWAY co-founder, has extensive experience in multimedia content distribution and management. He was Chairman and Editor of several television standards committees dedicated to MPEG, TV-Anytime and DVB. He led the deployment of the first DVB-H Electronic Service Guide System in the world, in Italy.
Claude is in charge of Strategy and Marketing at EXPWAY, where he works closely with operators, content owners and manufacturers to design new services for their end-users.
Claude holds a Ph.D. in Multimedia Content Search and Indexing from University of Paris.

Cedric Thienot - Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Paris IV, specializing in pseudo-intuitionistic logic and knowledge representation, Cedric joined the multimedia indexing team at University of Paris VI. He directed the MPEG-7 research program for two years, making extensive contributions to the MPEG-7 Description Definition Language (DDL) from the initial stages. Cedric was involved in the MPEG-7 system groups, where he contributed to the development of the binary format of MPEG-7 (BiM).
Cedric also holds a Computer Science Engineer's degree from Ecole Centrale in Lyon, France.

Stephanie Manfrini - Chief Financial Officer

Before joining Expway in 2002, Stephanie was a Senior Consultant at ARTHUR ANDERSEN, specializing in risk consulting for financial services. She began her career at the ALLIANZ insurance company, where she held various positions in financial control, both at the corporate level and in specialized insurance branches (transportation). She also played an active role in reorganizing the processes, IT systems and reporting methods for the Marine & Aviation business during the critical merger of AGF, PFA and ALLIANZ.
Stephanie holds a BA from the Grenoble Management School and an MBA in Audit and Management Control from the Management Institute of Paris.

Eric Theron - Chief Operating Officer

Eric has spent more than 20 years in the Telecom and Media industry, heading a number of large business units.
He began his career in 1985 at SCHLUMBERGER, co-founded DIGITEC S.A. and later joined MATRA HAUTE TECHNOLOGIE, where he managed the Advanced Image Processing units in a number of French and European programs. In 1995, he created L.H.P.C. (Laboratory for High Performance Computing), a joint research initiative between MATRA, INRIA, ENS-Lyon, and CNRS.
In 2000, he joined EADS-SYCOMORE as Head of the Telecom & Media business, managing about 100 people and developing middleware, back-office software and architectures for operators, broadcasters, and media companies. In 2003, this business merged with EADS Telecom, were he developed IPTV platforms and IP data infrastructures over the EADS Mobile Radio Tetrapol system. In 2004, he sold the IPTV activity to THOMSON Telecom, giving rise to the Telecom Systems & Solutions department, dedicated to developing transverse platforms that are complementary to THOMSON Set Top Boxes and the GRASSVALLEY Encoding activity.
Eric has an engineering degree from E.N.S.T., a leading French university specializing in Telecom.