Eric Chaniot

I'm the co-founder and CEO of iWoM. As the CEO, I'm in charge of many things but in particular : the financing, the team management, the marketing and the road map.

VP and General Manager of a 70M$ software business acquired by HP. My main job was to enable a smoothness integration of the 120 team coming from Novadigm inside a big corporation. It was more of a human challenge than technical one. I was in charge of the sales, R&D, marketing, etc.

I created a business from scratch inside HP. In 2 years, we generated 2M$ and the team was composed of 50 people across 3 geographies (US, Europe and Asia). I managed all the functions (finance, sales, consulting, marketing and R&D).

I managed the marketing for a 3.2B$ commercial PC division. The team was composed of 70 professionals around the globe.

I created a new product line called the HP e-pc. This revolutionary new PC generated an excess of more than 1.5B$ for HP and was revolutionary. It took 2 years for Dell to catch up and it was the ancestor of the Apple Mac Mini.

I managed a team of 7 professionals across Europe.

I managed a team of product managers in charge of the consumer and also the business markets and channels.

I did many job, one been in charge of the first wireless notebook in the world : PowerBop. A great image product, however a disaster in term of sales.

How to manage and motivate the sales force.

How to create systems in order to protect your competitive advantage with time.

I had to close a division, so this training helped me doing this job and also later enabling me to integrate small companies inside big corporation.

HP selected the top 200 managers in the world to make them executives.