Jacques DEGUEST

En résumé

Entreprises

• DEGUEST Angel Investment - Representative Director

  2010 - maintenant I am an Angel Investor, lawyer and NED (Non-Executive Director) specialising, in Asia and Japan in particular, in supporting and coaching entrepreneurs with a focus on the Service industry.
  I strongly believe in empowering women entrepreneurs in Asia. If you share the same value, feel free to contact me!
  I also provide Cost Optimisation for SME (Small & Medium Enterprises), helping them to improve on their productivity.
  I am passionate to bring about change, so if you are looking for a supportive, trustworthy and fair angel investor at the very early stage of your company to help you build it, make it grow and prepare it for its future, contact me : http://www.deguest.asia/en/contact-us

• AXA Technology Services - Asia Pacific Regionalization Head

  Nanterre 2008 - 2010 Transforming the AXA Technology Services entities in Asia Pacific (600 people strong) to form one regional organization under a common P&L, Corporate Governance, Strategy, HR, Communication, etc leveraging centers of expertise in each country.

• AXA Technology Services Japan - Head of Commercial Services

  2006 - 2008 Client Relationship, Governance, Demand Management, Sales, Pricing, VOC, Communication.
  Coordination with other AXA Tech entities. Making OLA, MSA, MOU
  Responsible for company P/L

• TBWA Japan - Head of Information Technology

  2003 - 2005 - Merged the IT divisions of TBWA Japan and TEQUILA Japan and achieved Productivity Savings
  - Created a IT Policies document reviewed and approved by top management
  - Increased security and process for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  - Created 2005 IT Group Budget approved by 3 companies CFOs
  - Support of New Business with top tier client/brand (Japan Tobacco Int, Master Foods, adidas Japan, Levi’s, Shu Uemura, Le Club des Créateurs de beauté)
  - Directing mobile R&D and development for Japan 3 mobile carriers (NTT/DoCoMo, KDDi, Vodafone)
  - Nominated and trained the Infrastructure Manager
  - Merged the two Networks comprising of 200+ stations and printers
  - Conducted design, audit and project direction to replace 100 end-of-life PC workstations with iMac G5 and reduce support call
  - Improved Server Room standard (A/C, Access, security)
  - Built procedure and checklist for update of Financial application to live servers
  - Set out development standard (CVS, Makefile, naming scheme, PM)

• ValueCommerce, Inc. - Web Hosting Manager

  2001 - 2001 Development of new Web Hosting solution and its Business Plan with advanced services, client control panel with automated system connected to Oracle database.

• DIGIWEB - Founder & Managing Director

  1997 - 2001 Built Business Plan for inception of company and funded it. Achieved over 2,000 clients in 4 years
  Development of New Business, online supporting marketing campaign
  Management of Cash Flow, Growth, Collection
  Outsourced data center in College Park, Maryland
  Developed a R&D division, online Control Panel for users own management of their account
  Conducted the development PoPList, a semi automated e-mail marketing tool that grew to 5.3 millions subscribers

Formations

• University Of Liverpool (Liverpool)

  Liverpool 2012 - 2014 LLM, Master of Laws
  
  Graduated with distinction (cum laude).
  Master dissertation/thesis on "Cross-country Comparison of the Evolution of Corporate Governance from a Shareholder to a Stakeholder Perspective"
  The five countries reviewed were: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea.
  http://www.deguest.asia/Documents/LLM-Dissertation.pdf

• Globis University Graduate School Of Management (Tokyo)

  Tokyo 2011 - 2013 Master of Business Administration

• Université Paris Dauphine

  Paris 1990 - 1994 Japanese Culture and Civilization

Réseau

• Aymeric MAGNAN DE BELLEVUE

• Christian DEGUEST

• Christophe POIZAT

• Jean-Marie OROSCO

• Julien CHAMBILLE

• Laurence MIGLIORINI

• Marc LEGAY

• Stéphane MALHOMME

• Yvon VELOT