Franck Lebastard, Cofounder, Chairman and Scientific Director

Dr Lebastard cofounded Infobjects in April 2000. He has over 13 years of experience developing software solutions for Complex Objects Management Systems in Distributed Environments, Meta Model Drivers and Multi-model Database Management Systems. Widely recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of Object-Oriented technologies and Complex DBMS, Dr Lebastard has a proven track record for delivering innovative software solutions to the marketplace; he is the inventor of the ObjectDRIVER kernel. Dr Lebastard has held various scientific and management positions at INRIA and at CERMICS research laboratories where he was in charge of important research and development projects involving Dassault Aviation, O2 Technologies and Ilog. He was Professor at Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE), lecturer at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) and in charge of a master course in Advanced Databases at Nice-Sophia Antipolis University (UNSA). Dr Lebastard is the author of numerous scientific publications on Advanced Databases and Data modeling. He earned his Senior Engineering degree from ENTPE and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science with high honors from INSA of Lyon.

Didier Mendelewitsch, Chief Executive Officer

Didier Mendelewitsch, CEO of Infobjects, has logged more than 20 years in the Information technology Business in presales, sales and marketing and professional services in France and Europe.
He has started his career at Philips Data Systems France as presales and sales engineer in charge of supporting and selling Maestro, software developpement tool from Softlab. After several successful years as sales rep and sales manager, he joined Hewlett Packard France as Solution Marketing manager before joining Information Builders and opening the french subsidiary of this key US Software company, servicing large accounts using the well known Database Application developpement tool Focus. After several exciting years in Digital Equipment France and Europe at senior positions namely as Expertise Centers Manager, he joined Amdahl as Professional Services Director then General Manager for Western Europe. He has then decided to join the fascinating world of the Internet Startups through e-acute, provider of Data and Text entry solutions for wireless communication medias, and lastly Infobjects for which he perceives the opportunity to become within the next three years a key player in the heteregeneous Data Base Application interface arena.

Sylvain Lardon, Sales Operations Director

Sylvain Lardon, Sales Operations Director, has over 20 years of experience in direct and indirect sales of information technologies in France and Europe. He started his career at independent software vendor CCMX. He quickly took the management of a sales branch where he was in charge of both sales, pre-sales and consulting activities. He was appointed as Strategic Accounts Director at DIGITAL before holding various sales management positions. He took an active part in the development of the Indirect Sales strategy including business development with large integrators such as CGEY, Accenture and SEMA. Sylvain joined independent software vendor Systar’s Senior Management Team, focused on the quality of service area, where he created the Indirect Sales and Partnerships Division. He signed the first strategic partnership with DMR Consulting. He was more recently a Regional Managing Director at independent american software vendor WebGain, responsible for the Southern Europe java business development where he successfully sold WebGain’s persistence framework to large european accounts.