Born in Karlovac (Croatia) in 1973, Mr. PERCHET is a French national. Mr. PERCHET holds a bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from Lincoln International Business School (Paris, France).

 

Mr. PERCHET is a proven entrepreneurial CEO / COO with a background in introducing new IT & Innovative high value-added solutions on markets across Europe and driving strategic direct and indirect sales with key accounts in various verticals (Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Services, Utilities). Over the last 25 years, he has developed businesses in the United- States and Europe as well. In 1996, he was appointed by D.I Group (LVMH / Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group) in Mountain View (Silicon Valley, California) before joining Acorre Consulting Group (advising US vendors for Product strategy and development) in Redwood City (Silicon Valley, California). Back to Europe, he worked for Celartem Software ((Digital Asset Management software, Paris & Osaka Japan) and Keyrus group to run International expansion (Spain, Brazil) and business development initiatives with large accounts.

 

More recently, Mr. PERCHET has founded Appex a French based company pioneering services in consulting and integration of data management and artificial intelligence. Founded in Paris (France) in 2008, Appex generated revenue of € 5 million in 2019, primarily in Banking and Insurance as well as in Retail. In 11 years, the company has emerged as a benchmark in the market, in particular as a result of its technological choices based on innovative solutions (such as Atscale, Delphix, DataRobot, Domino Data Lab, IBM Netezza, Snowflake…) around Analytics, Appliances, Big Data, Data Virtualization, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning. Appex has been acquired with a multimillion transaction in December 2019 by VINCI ENERGIES part of VINCI Group (€ 48.1 bn Revenue in 2019 / 110 countries / 222,397 employees / 3,200 companies).
 

In 2019, Mr. PERCHET has launched FINANCIERE AP, a SAS company with a capital 1,900,000 € listed in the Paris with registered office in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France). He is currently President of FINANCIERE AP. Co-Investment partners at OneRagtime (founded by Stéphanie Hospital and Jean-Marie Messier, next generation of venture capital specialized in the sourcing, financing, and scaling of early stage French and Pan-European start-ups). Strategic Sourcing Partners in the USA (Boston, New-York, San Francisco, Bay Area), Israel, Asia.