Loic Le Meur bio
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Short bio
Loïc is a well-known French entrepreneur, Executive Vice President at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and founder of Ublog, one of Europe's leading blogging tools providers and hosting services. Prior to joining Six Apart EMEA, Loïc founded and served as CEO for several companies in France, including Tekora, an ASP-driven website publisher for small businesses; RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company launched in France. Rapid Site France was sold to France Telecom and B2L, one of the first Web agencies launched in France, with clients including Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and Mars, which was sold to BBDO, a leading advertising group. Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Long Bio
Entrepreneur
- Executive VP & Managing Director of Europe, Six Apart, the Company behind TypePad and Movable Type
- Ublog.com, 2003-present, founder & CEO. A European blogging tool and host, acquired by Six Apart in June 2004.
- Tekora, 2000-2002, founder & CEO. An ASP driven websites publisher for small businesses, sold to Access-Commerce (a public French software company) and then spined-off and relaunched (now I am just a business angel) as a mobile enabled and friendly website publishing tool. Raised Û6,1M from ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Société Générale Asset Management and fd5.
- RapidSite France, 1996-1999, founder. Quickly became the #1 small business shared web hosting company in France and sold to France Telecom that integrated it into its Wanadoo offer.
- B2L, 1996-1999, founder & CEO. One of the first web agencies launched in France. Clients included Chanel, Peugeot, 20th Century Fox and many other major brands. Sold to the leading advertising group BBDO.
Activist & Speaker
- Organized "Les Blogs" event at the Senate in Paris, 300 people from 20 countries participated
- World Economic Forum, "Young Global Leader" in 2004 and GLT (2001), speaker (2004 European Economic Summit "Building a Business-Friendly Europe" (Video of the speech), 2004 Davos, "blogs and journalism", 2002 Davos, "the Future of Europe")
- Supernova 2004, speaker.
- Jury Member & Speaker at the French Venture Capital & Entrepreneurs event Capital-IT.
- "Maître de Conférences" at the French Business School HEC, HEC-Entrepreneurs.
- Jury President in 1999 of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Cyber Lions.
- Jury Member of the 2000 Clio Awards.
Occasional author
- "Minding your own business. French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing", The Guardian, 2004.
- "La publicité sur Internet", Dunod, a book of the French Chapter of the Internet Advertising Bureau.
Education & family
- 31, Married, three children
- Graduated in 1996 from the French Business School HEC.
Some Press clips
- "Vive les Blogs", by Robert Andrews, Wired News, 2005
- "At the Davos Conference, Small Fry With Big Dreams", by Erik Portanger, Wall Street Journal, 2004.
- "With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are out", by Thomas Crampton, International Herald Tribune, 2004.
- "Le Meur is a young man in a hurry who walks fast, talks fast, and starts businesses fast" in "The next French Revolution", by Cait Murphy, CNN, 2000.
