Management team

Olivier Dellenbach: Founder, President & CEO

As the founder and CEO of eFront, a leading software provider of financial solutions, Olivier Dellenbach has extensive experience in the alternative investment and risk management industries. He leads the strategic paths of the company and its solutions, ensuring innovation remains the core value. Prior to founding eFront, he co-founded NAT Systèmes in 1987, becoming its chairman in 1989. At the end of 1998, with offices in 8 different countries, over 250 employees and revenues of over €35 million, the company was sold to the Canadian group Cognicase. Olivier is a graduate of École Polytechnique (1981), one of the most selective engineering schools in Europe.

Philippe Verboogen: COO FrontInvest Continental Europe

A graduate from HEC in Brussels (ICHEC) in 1986, Philippe started his career in the ERP business as Program Director for a Swiss pharmaceutical company, working in several countries in Europe. In the mid-nineties, he became Senior Manager at KPMG Peat Marwick for major US and European companies. In 2000, Philippe joined Hyperion -a US-based corporate performance management software vendor where he held leadership functions in the sales and consulting areas. When Hyperion was acquired in 2007, he moved to Business Objects (acquired by SAP in 2008) to lead one of the EMEA Business Units. For the last couple of years, Philippe was employed by Linedata as Managing Director for Continental Europe.

Philippe joined eFront in 2012 as COO for Continental Europe with a key objective of maintaining eFront’s strong growth in Continental Europe.

Eric Bernstein: COO North America

Eric Bernstein joined eFront from Sophis, where he spent four years as chief operating officer in the North America regions. Prior to joining Sophis, Eric spent six years at Linedata Services in various roles including senior vice president and head of sales in North America. Prior to Linedata Services he held positions at PaineWebber as head equity trader, and at Melvin Specialists as a market maker and equity trader. Eric brings a tremendous track record of solutions selling and marketing in the financial industry.

Eric Bernstein joined eFront in 2011 as COO, North America and is responsible for coordinating Sales and Professional Services in the US and Canada and developing eFront’s growing North American client base that includes private equity and real estate investors, fund managers and service providers.

   
Tarek Chouman: COO Asia & Middle East  

A graduate of ISIM (1994), Tarek Chouman started his career in IT services. In 1997, he joined the Logispace Group to take charge of the development of a software suite dedicated to the management of big companies' real estate assets. In 1999, he joined Canadian Group Cognicase, as Manager of Integration and Engineering Activities in Europe.

In 2003, he joined eFront as Services Manager before being appointed Managing Director for France and Continental Europe in 2004. In 2008, he opened eFront's office in Dubai as Managing Director for Asia & the Middle East. In 2010, he opened eFront’s office in Hong Kong to support the growing business in China.

Stuart Keeler: COO eFront Limited (London)

After graduating from West of England University (1990), Stuart Keeler started his career at Diagram Systems - a publisher of banking applications - where he held a variety of duties before being appointed sales manager in charge of the British subsidiary. In 1997, he is recruited to restructure and revitalize C-Dilla Limited, a company specialized in the management of digital rights. After his successful sale of the company in June 1999, he joined a private equity management firm as manager of an equity portfolio.

In 2002, he joined eFront as Managing Director of the British subsidiary.

Gildas Mathurin: COO FrontGRC and Business Solutions

Before joining eFront, Gildas Mathurin managed Astek Finance, which specializes in information system consulting and integration for banking and insurance. He was also a division manager at Sopra Group and managed Euvoxa, a company active in software consulting. Gildas Mathurin has many years of experience consulting and managing software projects that adopt an innovative technological approach. Gildas holds a Master's degree in Political Science and a post-graduate diploma of Business Administration.

Gildas Mathurin joined eFront in 2011 as COO FrontGRC and Business Solutions.

David Miller: Chief Marketing Officer 

David Miller joined eFront from IntraLinks where he spent two years as Vice President of Product Marketing with global responsibilities. Prior to IntraLinks, David spent a year at CA Technologies running go-to-market initiatives in the security business unit. David landed at CA after the purchase of Orchestria where he was Vice President of Product Marketing. Prior to Orchestria, he spent a combined nine years at Siebel Systems (now Oracle), Sapient and Accenture. David graduated from Dartmouth College and earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

David joined eFront in 2011 as Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for furthering eFront's global leadership in the alternative investment industry.

Béatrice Vachonfrance: Director of Global Business Development

After graduating from ESCP (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris), Béatrice Vachonfrance began her career working in Executive Recruitment and Human Resources. She acquired diverse experiences while working with leading international recruitment firms such as Bernard Krief Consulting Group (BKCG), Expatria Management Search. She partnered with M. Daniel Jouve and M. Russel Reynold to create Directorship, a recruitment firm specializing in Director-level placements. 

At eFront, Béatrice is responsible for managing business development worldwide. Prior to this role, Béatrice managed sales and business development activities for Continental Europe. Béatrice originally joined eFront in 2001 as head of HR, quickly assuming sales responsibilities for France and Europe.

Matthieu Plessis: Chief Administrative and Financial Officer  

Having graduating from ESSCA (Angers) in 1990, Matthieu Plessis worked at Glaxo before joining SFR-CEGETEL in 1992 where he was successively put in charge of the tracking of the subsidiaries, the Cegetel Group's management report, then the Group's financial studies and scheduling, before joining Cegetel entreprises in 1998 as Controller of Data and Internet Offers.

At the beginning of 2001, he joined eFront as Chief Administrative and Financial Officer.

Thomas Nokin: Chief Technology Officer

A graduate of Polytechnique (1989) and ENSTA (1992), Thomas Nokin started his career as consultant at NAT Systèmes before joining the product development center. He was then put in charge of the development of the objects broker of NAT Systèmes, then of the NatWeb tool which creates dynamic websites. From 1999 to 2004, he co-founded and became CTO of the American company PackOnline, which supplies health professionals with light client management software marketed on the Internet in ASP mode.

In 2002 he joined eFront, where he is now CTO.