Guillaume Balas
CMO, 3SCALE NETWORKS - www.3scale.net
Currently entrepreneur, investor and CMO and Biz Dev at 3scale.
Previously senior strategy consultant with Oliver Wyman. My responsibilities along his 7 years experience as consultant focus on business development, strategic planning and operations management in the IT and Telecom sectors. Guillaume holds an Industrial engineering degree from ENSAM, Paris, France and a MBA from ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
Participated and/or managed cross-functional projects covering the following topics: marketing, strategic planning, business development/start-up, operations management, distribution, companies mergers, private equity, investment analysis.
128 contacts3scale provides an Out-of-the-Box Cloud API management Platform & Infrastructure for developers, and companies to securely open, control, manage, operate and monetize their API to 3rd parties (e.g. developers, business partners, etc).
3scale’s technology powers Skype, Wine.com, Viadeo, JustAnswer.com, Maxdome, and the API [R]evolution - http://www.3scale.net/our-customers/
3scale has offices in the Silicon Valley, the UK and Spain. For more information on 3scale, visit: www.3scale.net.
2006 - 2009World Top 5 Management and Strategy Consulting Firm
Advised various companies in South America, Europe, and Middle East. The range of projects covered spans from corporate strategy and business development to commercial performance and operational efficiency.
2005 - 2006Private Equity fund with over 700M€ invested
Conducted industry and competitor researches across Spain to highlight potential targets companies having between 40 and 180 million euros turnover.
Conducted financial analysis and valuation of these companies.
Reported directly to the Executive Partner for Spain.
2000 - 2004International IT & Telecom Consulting company with 400M€ turnover and more than 4000 employees in Europe and Middle East
Program Management Office (PMO)
Led and managed 8 national and international fixed priced projects covering 5 industries and involving a total of 26 consultants and experts.
Managed, organized and deployed an 8 months national training program for 4000 end users to be trained on newly implemented software for a major French utilities group.
Managed fixed price projects with a success rate of 100% and a completion cost 2% to 5% lower than the forecasted one.
Commercial Activities
Prepared answers to requests for tender and participated to negotiations, closing 7 of the 8 fixed priced projects I have worked on.
Participated to the setting up of the partnership between Devoteam and a major client after having managed a series of 3 projects for this client in only 1 year.
Trainer
Developed, presented and managed an in-company-training program: 10 persons trained over 2003-2004.