Akeneo Leadership

Romain is as passionate about technology as he is about solving the customers biggest problems, and brings more than 20 years experience scaling category defining B2B technology companies. Most recently, he led operations and sales as COO and then CRO of the leading AI software vendor Dataiku. Romain is a graduate from Ecole Centrale Paris and holds an MBA from NYU Stern.

Prior to founding Akeneo, Fred was the e-commerce director at Smile, the largest open source system integrator in Europe. Since then, he has become a proven expert in e-business and open source having helped some of the largest retailers in the world (Chantelle, The North Face, Nestlé, Decathlon, etc.) build their e-commerce strategy.

When not leading the world’s most open and generally awesome PIM, Fred can be found exercising his passion for improv theater. And he loves David Bowie. Don’t say anything bad about David.

Prior to founding Akeneo, Benoit was the CTO for Smile, the largest open source system integrator in Europe.
He is an expert in complex web applications, having spent the last 5 years managing a team of 450+ open source developers and launching some of the largest European websites.

In his time outside the office, Benoit shares with us his passion of building and flying model airplanes in our park. We tried. Some of them are still stuck in the trees.

Nadine supports the company through its next phase by implementing infrastructure and processes that support profitable and sustainable growth. She brings 35 years of experience as a COO and CFO for global companies in the tech sector, including most recently at Anaplan.

Andy is collaborating with the Engineering, Product, and Design teams to define Akeneo’s overall technical and product strategy and lead the company toward operating in a multi-product modality. Tyra was a founding team member on AmazonFresh and AWS Marketplace, building these businesses to materiality from the very beginning. He also led Whereby as CEO in 2023.

With a career spanning over twenty years, Sabrina joins Akeneo after serving as the Group Chief People Experience Officer at Singapore-based Funding Societies | Modalku, the pioneer of SME Digital Financing Platform and Debt Investment Platform. Here, she delivered career highlights, including achieving the highest employee retention rates in the history of the company (more than 40%) as well as increasing the eNPS score by a staggering +322%. Other career milestones include implementing DEI strategies and becoming an industry leader in gender diversity, increasing women in leadership positions by 8%. Sabrina is an award-winning HR coach, consulting start-ups and SMEs on a variety of pain points such as culture, values, recruitment, learning & development, people management, HR compliance, operations, KPIs, and OKRs. She has also held multiple HR roles at Hootsuite, ultimately as the Head of Human Resources, where she orchestrated the opening of three regional offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. Additionally, she is a dedicated mentor and actively helps grow the careers of aspiring professionals in the HR field.

In her quality of Chief Operating Officer (COO), Annabelle collaborates closely with CEO Fred de Gombert to drive Akeneo’s strategic agenda and corporate development, including merger and acquisition strategies under Chief Strategy Officer Kristin Naragon’s guidance. She also manages a Project Management Office to enhance operational efficiency and scalability, manage the internal operational calendar, and use data-driven insights for decision-making by developing KPIs and reporting mechanics for growth monitoring. Annabelle’s previous roles include COO at Zoovu, Linkfluence, and VP of Content & Online Services at Dassault Systèmes.

Ziggy, our little hydra, was born on February 9th, 2016.

When it came the time to baptize this little creature, we surveyed the Akeneo team and the answer was obvious: our beloved hydra would be named Ziggy, in memory of Ziggy Stardust, one of David Bowie’s alter egos.

Ziggy has become Akeneo’s official mascot pretty quickly and today, our community manager. She is the connection between Akeneo teams and our beloved community. She is traveling all around the world and spreading happiness wherever she goes. You can follow her on social media with #ziggythehydra and contribute to her adventures…

Oh, and yes, Ziggy is a she.