Speakers

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  JULIEN BILLOT, President and CEO, YPG

  Julien Billot is an executive with extensive experience in the marketing, media and mobile industries, with a track record of successfully executing print to digital business transformations. He is formerly Executive Vice‐President, Head of Media and Member of the Executive Committee of Solocal Group, (previously PagesJaunes Groupe), the publicly traded and incumbent local search business in France.

  Julien joined Solocal Group in 2009 overseeing its media properties, including web, mobile and print. His mandate was to stabilize the print product audience and to move the company’s digital transformation forward. In four years, under his leadership, total revenues from digital sources grew from 35% to 58% of total revenues as of the most recent fiscal year 2012. He also demonstrated a proven ability to increase digital product profitability margins. Julien also lead the launch and growth of Solocal tablet services as well as its mobile applications, which currently boast 24 million downloads. Additionally, he oversaw the successful integration of acquired start‐up businesses, Fine Media, 123 people, AvendreàLouer.

  Mr. Billot lead a similar transformation during his tenure as CEO of the digital and new business group of Lagardère Active, a multimedia branch of Lagardère Group holding brands such as Elle Magazine. Tasked with growing the division’s global digital business, in three years he multiplied digital revenues for Lagardère Active six times over.

  Julien also spent 13 years in senior management positions at France Telecom, notably as Chief Marketing Officer for Orange, the company’s mobile subsidiary, where he launched 3G services in France in 2004, including Mobile Television and sealed several Mobile Virtual Network Operator Partnerships (Télé2, M6 Mobile by Orange, Virgin Mobile). He also headed the delivery of Mass Market Orange France P&L representing 80% of Orange France revenues and EBITDA (€6 billion revenues, €3 billion EBITDA).

  Julien has also sat on the Board of Directors for leading media groups such as Sporever Group, Telekom Polska, Newsweb, Doctissimo, Le Monde Interactif, Lagardère Active, Relaxnews and Turf Editions. He was president of the Board of News Republic, a global news provider for mobile and a director for digital industry associations in France such as Mobile Marketing Association France, Fondation Télécom, Conseil Stratégique des TICs, and Prix des Technologies de l’Information.

  Mr. Billot is a graduate of École Polytechnique (Paris) and from Telecom Paris Tech. He also holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in Industrial Economics from the University of Paris‐Dauphine.