Raphael Perez, CEO, founder

Raphael’s previous job was at Steek, a French online storage startup. As VP Sales at Steek, Raphael was instrumental in the growth of the company. As the leader of the Sales and Business development teams, he succeeded in bringing the company to a position of international leadership, which led to its purchase by F-Secure, the worldwide leader in VAS security solutions for ISPs.

With close to 22 years of experience in the software industry and 16 years of experience in the Internet business, Raphael has held senior roles in Sales, Marketing and international expansion for well-established companies and start-ups (e.g. Steek, CheckPoint, L&A, Lotus and Borland). Raphael has also been an entrepreneur and he has sold 2 companies to NASDAQ-listed companies.

Raphael’s experience is in creating and executing strategic plans and building multi-cultural teams to meet ambitious objectives without borders and through international partnerships.

In OpenSearchServer, Raphael will set up and execute the growth plan and will help to ensure that solution roadmap meets expectations.

Raphael Perez has a Master’s in MIS (MIAGE) and a Management degree (DEA) from Paris Dauphine University.

Emmanuel Keller, CTO, founder

In his last job, Emmanuel was the GISI Interactive CIO. GISI is the IT division of Infopro Group a French B2B media group with online and offline activities.

Emmanuel initiated and led a project at GISI to provide a better quality of online activities. In 2008, he and his team succeeded in developing advanced software which allows Infopro Group to run many strategic applications that represent several tens of millions of dollars in yearly revenues for them. Emmanuel left this position in December 2009, made a deal to acquire the software, and started a new company to launch OpenSearchServer. In his 15 years career, Emmanuel has held every position in programming teams, including managing a team of 25 engineers.

Since a very young age, Emmanuel has been fond of programming and for him creating software always brings advantages and adds more value for users.

His past jobs with technology leaders such as Lagardère, Club Internet and EBP taught him to manage a team under pressure and meet delivery goals while maintaining high quality standards.

In the OpenSearchServer project, Emmanuel is in charge of all technical and programming activities (Product development, R&D, Support, SaaS and hosting, Professional services).

Emmanuel has a degree in Computer Engineering.