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Bruno Vanryb [1] was the BV of BVRP, [2] a Paris-based company he co-founded with Roger Politis in 1984. He was a French entrepreneur [3] (1957 - January 12, 2019). [4] He was the founder and former CEO of Avanquest, a worldwide software company. He headed Be Brave, a consultancy firm.
Vanryb was a former sound engineer [1] and tech journalist (SVM, Micro Systèmes and Soft & Micro particular), and author of twelve books on micro-computers.
In 1984, he cofounded BVRP with Roger Politis, which became Avanquest, a leading software publisher in France and around the world. In January 2014, it counted 530 employees in seven countries. One of the flagship products of the company [1] was a fax software named WinFax. He was CEO, [5] then Executive Chairman [6] of Avanquest until June 2015.
He was also very active in the French digital and innovation ecosystem. Vanryb participated with Denis Payre in the foundation of an association called Croissance Plus, which supports and ensures awareness of growing companies in France, an association he chaired between 1998 and 2000. From 2002 to 2005, Vanryb was President of Middlenext, [7] an association whose members are medium-sized companies, listed on Euronext, Paris stock exchange. In July 2007, Bruno Vanryb was appointed to the Board of Directors of Euronext Paris until 2014. From 2010 to 2015, he was also vice-president of Syntec Numérique, which represents 1,100 member companies and groups, among whom 50% are software companies. Between April 2011 and July 2012, he was also a member and vice-president of the Conseil national du numérique, a consultative group created by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to advise him on digital issues.
Since 2016, Vanryb joined the M&A boutique Avolta Partners as Senior Partner.
Bruno Vanryb died of a motorcycle accident on January 12, 2019.
Bruno Vanryb, chief executive of BVRP Software SA
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Delrina Corporation was an electronic form company in Canada that was acquired by the American software firm Symantec in 1995. The company was best known for WinFax, a software package which enabled computers equipped with fax modems to transmit copies of documents to standalone fax machines or other similarly equipped computers. It also sold PerForm and FormFlow.
WinFax is a discontinued Microsoft Windows-based software product designed to let computers equipped with fax-modems communicate directly to stand-alone fax machines, or other similarly equipped computers.
Pierre Danon is a French entrepreneur. He currently sits on the board of directors of several companies in Europe. He is Chairman of SoLocal Group in Paris. He is also the Executive Chairman of Volia in Kyiv.
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Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur.
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Jean Michel Karam is an Engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of microelectronics, Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Mobile devices Repair software and Hardware engineers.
Dominique Cerutti is a French businessman and has been chairman and CEO of the Altran group since June 2015.
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Houssam Nasrawin, is a French-Jordanian entrepreneur. He is the current president and founder of the non-profit organization Arab Business Leaders ("ABL"), the CEO of Gulf Development Company and Director at the Groupement du Patronat Francophone. He is also an international speaker.
Mounir Mahjoubi is a French entrepreneur and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly from June to July 2017 and from 2019 to 2022. From 2017 until 2019 was the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.
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