Mario Kaloustian

Mario is a Managing Director at Invus (www.invus.com), based in Paris. He is on the board of several European technology and software companies. Prior to joining Invus in 2008, Mario had ten years of management consulting and operational experience, including in software development. He has an engineering degree from Telecom ParisTech and an MBA from INSEAD.

He joined Jahia’s board in 2015.

Victor Doussineau

Private Equity, Europe, Invus

Victor is part of the European Private Equity team at Invus. Since he joined in 2016, he has been working on new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, especially in the technology and consumer industries. Prior to that, Victor was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Paris. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and also holds an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the Bocconi University in Milan.
 
Victor became a Jahia board member in 2019.
 

Patrick Hoffstetter

Founder and CEO, Newmedia360

Patrick is a senior executive with nearly 30 years of experience managing international teams, strategic, business and marketing developments in various sectors and global digital expertise. He joined Jahia’s board as an independent board member in 2017.

As founder and CEO of Newmedia360, Patrick provides strategic consulting on digital transformation in various sectors for major corporations, SMEs and technology pure-plays.

As consultant and/or business angel he has also supported more than 40 startups. Patrick is also a highly sought-after international conference keynote speaker, and is a senior advisor to Bain & Company EMEA, Viva Technology, and Capital Croissance.

Prior to Newmedia360, Patrick was Chief Digital Officer at Renault Group, where he established and ran its Digital Factory among other key programs. A recognized international digital transformation expert, Patrick was named the first EU Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2015 by the CDO Club, the world's first and largest community of C-suite digital leaders.

Elie Auvray

Head of Business Development and Co-founder

Elie manages business development for Jahia and is an evangelist for new technologies Jahia brings to market. He engages with customers, the marketplace and partners to share how Jahia helps organizations stack up in order to stand out.

Elie started his first company, Voice, in 1996, together with Jahia Chief Software Officer Thomas Draier, pioneering easy-to-use web application development. Following Voice’s merger to form Reef Internetware, he stayed on at Reef to grow its European and North American sales operations. In 2001, Reef successfully raised 85 million euros in VC funding from Goldman Sachs, 3i and Viventures.

After Reef’s acquisition by Mediasurface in 2002, Elie started Jahia’s French operations and then co-founded Jahia Solutions Group with Serge, Michel, Philippe, and Thomas. Elie helped Jahia emerge as the most flexible and easy-to-use DX technology that protects customer privacy while serving as CEO and now as Head of Business Development of the company.

Elie has a bachelor’s degree in business and tax law and a master’s in contract law, majoring in tech contract.

Michel Romy

Vice President, Customer Service and Support and Co-founder

Michel leads all of Jahia’s support and customer service operations and is proud of the company’s consistently high customer retention. Jahia’s excellent support is often one of the key reasons cited by customers for selecting Jahia. 

Michel has over 20 years of experience in the web content management solutions space. He co-founded Xo3, the WCM software company, with Philippe and Serge. Following Xo3’s acquisition, Michel co-founded Jahia Solutions in 2002. Michel has held key leadership positions in project management, account management and professional services at Jahia and Xo3. 
 
He holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
 
A firm believer in team effort and shared successes, Michel takes great pride in recruiting talented, customer-focused team players. He believes that management is much less about controlling people's work and definitely more about giving them the space to accomplish great things.

Michel Romy

Vice President, Customer Service and Support and Co-founder

Michel leads all of Jahia’s support and customer service operations and is proud of the company’s consistently high customer retention. Jahia’s excellent support is often one of the key reasons cited by customers for selecting Jahia. 

Michel has over 20 years of experience in the web content management solutions space. He co-founded Xo3, the WCM software company, with Philippe and Serge. Following Xo3’s acquisition, Michel co-founded Jahia Solutions in 2002. Michel has held key leadership positions in project management, account management and professional services at Jahia and Xo3. 
 
He holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
 
A firm believer in team effort and shared successes, Michel takes great pride in recruiting talented, customer-focused team players. He believes that management is much less about controlling people's work and definitely more about giving them the space to accomplish great things.

Philippe Vollenweider

Co-founder and Senior Support Engineer
 

Philippe is a co-founder and an initial developer of Jahia. He is now part of the support team, where he uses his intimate knowledge of Jahia to help our customers and partners come up with ingenious solutions to the trickiest issues.
 
An expert at all aspects of web development, from web design ergonomics to the full integration process, Philippe is a real Swiss Army knife to Jahia developers, helping them turn project specifications into the live production sites they envision.
 
Philippe is passionate about volunteering his time and talent to causes he cares about. He is President and Co-founder of Casa Alinaza Switzerland, a Geneva-based nonprofit he started in 1997, to support children living on the streets. He also records and mixes music for local bands.

Thomas Draier

Chief Software Architect and Co-founder

Thomas manages Jahia’s global software architecture as well as oversees the implementation of chosen standards and frameworks. He is currently a committer at the Apache Software Foundation and a PMC member for Apache Unomi and Apache Jackrabbit (Content Repository reference implementation).
 
Prior to Jahia, which he co-founded in 2002, he co-created the company, Voice, with Elie Auvray, pioneering easy-to-use web application development. Following Voice’s merger in 1999, he joined the new entity, Reef Internetware. After Reef’s acquisition in 2002, he started Jahia together with Elie, Serge, Michel and Philippe Vollenweider.
 
Thomas has more than 20 years of experience developing WCM software and business process management solutions. He has a master’s degree in computer science, majoring in artificial intelligence, from the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
 
His personal interests include reading classical and modern books, watching movies (in a real movie theatre), cooking for friends and family, rock climbing, skydiving, and yoga.
 
“Don't talk, just act. Don't say, just show. Don't promise, just prove,” is a favorite quote of Thomas.
 

Serge Huber

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

An initial developer and co-founder of Jahia, Serge now oversees the technical development of all Jahia software offerings and connects with integrators and partners to help them leverage Jahia solutions. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and Chair of the Apache Unomi project management committee as well as a co-chair of the OASIS Customer Data Platform specification. Before Jahia, he co-created Xo3 and MyComponents, serving as CTO & Co-founder at both companies.

With more than 25 years of experience developing WCM, CMS, portal and DXP solutions, Serge constantly strives to find new ways to build high quality, high performance software. His motto is: “I strive to do the impossible.”

Serge’s software development skills range from assembly language to high-end data modeling tools. He is very comfortable on stage in front of a large audience and has spoken or keynoted at many tech events, including ApacheCon, Oracle/Java One and Devoxx.

Serge has a master’s degree in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne). In his free time, he develops multi-platform mobile applications and helps the fearless flying seminar given in Geneva, Switzerland.