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Antoine Blondeau is an executive and investor in technology companies in California and Greater China. He has over 18 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor of publicly-traded companies, start-ups, turnarounds and medium-to-large businesses.
Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on Nasdaq, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications as vice president in charge of the wireless and mobile business unit, and at Visto Corporation as senior vice president in charge of worldwide business development and head of Asia/Pacific. He is actively involved with two of Eric Di Benedetto's portfolio companies IdeaBlade, Inc. as a director and management coach, and Kalat Software, Inc. as an advisor.Antoine holds an MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP), France and has studied at the Faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan | 