Arnaud Laprévote, CEO Mandriva

He started his career at the Institut of Data Processing of the Technical University of Darmstadt. He then joined worked the TeleDiffusion de France Research Center as of head of digital electronics laboratory) and Thomson Multimedia R&D France as the leader of the Advanced Television and Multimedia Group. He holds various patents related to digital electronics and video processing. Arnaud created Free&ALter Soft in 1996, which became Linbox FAS in 2001 when it acquired the assets of the Linbox startup. The Linbox Rescue Server software was created in this environment and is now used massively in industry and administrations in France. Linbox FAS was bought by Mandriva in 2007.

Arnaud has engineering degrees from “Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques de Besançon” and from “Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de Radio-électricité de Grenoble” and a masters of accousto-opto-electronics and vibration from the Franche-Comté University. He joined Mandriva in 2007, when Linbox was acquired by Mandriva.

Gaurav Parakh, VP Mandriva Brazil Unit & WW Partnership Alliance

Prior to joining Mandriva, Gaurav was an associate consultant at "Amul", one of the biggest conglomerate in Asia, unit he co-founded "Dialog" in 2000, an educational consulting & conseling company for international universities and domestic students. He joined Mandriva as a Partnership Manager to build Mandriva's world-wide franchies network. His roles includes enabling Mandriva's business through strategic business development, operational marketing and international partnership management. Later he was promoted to manage Mandriva global partnership alliance including International ISVs relationships & Mandriva, Brazil subsidiary (in charge of P&L operation, business development, marketing and sales).

A Post-graduate MBA in International business from "Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées" (ENPC), Paris and BBMS from University of Bradford UK. Gaurav holds an academic white paper work on "Linux industry & disruptive future technology.

Stéphane Laurière, Head of research & Deputy CTO

Stéphane is heading the research activities of Mandriva, which cover topics including the use of formal methods in software engineering, cloud computing, security, the semantic and collaborative Web, green IT, human computer interaction and others. He coordinated the EDOS European research project which resulted in significant improvements in the management of packages within Linux distributions, and he initiated the participation of Mandriva in the Nepomuk project on the design of an open-source semantic desktop infrastructure, now deeply integrated into the KDE environment.

Before joining Mandriva, Stéphane worked at INRIA and at Thales Research. He graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Paris in 1999.


JP Maurin, VP Sales