Dominique Trempont
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Dominique Trempont is a US executive and board member in large multinational high tech companies and start-ups.
, emerging markets and Asia: Energy Recovery Inc (NASDAQ: ERII - $60M) that makes desalination affordable and is the second company to have gone public in 2008; chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee, CEO Search, Finance and Audit Committees. RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK - $400M) that is a leader in on-line entertainment (video, music, SMS, ringtones, games), Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR - $800M), leader in high speed fiber optic communication systems. The Daily Mail and General trust (London Stock Exchange DMGT.L – £2.1B), a global B2B and B2C media company, focused on high quality content and publishing apps. ON24 ($70M - private), a late stage software as a service company, leader in webcasting and virtual shows. Trempont is also on the advisory board of INSEAD Business School (Europe/Singapore) since 2001, where he teaches the course "Building High Tech Businesses in Silicon Valley", as an adjunct professor.
He spent the first 14 years of his career as a key executive at Raychem
, a company focusing in material science and a pre-cursor of the cleantech space, with worldwide responsibilities and a focus on large scale turnarounds in the US, China
, India
, Japan
, Latin America
and Europe
. Raychem was a billion dollar company operating globally in 80 countries and was later acquired by Tyco.
In 1993, Steve Jobs
recruited Trempont to turn around NeXT, first as CFO then to lead operations, while Steve Jobs focused on Pixar. Dominique led NeXT’s shift from hardware to Internet focused software and brought the company to profitability. He successfully restructured the company financially, organizationally and strategically, and sold NeXT to Apple in 1997 for $462M.
In 1997, Trempont joined hands with the founder of Gemplus (now renamed Gemalto), world leader in smart cards, and became CEO of Gemplus Corp. He built a highly profitable $150M new business in two years by focusing on the convergence of mobile consumer applications, micro-payments and on-line security. Gemplus has since gone public and is now a 2 billion dollar company.
In 1999, Trempont became chairman and CEO of Kanisa, an early-stage enterprise natural language search & knowledge management software start-up. He focused the venture on customer self-service, contact center, and peer support applications. The company merged with ConsonaCRM in 2007.
Between 1996 and 1997, Trempont sat on the board of Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY), leader in enterprise search.
In 1998, Trempont became a founding investor in Signio, a leading online payment platform. Signio was sold to Verisign for $700M in 1999 and, a couple of years later, was acquired by eBay
/Paypal
.
In 2006, he joined the board and chaired the Finance and Audit Committee of 3Com
(NASDAQ, COMS), a global networking solution company; 3Com was acquired for $3.3B by Hewlett-Packard
in 2010.
, and a BA in Business Administration and software engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium
.
Career
Dominique Trempont serves on the board of directors of private and public companies, with strategic focus on disruptive technologiesDisruptive technology
A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network , displacing an earlier technology there...
, emerging markets and Asia: Energy Recovery Inc (NASDAQ: ERII - $60M) that makes desalination affordable and is the second company to have gone public in 2008; chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee, CEO Search, Finance and Audit Committees. RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK - $400M) that is a leader in on-line entertainment (video, music, SMS, ringtones, games), Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR - $800M), leader in high speed fiber optic communication systems. The Daily Mail and General trust (London Stock Exchange DMGT.L – £2.1B), a global B2B and B2C media company, focused on high quality content and publishing apps. ON24 ($70M - private), a late stage software as a service company, leader in webcasting and virtual shows. Trempont is also on the advisory board of INSEAD Business School (Europe/Singapore) since 2001, where he teaches the course "Building High Tech Businesses in Silicon Valley", as an adjunct professor.
He spent the first 14 years of his career as a key executive at Raychem
Raychem
Raychem Corporation was founded in Menlo Park/Redwood City, California in 1957 by Paul Cook, James B. Meikle, and Richard W. Muchmore. The original name of the company was RayTherm Wire and Cable and later formed a subsidiary named RayClad Tubes. The company changed names to avoid confusion with...
, a company focusing in material science and a pre-cursor of the cleantech space, with worldwide responsibilities and a focus on large scale turnarounds in the US, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Raychem was a billion dollar company operating globally in 80 countries and was later acquired by Tyco.
In 1993, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc...
recruited Trempont to turn around NeXT, first as CFO then to lead operations, while Steve Jobs focused on Pixar. Dominique led NeXT’s shift from hardware to Internet focused software and brought the company to profitability. He successfully restructured the company financially, organizationally and strategically, and sold NeXT to Apple in 1997 for $462M.
In 1997, Trempont joined hands with the founder of Gemplus (now renamed Gemalto), world leader in smart cards, and became CEO of Gemplus Corp. He built a highly profitable $150M new business in two years by focusing on the convergence of mobile consumer applications, micro-payments and on-line security. Gemplus has since gone public and is now a 2 billion dollar company.
In 1999, Trempont became chairman and CEO of Kanisa, an early-stage enterprise natural language search & knowledge management software start-up. He focused the venture on customer self-service, contact center, and peer support applications. The company merged with ConsonaCRM in 2007.
Between 1996 and 1997, Trempont sat on the board of Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY), leader in enterprise search.
In 1998, Trempont became a founding investor in Signio, a leading online payment platform. Signio was sold to Verisign for $700M in 1999 and, a couple of years later, was acquired by eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
/Paypal
PayPal
PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....
.
In 2006, he joined the board and chaired the Finance and Audit Committee of 3Com
3Com
3Com was a pioneering digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw...
(NASDAQ, COMS), a global networking solution company; 3Com was acquired for $3.3B by Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
in 2010.
Education
Trempont has a Master of Business Administration from INSEADINSEAD
INSEAD is an international graduate business school and research institution. It has campuses in Europe , Asia , and the Middle East , as well as a research center in Israel...
, and a BA in Business Administration and software engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
.