Hugo heads up Marketing for France and Southern Europe at Freshworks. Hugo will be presenting the company culture at Freshworks, available positions, and what you can do to get a sit in this rocketship. Brace yourself for a hell of a ride !
Freshworks is a customer and employee experience SaaS provider, that helps companies around the world to delight their customers and employees. Originally created in 2010 from Chennai, India, we are now servicing 50,000+ paying customers across the world from 13 offices. Previously one of the first Indian unicorns, Freshworks has gone public this month on NASDAQ under the sign FRSH and is expanding massively in Europe.
Issu de l’univers du logiciel, je mets en avant mes compétences techniques et ma vision projet pour participer à la transformation numérique des entreprises. Agile, motivé et curieux, je suis toujours en recherche de challenges dans les nouvelles technologies.
Jeff Lovejoy, Senior Talent Acquisition lead for Future Zalent at Zalando will be giving a deep dive into Zalando. Who we are, what we do and how to get your foot in the door to one of Berlins most successful unicorns. Come help us be the starting point for fashion and be a disrupter in the industry. With over 10 years experience in the early career opportunities launching 1000’s of graduates, students, returners, and career changers careers, you definitely don’t want to miss his key advice on how to knock the door down in a competitive job market post corona. Jeff brings experience from Enterprise Rent A Car, FDM group, N26, SumUp and now Zalando.
During a very successful ‘out-of-work’ acting career, Geoff discovered an unerring ability to convince people to buy Encyclopedia Britannicas, Ticketmaster entertainment guides, home mortgages and door-to-door products really not worth buying!
So kissing bye bye to the most outlandish dreams of fame, Hollywood and mixing with the Bob De Niros, Michael Caines and Marlon Brandos of this world, Geoff nurtured his more realistic talent, beginning his first full-time ‘proper’ job in January 2002 with 7city Learning, a start-up financial training company with technology as its genuinely unique selling point. 5 years later with Geoff playing the leading sales role, 7city was acquired by a private equity firm for £30m.
Staying with the same company, he moved on to the challenge of selling an unsuccessful 6-month program – the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) – during the most globally challenging period/crash post 2008, converting the program into a global phenomenon which became the primary focus for the 2nd sale of 7city Learning for £90m to the Fitch Group. Whilst Geoff had global responsibility for developing business and managing client relationships, it was the CQF where Geoff’s passion for recruitment took a hold, helping those who graduated (from students to full-time working professionals and senior directors) to secure IT, technology, quant and engineering roles primarily in the financial services, technology, and professional services sectors across EMEA, North America and APAC.
Whilst maintaining regular contact with CQF Alumni during this 9-year period, many of whom were making waves and now occupying divisional head positions at tier 1 banks and technology firms, Geoff left the Fitch Group in April 2017 to pursue a solo career in recruitment using a significant network of contacts to help him on his way.
As we speak/write, Geoff is in his 13th year in recruitment, continually endeavouring to understand every aspect of a client’s requirements, helping candidates to secure precious roles, and using all his people skills to marry client and candidate with a keen eye on long-term prosperity for both parties.
CEO of EXELERYS, an emerging start-up fighting cybersecurity threats through multiple consolidated services and solutions portfolio across EMEA. He has intervened in multiple events including SecParis, Cloud Native Foundation, Cloud Expo Europe, ISACA, InfoSec, CNCF Paris, CNCF London, UbuCon Europe, UbuCon France, SWWARP, to provide a holistic view on the actual and future view on threat intelligence, where problems and solutions for known and unknown issues were addressed and discussed.
He’s also an official speaker of the Speakers Bureau from the Cloud Native Foundation.
Prior to founding EXELERYS, Jesus was working actively with security vendors worldwide providing enablement and education across the different security issues the corporations faced, working closely with different cross-department teams for years building active solutions for their enterprise customers.
