Team

Management

Mancala Networks managers have a proven track record of building software solutions for the IT and Telecommunication industries, and bringing them to market success.

Marc Rozier, CEO

Marc is a graduate of ENSIMAG (1981) and completed his doctorate at the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (1987). After four years of research in networking and distributed systems at the French research institute INRIA (Rocquencourt), Marc co-founded Chorus Systems, where he directed the research and development of Chorus' innovative technology, a precursor of modern virtualization technologies. As V.P. Engineering and Board Director, Marc helped lead Chorus to $13 million in revenue prior to its being acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1997. At Sun Microsystems, Marc managed international development organizations (France, USA, India), bringing to market telecom and data center software solutions. In 2007, Marc became CTO of Quiconnect Ltd, a specialist systems integrator for wireless networks (WiFi, WiMAX). Marc is co-author of multiple publications in international journals and conferences. He has been on the board of directors of several start-ups.

Rory Higgins, VP Marketing

Rory graduated from the University of St Thomas, USA with a B.A. in International studies in Economics. Rory brings 17 years of international business experience. After starting his career in sales at Ameritech, Rory spent just over a year in Japan working as an independent consultant. Upon returning from Japan, Rory joined Firepond, a US based interactive selling, product configuration and crm provider where he held multple positions in technical support, project management and pre-sales. In 1995, Rory helped to sign Firepond's first international client and moved to France to develop their professional services organization. In 2005, Rory joined Quiconnect, SAS where he was responsible for operations and business development with customers including Orange, BT, SFR, and Sprint among others.

Alan Dekok, CTO

Alan DeKok is a world expert in networking technologies and protocols, founder of the market leading FreeRADIUS open source RADIUS server (in use in more than 100,000 organizations) and founder of the Network RADIUS consulting company. He is a recognized contributor to Internet specifications at IETF, where, in particular, he co-chairs the EMU working group. Alan holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Philippe Marxgut, VP Business Development

Philippe combines invaluable customer focused expertise with more than 20 years of experience in numerous executive IT management positions within large, multi-national companies. Most recently, he served as Distributed Infrastructure & Telecom Director for Casino Group, a major global food centric retailer headquartered in France. A Member of the Casino IT Board, he was directly implicated in defining, setting up and rolling out IT innovations for all stores and warehouses. Prior to joining Casino in 2000, he held multiple senior management positions within Hewlett-Packard over a period of 15 years, most recently as European Network Manager. In addition, he has participated in and chaired leading industry user's groups and advisory boards in Retail IT. He graduated from ENSERG (1984) and holds a certificate of General Management from EM Lyon.

Technology, services and operations

Mancala Networks founding team includes experts in software development, open source solutions, networking software and IT administration.

Jean-Michel Bonnefond

Jean-Michel is a recognized expert in open-source software and network administration, and a skilled team manager. Jean-Michel founded three start-ups, including Ionix Services, an open source service company acquired by Teamlog in 2001. Jean-Michel holds an engineering degree (DEST) in Computer Science, from AFPA, Grenoble.

Fabien Gauthier

Fabien is a senior project manager. Fabien worked 6 years for Teamlog, where he has led various projects, in particular for Hewlett Packard and Quiconnect Ltd. Fabien then joined Quiconnect Ltd where he served as Service Delivery Manager, managing complex projects involving leading international telecommunication companies.

Simon Pasquier

Simon is a senior software engineer with more than 10 years of IT, networking and and telecommunications expertise. Simon worked for several IT servicing firms, where he architected and developed complex software solutions before joining Quiconnect Ltd where he was leading the software development team. Simon holds an M.Sc. and engineering degree in Electronics and Computer Science from INSA, Rennes.

Michael Rigoni

Michael is a senior IT engineer with 10 years experience in the development, deployment and management of networking and WEB infrastructure and application solutions. Michael worked for large IT servicing firms, before joining Quiconnect Ltd as its IT Manager. Michael holds an M.Sc. and engineering degree from SUPELEC, Gif-sur-Yvette.