About Systancia

Systancia's earliest developments date back to 1998, following the research work performed by Christophe Corne with a view to creating new types of low-cost, multi-processor computers (Intel). The founding idea behind the company, which took shape after this work, was to create the AppliDis application, providing administration for the remote execution of user applications on the most available servers and desktops: a simple software tool making redundant resources available to companies for the execution of their usual applications. The market targeted by this development is that of application centralization or virtualization.

Systancia Group

1998 – Systancia founded by Christophe Corne, current Chairman of the Board of Directors
1999 – Gained ANVAR approval (French public innovation support body)
2002 – Launch of the AppliDis 1.0 application following an ambitious R&D programme
2003 – Launch of AppliDis Seamless 1.0 application. This module, developed from the AppliDis base, was one of the first software applications to provide transparent access to applications
2004 - First major clients in the VSE/SME sector
2005 - First major clients in the public sector
2006 – Systancia becomes a player in the key sector of printing with AppliDis Universel Printer 1.0, acknowledged by the US MSTerminalServices site as one of the best software applications in the sector
2007 – Launch ofthe AppliDis 3 version, including key advances in service quality and high availability.
2007 - Systancia posts a profit for the financial year
2008 – Creation of dotgreen, a subsidiary dedicated to Green IT
2008 - First major clients in the Large Accounts sector
2009 – Investment fundraising and capital investment by a UCITS (A Plus Finance)
2009 – Lunch of the AppliDis Fusion 4 solution: first application on the market to incorporate application publication and desktop virtualization within a single administration console.

Systancia on the international stage

2007 – First international successes
2008 - First resellers/integrators, particularly in the United Kingdom, Germany and in various other countries worldwide
2009 – Founding of Systancia UK and official launch of the new version of AppliDis Fusion 4 in London.

Systancia is managed by a directorate for a supervisory board. The directorate is assisted by a team of directors and operational managers.

Directorate (operational management)

Christophe Corne – Chairman of Directors - Founder
Christophe Corne, who holds a doctor's degree in information technology, has run a software publishing company for a major international group (Lagardère Publishing), where he was able to establish the company's application software as the market leader. The AppliDis product was born out of his research work, and gave birth to Systancia, which he founded in 1998. Today, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Systancia, Christophe oversees strategic decisions for the company, including future development paths for the AppliDis product and its derivatives. He plays a part in the day-to-day running of various Systancia departments.

Christophe Maranzana – Chief Executive Officer
Christophe Maranzana holds an engineering school qualification in information technology and a diploma in company management. He has more than ten years' auditing experience with large groups (KPMG, Crédit Agricole), where he acquired expertise in managing companies and overseeing their running. He joined Systancia in 2004, and having laid the foundations for the company's financial success, he devotes his efforts in particular to the international expansion of the company.

Emmanuel Theotime – Director, Research and Development
Emmanuel Theotime holds an engineering school qualification in information technology. He was one of the chief architects of the AppliDis product, and has overseen its development since the very beginning. He is responsible for Research and Development. An expert in development projects related to the Windows environment, Emmanuel is fully conversant with its underlying technologies, and with the C++ programming language. His achievements include aligning all of Systancia's development work with the firm's industrial strategy.

Rémi Gamel – Director i/c Partners
Rémi Gamel, a graduate of the Ecole de Commerce, joined the Systancia team in 1999 after a successful spell with a software publisher in the United States. Rémi is in charge of sales and marketing strategy towards partners in France and abroad.  Rémi is fully conversant with the Systancia product, for which he was one of the first sellers - building a network of seventy qualified partners in France and abroad.

Directors and operational managers

Adrien Porcheron – Chief Executive Officer, dotgreen
Adrien holds qualifications from the Management School of Lyon, among others. Since 2000 he has been working in service and consultancy companies, and specifically in the domain of virtualization and systems and networks. From 2000 to 2003, he held a consultancy post with T-Systems before joining ICT in early 2004, initially as a pre-sales manager but later as Assistant Technical Director, in which post he was responsible for the engineering division and consultancy for systems, networks and telecommunications. He joined Systancia in 2009 and is responsible in particular for its dotgreen subsidiary, dedicated to green IT. Along with Christophe Corne, Pénélope Guy and James Pavia, he is a co-author of the first publication on green IT.
  
Pierre Renard – Sales manager, Large Accounts
Having participated in the commercial development of Business Objects, Pierre held a position with the US software publisher Citrix, the world leader in centralized application delivery, where he was responsible for managing large accounts for seven years. Since 2009, Pierre has been the Large Accounts sales manager and heads up a team focused on the sale of the product to Europe's 2500 top accounts in the industrial, service and public sectors.

Christophe Bichaut - Director i/c Production
Christophe spent eight years with Citrix EMEA in Dublin running a part of its technical support team, with responsibility for several dozen technical engineers addressing questions of all levels of complexity regarding application virtualization, including in particular international accounts with several tens of thousands of users. Since 2009, he has been responsible at Systancia for the entire production division, which covers all teams working in support and development (with the exception of R&D).

 Marion Gravot – Manager of product marketing and communication
At NEC, Marion was responsible for expanding the firm's new "thin client" business in partnership with NEC France's R&D teams. As part of her brief as head of marketing, she assisted in the commercial development of this business area, targeting resellers and end clients. Having been hired by Systancia as Marketing and Communication Manager, she now devises the company's marketing strategy and oversees its implementation. Along with Christophe Corne, her daily work includes providing input into the company's communication initiatives. 

Andy Boyle - UK Sales Manager
With over 20 years experience in the IT industry, Andy joins Systancia after spending the last 10 years helping to establish US and European thin client and virtualisation software start-ups in the UK and EMEA market. With successful launches of Netier (Acquired by Wyse Technology in 2001), Igel Technology and Appstream (Acquired by Symantec in 2008) Andy brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the sale and support of application and desktop virtualisation solutions.

Supervisory Board

Emmanuel Thiry – Chairman of Supervisory Board
Trained as a chartered accountant, Emmanuel worked in an auditing firm before continuing his career with a leading firm in with building works, followed by a global technology leader.
 
Hervé Rucklin – Vice-Chairman of Supervisory Board
Trained as an engineer, Hervé is a recognized specialist in electrical engineering in the industrial sector. He exercises these skills through a variety of responsibilities with LENZE, a leading firm in industrial electronic engineering and information technology services.
 
Jean-Michel Pimont - Member of Supervisory Board
Jean-Michel (Ecole Polytechnique 79) has a history of entrepreneurial activity. Having been in charge of new development strategies for the Thomson-Thales group, he co-founded Mimétics, a software development company, in 1998, and sold it in 1998. He then founded PurpleEyes, a patent assessment company. He became Director i/c Development for Devoteam Consulting, which he left to join A Plus Finance as an Associate in July 2005.