Gilles Babinet
French entrepreneur
Gilles Babinet (born 1967 in Paris) is a French multi-entrepreneur.
He represents France in the Digital Champions group built by the European Union.
He is also co-President of the Conseil National du Numérique, a body advising the French Government on digital matters.
Biography
Babinet dropped out from school at 15 and then graduated his French "Baccalauréat" at the age of 20 as a free candidate.
Career
He has created nine companies since 1989 in various areas of activity:
Escalade Industrie: founded in 1989, his first company, specializes in work-at-height interoperations and had forty employees at the end of its first year.
Absolut Design created with Clément Bataille in 1991, focused on public transportation, including the design of the streetcar of Bordeaux, and the design of the garbage cans of the subway in Paris. In 2000, Babinet sold what had become BETC Design to Euro RSCG.
Musiwave: launched In 2000, as Musiwap, then renamed Musiwave. In 2002, it became the first company in the world to offer "hifi" ringtones, . This very year, the company also offered downloads of CD quality songs using GPRS technology, in a partnership with the English telecommunications company Vodafone. The company finally sold to Openwave, for US$139m in January 2006.
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