Stéphane Samson

Stéphane Samson is the Head of Global Automotive Systems at ACOME. Prior to joining ACOME, they were the Chief Commercial Officer France & Benelux at A NOVO from January 2008 to May 2012. During their time at A NOVO, Stéphane closed deals worth 100 k€ to 20 M€ with Orange, Numéricable, Alcatel-Lucent, Safran, SFR, ZTE, UPC, and Samsung. Stéphane was also responsible for the development of the existing business on Set-Top boxes and infrastructures market, as well as the re-organisation of the key accounts management. Stéphane created and recruited a commercial team during their time at A NOVO.

From January 2004 to December 2008, Stéphane was an Account Manager at PROSODIE. In this role, they were responsible for defining and implementing sales strategy to expand sales at current customers, prospecting prospects to turn them into clients, maintaining a high profile Prosodie presence to generate needs and deals, delivering accurate sales forecast, and treating deals from 100 k€ to 10 M€ (on a multi-year roll-out plan).

Prior to their time at PROSODIE, Stéphane founded and served as the CEO of ECONOMIZ from June 2000 to December 2003. Before ECONOMIZ, Stéphane worked as a Consultant at Arthur Andersen from March 1999 to June 2000.

Stéphane Samson graduated from the Ecole spéciale des Travaux publics, du Bâtiment et de l'Industrie with a master's degree in civil engineering.

Stéphane Samson reports to Jacques De Heere, CEO. They work with Alban Eraclas - Director of Performance, Quality & CSR, Aurélien Bergonzo - Director of Research, Innovation, Technology & Foresight, and Nathalie Lascaux - Director of Communications.