Olivier HersentFounder

France - Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

"Getting things to work (better)" is a passion that started early repairing toys and building electronic circuits, and continued through my professional life working on communication technologies, with a focus on IP based networks.
With the startup experience as founder of NetCentrex , I discovered that 'getting people to build something together' was even more rewarding... and more challenging.
Any project which aims at improving the way we live or work, supported by hard working, ambitious, crazy (not too much), fun and caring people will make me want to be part of it. I invest in several start-ups and also my own projects. I also support the Non-Profit organization "Socracy", which tries to bring some of the innovations of social networks to the world of politics (that's perhaps a bit too crazy !).

Specialties: * Smart grids (flexibility management), Electric Vehicles.
* M2M (Cellular, low power RF short and long range, ETSI M2M, OneM2M)
* VoIP systems (Softswitch, Voice and Video Media servers and their applications for announcements, voicemail, lawful interception, Session Border Controllers, NAT traversal...) used for transit or residential/IP based Centrex or trunking solutions.
Value Added Services for mobile networks (SMS/MMS, IM, Ringback tones...).
Back-end systems for telecommunication services, activation, provisioning, rating and charging.