Cap Digital, the Parisian business cluster for digital content and services, is a non-profit organization under the French Loi 1901. It is steered by both a Board of Directors and an Executive Board. We are trusted by over 650 valued members: 570 innovative SMEs, 20 major corporations, 50 institutions of higher education and 10 capital investors, which together represent 170 research labs.

Since its creation in 2006, Cap Digital has received 1250 project submissions and accredited 540 of them. 350 have received funding, accounting for a total € 650M, of which € 300M are public funds. In 2009, thanks to the “Plan filière regional”, more than 60 companies have benefited from workshops on how to expand their activities and over 40 have taken part in international delegations headed by Cap Digital.

In light of our rapid growth over the past year, we have updated our structure of governance. Our sector-specific expertise is managed through an organization of Thematic Commissions, Domain Communities, and experts. This structure is permeable and adaptive. A member of a commission can also be a member of a community and a Cap Digital expert. This new structure aims to multiply exchanges between the Domain Communities and make room for future evolutions.

Governance

President: Henri Verdier, CEO Aliscans

Patrick Cocquet is the CEO of Cap Digital.

Vice Presidents:
* Francis Jutand, Institut TELECOM
* Olivier Muron, FRANCE TELECOM

Treasurer: Olivier Muron, FRANCE TELECOM

The Board of Directors is composed of 27 administrators (major companies, SMEs, public structures, local authorities), elected by the members of Cap Digital.

The Members of the Board (in alphabetical order):

Pascal Binczak, President,  Université Paris 8 // Frédéric Boutissou, Representative of Silicon Sentier, Erenis // Daniel Canepa, Regional Prefect, Prefecture of Ile-de-France // Bernard Chaussegros, Executive Vice President, SFP Euromedia // Thierry De Segonzac, President, FICAM // Stéphane Distinguin, Manager, FaberNovel // Pierre Dutilleul,  Executive President, EDITIS // Marko Erman, Research & Technology Manager, THALES Communication // Gérard Eude, Vice President, Val-de-Marne General Council // Jean-Jacques Gras, MOTOROLA SAS // Boris Hertzog, SPFA representative, Timoon Animation // Emmanuel Hoog, President, INA //Didier Huck, Vice President, THOMSON // Eric Julien, Hachette-Livre // Jean-Marc Labat, IT professor, Director of UTES – Université Pierre et Marie Curie // Francine Levy, Director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière // Marc Lipinski, Vice President, Ile-de-France Regional Council // Patrice Magnard, CEO, Maxicours // Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, Officer of Innovation, Research, and Universities, Paris General Council // Philippe Lachaud, Financial Controller, XEROX ResearchCenter Europe // Simon Monneret, Program Director, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie // Adeline Nazarenko, Research Team Manager for “Representation of Natural Knowledge and Language” – Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) // Eric Perrin Pelletier, Director Bell Labs France, Alcatel-Lucent // Gilbert Roger, First Vice-President,  Seine-Saint-Denis General Council // Vanessa Sarron, Economic Development Officer, Val d’Oise General Council // Thierry Solere, Vice President for the Economy, Hauts-de-Seine General Council // Jean-Pierre Spilbauer, Bry Sur Marne City Hall, Val-de-Marne General Council // Stéphanie Van Duin, Business Development Director, Hachette Livre // Antoine Villette, Director, Darkworks.

The Executive Board is composed of 12 members, appointed by the Board of Directors.

There are over 80 experts within the 9 thematic commissions: Image Sound and Interactivity, Video Games, Knowledge Engineering, Culture, Press, and Media, e-Education, Collaborative Technology & Intelligence (ICT), Mobile Lifestyle & Services, Robotics and Communicating Objects, and Digital Design.