Philippe Laval Bio

A renowned expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Philippe’s extensive entrepreneurial career has centered around intelligent systems and software. Prior to joining Jolt Capital, Philippe was the CEO & co-founder of Evercontact, the service that keeps your address book and CRM automatically up-to-date. Before Evercontact, he founded and led Sinequa as CEO, a Gartner and Forrester leader in Big Data Search. Philippe remains a board member of Sinequa, and is also currently a Director of both Ooreka and Predictice. Philippe holds a PhD in AI/Natural Language Processing (NLP) from Paris-Diderot University and a Software Engineering degree from Telecom ParisTech. In addition, Philippe holds 2 US Patents in NLP (i & ii). A keen kitesurfer in his spare time, Philippe has also written a book on Management within the context of Game of Thrones, “Winter is NOT coming“. (First Edition, 2016)