Gilles Babinet

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 was finally sold to Openwave for US$139m in January 2006. In December 2007, Openwave sold it to Microsoft.

Captain Dash: a product for the automatic aggregation and synchronization of all kinds of business data. Its SaaS solution, mixing data visualization, design, and mobile devices, gives marketers a dashboard to visualize, evaluate, and correlate data flows from their own ERP and external data such as the weather, air quality, car traffic, vacation periods, holy days, Google trends, political elections, TV audience, and the like.

Eyeka is a free website with more than 200,000 consumers in 91 countries which offers a platform for creative contests. To date, it has launched more than 450 contests with €1,300,000 in prizes Its objective is to connect talent with leading brands to imagine new concepts, invent better products and co-create engaging content.

MXP4 develops interactive music solutions that create revenue opportunities for the music, media and marketing industries. It creates a video game-like environment where consumers can play with the music.

Digibonushas been helping brands build relationships with their fans since 2009 through social media experiences such as polls, prize draws, photo contests, quizzes, and more.

Nowadays, Babinet has stepped down from the management of his other firms to concentrate on his role as executive chairman of Captain Dash.

Along with this position, he is also a non-executive director at LinkByNet, a cloud service company as well as member of the Strategic advisory board of EY France.

From 2002 until 2010, Babinet was also at the board of administrators of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, an international Association promoting leisure services on mobiles.

Mr. Babinet is also an active member of the association 100 000 entrepreneurs.