NextStep - July 31th @ 789 Bar - Le Royal Meridien

Featured Guest : Jean-Luc Bernard, founder & CEO of Astek

Hello everyone, We are in the thick of a hot Shanghai summer, and NextStep is just around the corner. Join us on Tuesday, July 31st at Le Meridien’s 789 from 8pm til 10pm. For the newcomers, NextStep is designed to facilitate the networking of entrepreneurs, lawyer As usual we will be offering drink specials, excellent conversations, and a great featured guest. Our featured guest this week will be Jean-Luc Bernard. Mr. Bernard is the founder and CEO of Astek Group, a company whose 2600 engineers worldwide are involved in high technology projects. His rich experience in technology and telecom is in an invaluable resource to all entrepreneurs. We will see you out on Tuesday for another great evening of discussion and potential business collaboration. Come mingle with our featured guest as well as many other aspiring entrepreneurs at 789. Please see the attached flyers for more details.

Featured Guest : Jean - Luc Bernard

Founder and CEO of Astek

Jean-Luc Bernard, 47, is the founder and CEO of (groupe) astek, a company whose 2600 engineers worldwide are involved in high technology projects Jean-Luc Bernard is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, the highest diploma in this country. He also specialized himself and graduated from Telecom Paris, the french engineer school dedicated to telecommunications engineering.
After a few years spent in Alcatel and France Telecom, he started at 29 from scratch astek in Paris. Jean-Luc Bernard is also chairman of other companies, noticeably internet companies.
Astek is committed in helping its clients to design, develop and integrate cutting edge technology in new products. Major customers of (groupe) astek are Amadeus (woldwide leader of electronic ticketing and global distribution systems), SAFRAN (defence and aeronautics group), FRANCE TELECOM (telecom operator), SNCF (french railways), THALES (defence group), Air France, Schneider, etc. Main competitors of astek are CAP GEMINI, ATOS (in charge of olympic games information systems development in Beijing), ALTRAN, …
Astek spreaded quickly in all major cities of France, and for now a couple of years abroad (11 countries including China, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and a lot of european countries).
In the last three years astek more than doubled its size with the highest organic growth of french market, with in addition about 10 acquisitions.

Venue : 789 Bar @ Royal Méridien

Event Details :

Tuesday the 15th of June.
From 8 to 10 pm @ 789 Nanjing Lu Bar
65/F Le Royal Meridien Hotel.
789 Nanjing East Road.
上海市南京东路789好65楼

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