We are pleased to announce the opening of Kachingle Europe, and the hiring of Yves Huin as its General Manager and Director.

Yves has very deep international business development experience for both US and European software, computer services, internet and communications companies. He also has expertise in business engineering and internet business models, international trade, and multi cultural project management. He earned his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon, and his MBA from IAE Paris. He worked for many years for British Petroleum (BP) and has consulted for France Telecom, Oracle, NTT, EDF, Alstom, ABB, Siemens, Thomson, and the European Union. He has also served as a Foreign Trade Advisor for the French Government.

Yves has been a colleague and friend of Cynthia Typaldos (Kachingle’s founder) for more than 15 years. He was a business consultant for her first internet startup, GolfWeb, in 1995, and a teaching colleague of hers in the late ’90s at UC Berkeley Extension about business models. He served as a sounding board for Cynthia in 2004 when she first conceived of Kachingle.

Yves currently spends about two-thirds of his time in Paris, and one-third in the U.S. He speaks English, French and Romanian.

His role at Kachingle will be to represent Kachingle to the European press, attend relevant journalism and internet content business conferences in Europe, represent Kachingle in business development meetings with content providers/partners, and keep us informed of trends and opportunities in Europe.

He can be reached at Yves(dot)Huin at Kachingle(dot)com.