Success for the 1st EOS Annual Conference

The EOS 1st annual conference which was held on November 30th 2009 in Sophia Antipolis was a success. The conference addressed the issues of financing global companies, highlighting the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and experiences were shared by both investors and global entrepreneurs.


The very international conference gathered around 75 participants from several countries: Ireland, UK, Finland, Spain, US, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, France…

The participating companies had the opportunity to show their products and services to potential investors and partners, but also the possibility to do a 10 minute elevator pitch in front of a international investor panel with the audience voting.

13 companies pitched to the jury and the end of the day results were as follow:

-Best Presentation: MySites
-Most Investible company: 1: Radisens  Diagnostics ,
                                             2: VoiceSage
-Most International company: Fertility Focus
-Price from the public: SimplySim


The whole EOS team would like to thank the following people and companies for their contribution to the success of this event:

-First of all the pitching companies for their hard work, excellent presentations and highly innovative products:

Robert Milnes from Fertility Focus, Michael James from Fertility Innovations, Olivier Verneau from Idey, Philippe Bessaguet from iQsim, Colin Telfer from Lee Oncology, Pierre Benaros from Marcus Stern Armateurs, Guillermo Ortega from Metryc, Ramine Darabiha from MySites, Jerry O’Brien from Radisens Diagostics, Nicolas Dalmasso from SimplySim, Geneviève Flaven from Style Vision, Sean Dowling and Mark Oppermann from VoiceSage and Christophe core and Sophie Fechoz-Trouillat from Wyvern

And the speakers for their insights on the international investment environment:

-Candace Johnson, Succès Europe
-Brigitte Baumann, President of EBAN (European Business Angels Network)
-Simon Harris, CEO of Quotient Diagnostics
-Charles Garvey, CEO of NitroSell
-Didier Cassini, CEO of Opio Color
-Jan Christiansen, Partner of Frost & Sullivan
-Ségolène Pin-Monsaingeon, Manager of Team Cote d’Azur
-Jean-Paul Ortelli, Sophia Business Angels
-Julia Haston, Sophia Business Angels
And all the participants!

Please find some of the presentations here to download :
-Charles Garvey : EOS_CGarvey_2009_11_30.ppt
-Simon Harris : EOS_HSimon_2009_11_30.ppt
-Brigitte Baumann : EOS_BBaumann_2009_11_30.ppt

Alix de Bressy
CICOM organisation
300 route des Cretes
06560 Valbonne
debressy@cicom.fr
Tél :04 93 00 60 11




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