Sébastien Bachollet
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| Country: | France |
| Email: | sebastien.bachollet [at] isoc.fr |
| LinkedIn: |  [Sebastien Bachollet Sébastien Bachollet]
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| Twitter: |  @SebBach
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Sébastien Bachollet is a French citizen and resident of Versailles.
At a professional level, Sébastien is the founding CEO of BBS International Consulting, trading since June 2004, which handles consultancy in the Information Systems arena with a particular emphasis on Internet technologies.
Bachollet was elected to the ICANN Board of Directors as the At-Large selected Board Member, he first took up this position at ICANN's 2010 Cartegna conference.[1]
He participates in various projects for new gTLDs.[2]
Career History edit
Bachollet began his career with Air Inter, then moved to work with SNCF (French National Railways) which led to important technological and organizational projects with information systems. Given this experience, he launched and accompanied the development of CIO networks at the national level, within CIGREF, and at the European level, with EuroCio. He was responsible for strategic actions for development and networking
Internet Engagement edit
Sébastien has been deeply involved in the Internet world since 1994 with his SNCF (French National Railways) experience, where he launched www.sncf.fr [2], which was the first e-business web site in France. He was also involved in developing a comprehensive programme to allow employees to be connected and to use Internet technologies.
During the 2000–2003 period, Sébastien was Deputy General Manager of CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises) and he has represented CIGREF and business users in the Internet Governance field at all levels: France, Europe and world-wide. CIGREF has been involved as a member of the Business Constituency since ICANN's beginning. Sébastien participates, in a personal capacity, on the ICANN New TLDs Evaluation Process Planning Task Force and to the Assistance Group of the Evaluation and Reform Committee for the formation of the ccNSO.
IGENI and ICANN Meetings edit
Sébastien works actively with Olivier Iteanu in setting up and holding the European Global Event on Domain Names and address systems, now known as EGENI Europe held in Paris in June or July each year since 2002 with an audience of more than 250 participants. The event is organized by ISOC France with the help of CIGREF, Medef, and CCIP. In 2006, with ISOC Morocco, he launched EGENI Africa.
In 2007, Sébastien suggested the idea of an ALS Summit during the Lisbon ICANN meeting; the Summit finally took place at the Mexico ICANN meeting in 2009.[3]
In 2008, the meeting was held in conjunction with the ICANN meeting;[4]Sébastien lead the local team for the organization of the ICANN meeting in Paris in 2008, they with 1700 participants.[5]
ISOC France edit
- Member since 2001
- Board member 2003 – 2009
- Chair 2004 – 2009
- Honorary President since 2009
Community Participation edit
Sebastien Bachollet's community engagement goes beyond his work with ISOC, IGENI and ICANN, his other volunteer activities include:
- More than 20 years spent as a board member of UCPA (National Union of Outdoors Sports Centers)[6]
- Parents’ federation of pupils - FCPE.
- Board member of FING 2004 – 2009
- Advisor for Information letter Sociétés de l’Information – www.societesdelinformation.ne
- Elected European Internet users representative since May 2007 – ALAC vice-chair (At-Large Advisory Committee) since 2008[7]