Our Board of Directors | Prodware Group

Philippe Bouaziz

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Philippe Bouaziz is the founder and Chairman of the Board of the company. Philippe started out working for Texas Instruments in Europe in the R&D and Support departments. He later moved on to head the consulting & technical activities of a software vendor before unleashing his entrepreneurial skills and founding Prodware in 1989.

Philippe, often dubbed, Serial Entrepreneur, is known for his incredible passion and willpower bringing together talented people around ambitious projects. Philippe’s seasoned expertise and experience in software and his incisive appreciation and flair for innovative initiatives and new technologies has him working on many fronts.

Whether creating and launching startup programs or developing new business ideas, Philippe’s creative talent and gung-ho attitude is an undeniable boon to Prodware.

Alain Conrard

GROUP CEO

“Digital transformation is a massive opportunity for companies that need to rethink and reinvent the way they do business”

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Alain Conrard is the Managing Director and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Prodware SA since 2005.

An HEC Executive graduate and recipient of IT and Business Administration degrees (IAE), Alain boasts a solid experience holding various positions in consulting firms, service companies as well as in the software industry. He joined Prodware as Group Managing Director in 2003.

His collaborative leadership style and outside-the-box mindset elicit that required synergy to help drive Prodware’s ambitious growth strategy. Prodware has become the undisputed digital transformation enabler for mid-size companies and subsidiaries of large groups.

Passionate about new technologies, Alain has recently written a book called “Taking the Plunge! A Different Take on Innovation” and actively takes part in various industry initiatives for the mid size market that center around innovation. He is notably President of the Commission on Digital Strategies of the METI (professional gild for mid-size companies) and Vice President of the ETI Club (association of French mid-market companies) in charge of Innovation programs in R&D.

Stéphane Conrard

DEPUTY CEO Finance & Legal Corporate

“Prodware enables organizations to surf the digital wave by generating new revenue and profit streams.”

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Stéphane holds a degree in accounting. Fond of foreign civilizations, he pursued studies in parallel also majoring in oriental civilizations and languages. Stéphane began his professional career in 1993 working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers Audit where he carried out various audits for a period of 3 years.

In 1996, he joined OCA, a prominent consulting firm. In 2001, he created two accounting firms and carried out various missions for Prodware. In 2006, he took over the Administrative and Financial Department of Prodware and became Managing Director and Administrator in 2007 and 2010 respectively.

Stéphane’s extensive experience in financial management significantly helped steer Prodware in driving its ambitious growth strategy.

Léna Conrard

DIRECTOR

“Prodware enables organizations to surf the digital wave by generating new revenue and profit streams.”

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Léna Conrard graduated from the Paris School of Business (ex-ESG Management School) with a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship & Business Development.

She joined Prodware as Innovation Project Manager tasked with developing the portfolio of innovative solution offerings notably in Cyber Security.

Léna is also the Marketing Director of Prodware group. Extremely keen on the world of start-ups and young entrepreneurs, she is actively involved in the 365x program, an incubator for start-ups that develop innovative solutions using disruptive technologies as well as the Escalator, a CSR driven incubator program supported by Prodware, that promotes equal opportunity for all helping young talents with great ideas.

Viviane Neiter

DIRECTOR

“Prodware enables organizations to surf the digital wave by generating new revenue and profit streams.”

Viviane has been an independent administrator since 2010.

Viviane boasts a very eclectic professional track record which is very telling of her appetence to learn more on various subjects touching on social and educational issues.

Viviane holds a degree from NEOMA Business School. She first headed a family business for 23 years before founding NEITER Consulting in 2003, a firm specialized in governance and investor relations. She is actively involved in academia and teaches at several European business schools. She is an active member of several North American Family Business guilds.

Viviane is co-author of several books and sits on three different boards of listed companies. She is actively involved and serves on numerous boards of non-profit organizations.

Jean-Gérard Bouaziz

DIRECTOR

Jean-Gerard Bouaziz has been a board administrator of the company since 1989.

Jean-Gerard Bouaziz is a self-employed professional. His main activities are in the medical field and his areas of interest include medical imaging and speech recognition technologies. He is passionate about art and music.