Christophe Callaud

Current

Chief of Staff Europe, Middle-East India and Africa at Apple Europe

Past

Assistant Vice-President at Apple Europe
Public Relation Manager Europe at Apple Computer Europe
Deputy Chief Editor at Micro Hebdo (Groupe Tests)

Senior Editor - Software and Internet at L'Ordinateur Individuel (Groupe Tests)
Editor at L'Ordinateur individuel
Software Engineer at Thales

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Education

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris
ISEN Institut Supérieur d'Electronique et du Numérique

Connections

300 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Christophe Callaud’s Experience

Chief of Staff Europe, Middle-East India and Africa

Apple Europe

(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2009 — Present (4 months)
Assistant Vice-President

Apple Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2006 — October 2009 (3 years 1 month)

- Enlarge the EMEA General Manager's bandwidth to support a fast growing and complex business
- Enhance Apple EMEA management systems (weekly reporting, management forums actions list monitoring, and quarterly business reviews)
- Work on an ad hoc basis on strategic or corporate projects
Public Relation Manager Europe

Apple Computer Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

April 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 6 months)

Supporting the Corporate Communication director, managed Corporate Public Relations at European level, managed pan-European press events and built new PR systems and reporting tools for the european PR team.
Deputy Chief Editor

Micro Hebdo (Groupe Tests)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

May 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 8 months)

Number one French Computer magazine, 800,000 readers per issue
- Co-founder of the magazine, involved in the magazine’s Editorial Marketing (refined the magazine’s marketing target, analyzed computer industry development, assessed computer usage trends…)
- Managed a team of 10 people including 4 freelance journalists. Responsible for the quality of 14 pages per week
- Computer Industry and Technology expert for the magazine
- Evaluated Hardware and Software. Worked with the largest independent Computer testing center in Europe

In parallel, acted as Spokesman for Micro Hebdo on French radio station Europe 1 (September 2000 – June 2002)
- Co-founder and co-presenter of Europe.net, 45 minute long weekly program on new technologies
- Popularized computer and telecom related technologies, answered listeners questions concerning computers
Senior Editor - Software and Internet

L'Ordinateur Individuel (Groupe Tests)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

January 1997 — April 2000 (3 years 4 months)

Monthly magazine, 1,200,000 readers per issue
- Member of the team that switched the magazine from a professional to a consumer focus (+50% readers in 3 years)
- Spokesman for the magazine on BFM (radio station) for one year
Editor

L'Ordinateur individuel

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

August 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 5 months)
Software Engineer

Thales

(Defense & Space industry)

July 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 2 months)

Wrote real-time software for combat aircrafts (Windows and Unix OS, C and C++ languages).
Managed an Artificial Intelligence project.

Christophe Callaud’s Education

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris

MBA , Management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy... , 2003 — 2003

Graduated Salutatorian (2nd best student that year)
ISEN Institut Supérieur d'Electronique et du Numérique

Engineering degree , Advanced Computer Science , 1991 — 1994