Bruno Vanryb

Bruno Vanryb is a French entrepreneur born in 1957.

Biography

Bruno Vanryb is a French entrepreneur, former sound engineer and tech journalist (SVM, Micro- systems and Micro Soft particular), and author of twelve books on micro-computer. In 1984, he cofounded with Roger Politis, BVRP, which became Avanquest, a leading software publishers in France and around the world. In January 2014, it counted 530 employees in 7 countries. One of the flagship products of the company was a fax software named WinFax. He is still the Executive Chairman of Avanquest. He participated with Denis Payre in the foundation of an association called Croissance Plus, which supports and ensures awareness of growing companies in France, association he chaired between 1998 and 2000. From 2002-2005 Bruno Vanryb was President of Middlenext, an association whose members are medium-sized companies, listed on Euronext, Paris stock exchance ; he still is honorary president. On 12 July 2007, Bruno Vanryb was appointed to the Board of Directors of Euronext Paris. Since July 9, 2010, Bruno Vanryb is also vice-president of Syntec Numérique, which represents 1,100 member companies and groups, among them 50% are software companies Between April 2011 and July 2012, he was also a member and vice-president of the Conseil National du Numérique, a consultative group created by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to advise him on digital issues.

External links

• Official website (French)