Brice Le Blevennec

Brice Le Blevennec (born September 23, 1967 in Versailles 78000, France) is a French entrepreneur, investor, thought leader, futurist and author. He co-founded Ex Machina, Emakina Group, ContactOffice|fr, Tunz, P2P Foundation, Zin.gl, and Objekten Systems.
==Background and education==
Brice was born to parents Danielle Chauvin and François Le Blevennec. His father worked as a NATO official from 1966 to 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. 
Brice studied at the Athénée Adolphe Max, Brussels 1980–1988. In 1982 he participated in a writing workshop where his texts got published in a book.Atelier d'écriture 1982–1983 / Jacques Cels He has spent a year studying typography and graphism at La Cambre, school of visual arts.
==Business career==
===Early career===
In 1991, at age 23, Brice founded the company Ex Machina, specialising in graphic design and multimedia application development. One of Ex Machina first projects was the 1996 Le mystère Magritte, Ex Machina, Pierre Sterckx, Michel Bries, Pierre Sterckx, Michel Bries, Jean-Philippe Duboscq, Alain Deboisieux, Christian Cahet, Catherine Conet, Jacques Vialat (1996) featuring a compilation of René Magritte’s well-known artworks.
From 1996 to 2004, Brice ran a weekly radio show that became a TV show CyberCafé, broadcast on RTBF.
In 1998, Brice Le Blevennec, Patrick De Schutter, and Arnaud Huret founded ContactOffice|fr. ContactOffice|fr’s encrypted email service Mailfence is an email encryption service that offers OpenPGP-based end-to-end encryption and digital signatures. 
===Emakina Group===
Emakina Group was founded in 2001 as a merger of company Ex Machina, founded by Brice, and an e-business agency Emalaya founded by Denis Steisel in 1998. At the time of the merger, the new company counted 35 employees. By 2021, Emakina Group employee count grew to 1100, with company presence spreading across Central and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and North America. At that time, Brice Le Blevennec was a chairperson and CEO. 
In August 2021, Brice confirmed the voluntary takeover bid on Emakina Group filed by EPAM Systems. In 2022, Brice stopped being the CEO of Emakina Group and remained as the CVO.
===Other business endeavours===
After obtaining the grant for the patent they applied for, Brice Le Blevennec, Gregoire de Streel, Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen, and other investors founded Tunz in 2007. Tunz was an e-money institution developing mobile payment solutions. Brice suggested that the Tunz SMS mobile payment service built based on the patent would make it possible to buy a digital asset as a player in World of Warcraft, Second Life, or to pay for a PS3 video game. Tunz got acquired by Ogone in 2012, and Ingenico acquired Ogone a year later.
In 2007, Brice Le Blevennec, Michel Bauwens and James Burke founded the P2P Foundation. P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
In 2011, Brice co-founded an online dating service Zin.gl. The company has raised $600,000 from angel investors, including Fred Destin from Atlas Venture. 
The same year, Brice co-founded Objekten Systems, a company offering high quality furniture made in Europe.
===Latest business endeavours===
In 2023, Brice launched a new project Zoetrope, an AI-powered digital art frame.
The same year, as a member of the Belgian angel investor network BeAngels, Brice has invested in Satochip, a start-up providing secure hardware solutions for cryptocurrency and digital asset storage, management and exchange.
==Patents==
In 2006, Brice Le Blevennec, Gregoire de Streel, and Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen got the patent application grant for the electronic payment system for electronic purses. The method involved receiving an electronic message containing financial transaction instructions accompanied by an identification code of the user's terminal via an electronic message server. The electronic purse associated with the identification code of the terminal could then be searched in a database. Brice Le Blévennec, Gregoire de Streel, Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen (2006) Patent Grant Number: 1016964, Patent Publication Number: BE-1016964-A3, Patent Application Number: BE-200600050-A, CPC Class: G06 
==Publications==
In 2021, Brice published the book Visions of a better world. EAN:9782390251873, Publisher:RACINE EAN:9782390251880, Publisher:RACINE The book has the contributions of approximately 50 experts from the Emakina Group and takes a scientific approach to predict what the world will look like in 2051.
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