Anne Roos-Weil, Founder and CEO

Anne, 28, is the co-founder and Secretary of Pesinet. She currently leads the organization on a full-time basis thanks to a sponsorship of Ashoka, an international social entrepreneurs’ fellowship program.

After working on social issues in NGOs and international organizations (education, migration), she spent three years at Alcatel-Lucent, coordinating and managing sustainability projects. She then worked as Corporate Engagement Manager at The Environment Council, a UK charity specialized in facilitating dialogue and engagement on sustainability, where she has been trained on facilitation techniques. She has developed strong project and human management skills, especially in cross-cultural contexts.

She has been central to the launching and development of Pesinet that she led to the international finals of the Global Social Venture Competition in Berkeley in 2009.

Anne holds  a Master of Public Administration from Sciences-Po Paris and an ESSEC MBA with a major in social entrepreneurship.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE : social entrepreneurship, management, development, facilitation

Pierre Carpentier, Founder and Chairman

Pierre, 39, has been working for 10 years on development-related projects in Africa with experience in funding and economical aspects of development.

After a few years’ experience in consulting positions, he started as investment officer at Afrique Initiatives SA, where he was responsible for identifying participation opportunities and for managing capital holding in Senegal, Mali, Burkina, Niger, Madagascar. He then set-up his own company, Cap Juby, a company specializing in development aid project design, especially public-private partnerships, and evaluation of cooperation programs and held the position of Associate Director.

A graduate of engineering and management schools, he has been working since 2006 as Investment Officer for “Investisseurs et Partenaires pour le Développement”, a private equity company investing in SMEs and micro-financing institutions in Africa.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: international development, venture capital and private equity

Antoine de Clerck, Founder and Treasurer

Antoine de Clerck started its career at France Télécom in 2000 in the US R&D labs of the Silicon Valley, as a business analyst on the mobile Internet and e-commerce markets. In 2002, he joined the Long Distance Network Division of the company in France as a marketing product manager, where he designed a portfolio of innovative services for international operators’ interconnections. As of 2005, he was project manager at the Home Division of France Telecom, in charge of the development of broadband Internet services in the emerging markets. In particular, he initiated the launch of the Livebox and Voice over IP mutualised services in the subsidiaries of the Africa, Middle-East and Asia area.

Antoine’s work is oriented towards the design and management of specific innovation tailored for the emerging markets and low income populations. Since October 2007, Antoine has been the VP Marketing of Orange Mali, based in Bamako, Mali. Antoine de Clerck is co-founder and Treasurer of Pesinet. He is also the representative of Pesinet in Mali.

Antoine is a graduate in telecom engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, and an MBA graduate of HEC Paris. Antoine is 36, he’s the father of three.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: marketing, telecommunications

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Dr. Line Kleinebreil

Doctor Line Kleinebreil is a primary care physician with a special interest in diabetes and chronic diseases who is also a master of mathematics.  She has been involved for many years as a board member on a number of the major French patient associations for both adults and children and is an active member of the World Health Organisation.

Dr Kleinebreil is a member of the faculty of the Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute. She is Secretary of UNFM (Université Numérique Francophone Mondiale), which develops training programs for primary care personnel in Africa and is a member of the Network of Telemedicine in Francophone Africa RAFT.

Line has been working at public hospitals in Paris, developing strategies for medical records and using IT as an educational tool for both patients and professionals, and headed the telemedicine unit at Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris.

Line brings to the team her experience of health and training programs, her expertise in healthcare and her connections with a broad range of health organization worldwide.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Healthcare, Medical Informatics, Africa

Jean-Claude Charlet

An eclectic and fervent entrepreneur with both a literary and business background, Jean-Claude is a graduate from ESSEC Business School (1989), the Sorbonne University (1993) and holds an MBA from Stanford University (1998).

Following an initial experience in humanitarian work in Cambodia, Jean-Claude then worked for Le Seuil and Hachette publishers. In the late 90s, he participated in the development of one of the first on-line French travel agencies (anyway.com), after which he directed an on-line music sales start-up company financed by Bernard Arnault (mzz.com). In 2003, he left the internet to launch a new concept in the retail business and created a modern herbalist shop, “Le Carré des Simples” which he continues to develop actively.

Along with his endeavours as an entrepreneur, he created the CPI (Creating Innovative products) course, a joint academic program of leading engineering, business and design schools in France which focuses on demonstrating through 6-months work by students on companies’ projects how innovation can be a vector of cross-disciplinary approaches, open-mindedness, progress and societal utility.

Jean-Claude brings to the team his entrepreneurial experience, his creativity, his ability to think “out of the box” to help a project grow.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Innovation, Entrpreneurship

Patrick Sevaistre

Patrick Sevaistre began his career at the CNPF (Conseil National du Patronat Français) as Africa representative, after which he joined the Tetra Pak Group as Director for Francophone Africa.

After serving as Chief Administrator for private sector development in Africa at the OECD and then as manager of the European program for promoting investment in Southern Africa (SADC) in Brussels, Patrick served as Director-General of Afrique Initiatives SA, an investment and African entrepreneurial support firm created and chaired by Michel Rocard.

He is currently a consultant specialized in private sector development in Africa and associate researcher at the Thomas More Institute.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Development economics, Africa