Scaleway

Damien Lucas, a graduate of Centrale Supélec, is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the French Tech ecosystem.

He began his career in the software industry by contributing to the creation of VLC Media Player before co-founding Anevia, a company specializing in video streaming software solutions.

As a driving force in business development and guardian of the product vision, Damien has led significant projects, including the establishment of international subsidiaries, consolidation operations, and initial public offerings. His leadership has been particularly impactful in shaping product strategy and managing software development teams, skillfully orchestrating the transition to the cloud ecosystem.

Currently serving as the CEO of Scaleway, Damien Lucas instills his vision firmly focused on innovation, shaping the future of the company both in the cloud realm and as a facilitator for the emergence of artificial intelligence applications in Europe.

Albane Bruyas, COO As Chief Operating Officer at Scaleway, Albane is responsible for the global operations of the company. She manages the supply & hardware chain of the 5 data centers, working in a variety of areas from R&D to fleet maintenance and CSR.

Previously, Albane rose through the ranks of the luxury sector where she learned rigor and excellence, key values for companies in this market. She demonstrates her skills as an inspirational leader by encouraging others to take action and lever business through giving motivational speeches based on grounded financial information.

Respected as a credible voice in decision making, finding strategic partners, and establishing governance boundaries, she leads by example, always doing her best and encouraging others to do the same as a mentor and advisor at Startup Weekend Women, and other events. The philosophy she lives by? A king without entertainment is a man full of misery.

Doreen Pernel, a graduate from the Business School of Sydney, is an Executive Revenue Leader with experience Internationally and in France. She began her career in the FinTech industry at Bloomberg in London and then in New York before working in other different Tech companies such as Meta and Dataiku.

Always looking for new client challenges and glad to support customers via a solution-oriented mindset and high level of expertise!

Her leadership has been particularly impactful in shaping Go To Market strategy and managing Sales teams across the full Sales Cycle in the Cloud and SaaS environment.
Currently serving as the Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Scaleway, Doreen Pernel drives revenue strategies, aligns departments for growth, and oversees sales operations, all while being metrics-drive

Head of Product management, Diane is responsible for the cross-functional services used by all Scaleway customers: authentication system, account management since its creation, permissions management, billing, global navigation, etc.

Within a Product organization of more than twenty Squads, she is responsible for the product strategy of her tribe from the validation of the roadmap to the analysis of performance indicators.

She is convinced that good communication, sharing at the heart of the company the knowledge of our users and a good orchestration of collective intelligence are key for the organization to progress and achieve its objectives.

A prominent figure in the open source world, Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a renowned engineer and president of the non-profit organization VideoLAN. As president and lead developer of the widely used VLC media player, he has also contributed to the development of the open source video format FFmpeg.

Before joining Scaleway, he held key leadership roles, including CTO of Shadow and VP of Engineering at Veepee/Vente-Privée/Privalia.

As Scaleway’s CTO, Jean-Baptiste oversees the development of a new generation of sovereign cloud and AI solutions, bringing his expertise and passion to drive technological innovation in Europe.

Engineer by training, Etienne has spent over ten years growing within the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem, evolving from developer to CTO, and now Head of Engineering. He's been through acceleration phases, pivots, product overhauls, team structuring, and aligning tech, product, and business.

Today at Scaleway, he's focused on building a robust engineering organization, one that delivers with ambition, precision, and purpose. His vision: to create an environment where teams grow alongside the company, combining technical excellence, product pragmatism, and long-term impact. Because building a sustainable, sovereign European cloud takes more than just rigor, it takes passion too. "Nothing lasting is ever built without vision — or without the right people to bring it to life."

Louis Bouchard is a boomerang Scaler who has been working at Scaleway for many years now. After 20 years in various customer support organizations he reoriented his career toward development and DevOps activities. He is now in charge of providing OS images for cloud products. He also works on integrating the various types of OS and application images used in Scaleway in an integrated ecosystem.

Louis is highly appreciated for his kindness, his quick sense of humour, his relevant technical insights and his love of the French countryside.

Louis est très apprécié pour sa bienveillance, son sens de l’humour vif, la pertinence de ses analyses techniques… et son amour pour la campagne française.