Witbe

Jean Michel Planche, Chairman and Founder, Witbe.

Jean Michel Planche has over 20 years of Internet experience in technology development, products and business.
 
In 1989, he created his first company, Apysoft, dedicated to software development in an open system.

In 1991, he founded the first Internet operator in France, Oleane, dedicated to the enterprise market. Within 5 years, it became the second largest national IP operator.

In 2000, Jean Michel Planche left FT to create Witbe, which is aimed at addressing the next big picture: Quality of Experience monitoring. Witbe develops new technology responding to the supervision & monitoring challenges in a new IP-convergent world. Its products are used by the tier-one operators worldwide. Its products are used by some of the main operators at worldwide level.

Recognized as an expert on innovation, Jean Michel Planche is active in various organisations to advance internet development and entrepreneurship in France. He also works with the French government on the development of the digital economy and the improvement of the quality of convergent services (internet, telephony, television).
Jean Michel Planche is member of VQEG www.vqeg.org, Video Service Forum www.videoservicesforum.org and , CCRSCE of ARCEP www.arcep.fr, New Generation Internet Fundation www.fing.org, Numeric Economy Association : http://www.associationeconomienumerique.fr/ and French Customer relation association http://www.afrc.org/.