Remi Forest

Head of Worldwide Sales Engineering

Ververica

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Leading a global team of Sales Engineers dedicated to revolutionize stream processing with Apache Flink®.

Senior Manager - Solutions Engineering - Southern EMEA

Confluent

Jan 2022 - Apr 2025 (3 years 4 months)

Driving innovation and strategic growth across the Southern EMEA region by leading a high-performing solutions engineering team. Focused on driving the adoption of event streaming platforms to transform businesses, enabling clients to harness the power of real-time data while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within the team.

Solutions Engineering Manager - Southern EMEA

Confluent

Apr 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 9 months)

Senior Solutions Engineer

Confluent

Jul 2019 - Apr 2020 (10 months)

Solutions Engineering Leader (acquired by HPE)

MapR Technologies

Feb 2019 - Jun 2019 (5 months)

Leading an amazing team of Solutions Engineers. Focus on : - recruiting - technical selling - partner enablement

Senior Solutions Engineer

MapR Technologies

Jun 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 8 months)

MapR provides a next-generation data platform for AI and analytics. MapR effectively handles the diversity of data types, data access, and ecosystem tools needed to manage data as an enterprise resource regardless of the underlying infrastructure or location. Act as the primary technical resource for supporting the Sales team in developing existing and new customers via product demonstration, RFP response, Proofs of Concept, performance benchmarking, application integration and other related technical activities; Best practice definition and articulation regarding enterprise production usage of the MapR Converged Data Platform;

Senior Solution Architect

MongoDB Inc

Feb 2016 - Jun 2017 (1 year 5 months)

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform. Our platform unleashes the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Responsible for guiding customers and users to design and build reliable, scalable systems using MongoDB, the world leading NoSQL database. Taking direct responsibility for customer success, including the design of their software, deployment and operations. Working closely with sales reps and play a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward, being a trusted advisor to a wide range of users from startups to the world's largest enterprise IT organizations.

CEO and Founder

Akilio

Apr 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 11 months)

Akilio is a SaaS monitoring platform that relies on predictive data analytics to improve the reliability and efficiency of IT environments.

Associate Partner

IBM

Dec 2013 - Apr 2014 (5 months)

IBM Services works with the world’s leading companies to reimagine and reinvent through technology to build smarter business Lead business development and sales activities for the Industry enterprises customers around Infrastructure services portfolio. Focus on complex IT and Transformational projects from detection, conception and sales up to the supervision of the delivery. Covers mainly migration to public, private and hybrid Cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS) as well as Security and Business Resiliency services.

Business Development Executive Resiliency Cloud Services

IBM

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 (2 years)

IBM BCRS is world number one in business continuity solutions with more than 2000 dedicated people around the world. Responsible for developing innovative Cloud based resiliency solutions for the European market. Helping European IBM entities leveraging Private, Public and Hybrid cloud platforms (following acquisition of SoftLayer) to build resiliency solutions.

Presales Manager EMEA

i a Seagate Company

Sep 2007 - Jan 2012 (4 years 5 months)

EVault (formerly Seagate Services) is a pioneer of SaaS Backup and Data Protection managed services. Responsible for managing pre-sales activities for Alliance partners (MSP, ISV) in EMEA - SE activities: partners support, solution design - PS activities: software implementation and deployment - Training activities for partners and customers

Engagement Project Manager

IBM

Sep 2006 - Sep 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Worked with customer and sales people on solution design and pricing around business continuity solutions. This covered mainly DR solutions (from cold backup to high availability), datacenter hosting (27 000 sqm in France), as well as Workarea recovery solutions. Creation and delivery of proposals.

Pre-sales - Business continuity solutions

Sungard Availability Services

Dec 2003 - Sep 2006 (2 years 10 months)

Product Manager - electronic vaulting

Sungard Availability Services

Dec 2000 - Jan 2003 (2 years 2 months)

Set up the first Backup as a Service solution in Europe for the French market - Business plan redaction, product definition, - Technical setup, installation and support - Training of Sales reps - Work with marketing teams

Apprenti Ingénieur

CEA Commissariat à lénergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

Sep 1995 - Sep 2000 (5 years 1 month)

Worked on design and building of several microwave microelectronic devices.

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