Management team

He was previously Group CFO, having joined neopost in 1998. From 1991, he was Group CFO of Moorings, a world leader in leisure boat rental based in the US. From 1984 to 1991, he held a number of senior positions with Wang France becoming CFO in June 1989. Denis Thiery started his career in 1979 as auditor with Coopers & Lybrand both in France and the US, and was audit Manager when he left audit in 1984. He graduated from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC).

He is a graduate of ESCP and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He joined the Neopost Group in 2002 as Marketing and Strategy Director, before going on to head Neopost France. He began his career as a management consultant with Bain & Cie before becoming Investment Director at BC Partners.

Clem started his career with KPMG where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He then held various positions in Finance and Management in the office equipment industry and in particular the copier industry. He was notably appointed President of NRG France from 2001 to 2007, Chief Executive then President of Ricoh France from 2007 to 2009. Clem is an Irish citizen. He is a Commerce graduate of University College Dublin.

Dennis spent many years in the office equipment and copier industry. He was Regional Operations Manager for A-Copy in Boston before becoming President and CEO. After IKON Office Solutions acquired A-Copy, he was appointed Senior Vice President, Corporate Officer of IKON North America. Dennis Lestrange has a BS in Accounting and Business Administration from Empire State College SUNY.

Previously, Gavin was on the Executive Board of Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, where he was Director for Market Development. Prior to this, Gavin has had an extensive career both with Royal Mail in London and as Managing Director of PostEurop in Brussels. He has also spent time working for TNT in Amsterdam where he took the lead for the constitution of the Spring Global Mail Joint Venture. Gavin has a Master of Arts in French with Canadian studies from Edinburgh University.

Previously he had been Managing Director of neopost France since 2000. Under his leadership, its profitability grew significantly following reorganisation and implementation of cross selling activities. Previously Henri Dura held top marketing and management positions at Xerox, France Télécom, Kyocera and finally at Pitney Bowes. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris in economics and finance.

He is responsible for Supply Chain, production and purchasing operations. He joined Neopost in 1999 as Financial Director of Neopost Industrie. Previously, he had been Financial Director for a French company operating in the gas dispensers maintenance business, and Financial Controller at Schlumberger for six years in various industrial business units. Jean-François Labadie has a business degree from ISG, a business school in Paris.

Previously he held senior HR roles at Prudential-Bache-International, CHEP and IHS Energy. His early career was in operational and technical roles at Schlumberger in Asia, and as General Manager in Thailand. Following a staff role in training and development, he moved to Norway and took HR responsibility for the crews of 26 seismic vessels, before moving to Paris as Head of HR for Retail Petroleum Systems. Chris Hockey has worked in seven different countries and speaks English, French, Norwegian, Thai and Indonesian. He has an MA in physics from Oxford.

He participated actively in Ascom Mailing Systems acquisition and its integration into neopost Group. Previously he worked for ten years for Framatome (Nuclear and Connectors) as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law in the Legal Department. Before 1990 he held various corporate legal positions in companies and law firms. Alain Midowski graduated from University of Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne in business, public and administrative law.

Responsible for global R&D activities and International Product and Service Support. He joined in 2005 as R&D Director. Previously he worked for Sony (Brussels, Belgium) as General Manager for European R&D and Customer Services for Vaio and Aibo, and as Managing Director of Sony e-Services Europe (Sony European direct sales). In former positions, he was the head of Communication Products and Technologies R&D group at Apple Computer Inc ( Cupertino, USA) and has been the head of a business unit in the SAGEM Group. Philippe Boulanger holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

He is responsible for a new group which comprises the Neopost Software & Integrated Solutions sites in Rüti, Switzerland and Austin, Texas as well as Satori Software, Neopost’s recent acquisition in the address management and data quality area. He joined Neopost in 2005 as Group Director of Information Systems. Previously he was the IT director at NextiraOne Europe and Thales Underwater Systems and was the Finance & IT Director for American Power Conversion for EMEA. Enno Ebels has a degree in Management and Computer Science from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and the INSEAD Executive Program.

This business unit offers products and services for data processing and traceability in the supply chain. He joined Neopost in 2007 as Managing Director of Neopost Diva. Previously, he worked for Prost then for UPS in France, USA and UK. He became Director of Information Systems at Danzas France, then Director Europe of the ground operations (Basle, Switzerland). He created his own group of consultants in 1998. Alain is a graduate in data processing and statistics, and the management of companies from the ICG of Nantes.