Leadership Team
Loic Le Meur – Founder & CEO
Loic is the Seesmic CEO. He founded the company
in 2007, with the goal of turning online video into a powerful medium
for threaded, interactive video conversations.
Loic is the founder and CEO of video conversation site Seesmic.com. Seesmic also makes one of the most popular Twitter and social software clients – Twhirl.org.
Loic also founded and hosts the #1 tech event in Europe, LeWeb.net, with his wife Geraldine. LeWeb gathers together 2000 entrepreneurs from 40 countries in December every year.
Prior to Seesmic and LeWeb, Loic started several other businesses such as Six Apart Europe, RapidSite, a web hosting service (acquired by France Telecom in 1999) as well as B2L, an interactive agency in 1999 (acquired by BBDO).
Loic has been blogging since 2003 at http://www.loiclemeur.com and can be also found online at http://www.seesmic.com/loic and http://www.twitter.com/loic
Recently, Business Week Magazine named Loic one of The 25 Most
Influential People on the Web. he advises the World Economic Forum as well as covers the Annual Summit
every year in Davos. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in
San Francisco, California and has three boys.
Johann Romefort – CTO
A seasoned coder and proud holder of the “biggest hair CTO in technology” title, Johann met Loic when Seesmic was still merely 2 pages of notes in a Moleskine. Always thrilled by a challenge, Johann joined with Loic to lead the company’s technology development, fascinated by tackling the adventure building a huge idea from scratch.
Sometimes better known as “the CTO who never sleeps”, Johann loves to think out-of-the box, is well-versed in domains like semantic web, distributed systems, and messaging systems. On a higher level, aestheticism in computing is what most interests Johann – from architecture design to interface metaphors.
Johann also truly embraces the concept of social media as a powerful way to build the best development team. Taking full advantage of Skype, Johann has been able to form an incredibly talented global team of developers and stay in touch with them easily.
Prior to Seesmic, Johann spent two years as a freelance ninja coder, building kick ass prototypes and POCs for startups in online video industry.
