France: Expert in entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital transformation
Europe
France
Nicolas Babin has over thirty years of experience in international, multilingual, and multicultural environments. He is a growth hacker and entrepreneur in various fields. These include AI, leadership, innovation, and robotics. He is also a skilled specialist in management, marketing, sales, communication, and digital transformation.
With management experience in the East and West, Nicolas Babin has set up and managed international teams in Europe, the United States, and Japan. He has also started and helped develop over twenty startups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
His involvement in AI started in 1996. Nicolas Babin was instrumental in launching the robotic division for Sony Europe. His accomplishments have seen him receive numerous distinguished awards. Amongst these, he counts the European Award for the Enhancement of Sony’s brand image as a technology innovator and the European Sony Six Sigma Knowledge Award in 2003. In 2007 he was awarded the Sony European Award for the best conference of the year after the Sony Media Experience in Rhodes. This was followed by an award for the best success story of taking a company to the international level in 2009 and the reward for the AT Internet, European Swal of E-excellence in 2010. He is also the recipient of the CES 2018 Innovation Award.
His success at Sony resulted in Nicolas Babin taking charge of all robotic activity concerning sales, marketing, development, and finance. He headed the company’s corporate communication for the European region. His achievements led to him becoming the company’s Head of Robotics for Europe. He also gained IPO experience on the Nasdaq and NYSE Fundraising experience.
Nicolas Babin became a board advisor for SAD Footbase from 2013-2015. He was also a MaxiCoffee board member for the period 2012-2018. He is also an independent board advisor for a European leader in tag management and a co-founder and board member of GamFed. The latter is an International Gamification Federation. Its goal is to lead, unite, and foster the interests of those in the industry, various consultants, and educators across the globe. As of 2018, he has also been involved in LinkedIn Learning as a contributor and presenter.
His role as a strategic consultant and advisor involves helping catapult revenue and drive innovation in all business models that share his values.
Nicolas Babin is an artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital transformation expert. He resides in France and is fluent in French and English. He has a professional working proficiency in German, a limited working proficiency in Japanese, and an elementary proficiency in Dutch and Spanish.
“It is a privilege to write this recommendation on behalf of Nicolas. He has been an outstanding colleague and friend for several years now. He has an impressive understanding of the complexities and nuances around digital technologies, healthtech, and importantly AI. I often look to him for his in-depth updates on the inroads AI is making around the world. Nicolas is a serial entrepreneur and executive with global experience. His international experience is second-to-none, with a deep and impressive cultural understanding of the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work with the EU, in particular, has been truly noteworthy. It is without hesitation that I strongly recommend Nicolas for your business needs and concerns. You will not be disappointed given his intelligence, strategic mindset, and collegial nature.”
“Au delà de ses expertises notamment dans le domaine de la stratégie digitale, Nicolas a un réel profil entrepreneurial avec une vision 360 degrés lui permettant d’appréhender globalement un projet entrepreneurial et d’y apporter une valeur ajoutée pertinente et efficiente “
“Nicolas is a true leader of the modern age combining business and human leadership supported by exceptional multi language/multi culture passion. Nicolas has lead team in many countries understanding the subtilities of countries and culture. Those personal and human skilled combined with a deep technology knowledge makes Nicolas your ideal partner/consultant to success within your Management Team or Board of directors.”
“Nicolas est hautement qualifié dans le marketing digital et les nouvelles technologies. Sa connaissance pointue de l'écosystème digital et des startups est reconnue depuis longtemps. Personnellement, j'apprécie tout particulièrement sa rigueur, son professionnalisme et sa volonté de toujours satisfaire le client. Nous travaillons main dans la main depuis plus de 2 ans maintenant au service de grands comptes comme Amazon, AWS, Oracle mais aussi de startups. C'est un vrai plaisir de travailler avec lui, toujours dans la bonne humeur, c'est une personne de confiance.”
“In an industry which develops every day, the word visionary is being used far too often. The truth is that while most practitioners are fighting to keep up, Nicolas has proven his exquisite ability to see ahead of the curve. Time and again Nicolas has empowered us how to accurately plan and strategise as he communicates coming trends to ordinary people - all over the world and in any size of organization. With Nicolas on board, we keep up painlessly. He leads from the front and it’s a delight to work with someone who has his eye on the ball and his feet on the ground. Nicolas is a true visionary.”