Gilles Vliegen is a French entrepreneur and an Information Technology Engineer. He has more than 40 years of High Technology industry experience, including creating, financing, overseeing, and managing domestic and international software and software distribution companies. Gilles created his first company in 1981. This company was a pioneer in development tools for the UNIX environment and developed a fourth-generation language.

After selling his company in 1986, Gilles developed during the following ten years a solid Executive Officer experience in software distribution and in significant public American software companies. He has established a solid network with key Silicon Valley Executives and Venture Capitalists. Following his return to Europe, Gilles co-founded and managed an investment company, specializing in bringing portfolio companies of California Venture Capitalists, then a software platform dedicated to significant event organizing committees.

Gilles is still non-executive chairman and shareholder of a software company and advisor of several private equity funds.