Franck Carassus

As Co-Founder and CEO North America, Franck is responsible for driving global sales for Opendatasoft, with a focus on growing the company’s presence in the United States. Since 2011, Franck has helped 100+ organizations worldwide improve their governance or operations through data sharing. His deep expertise spans across the public sector, utilities, energy, and telecommunications industries. Most recently, Franck was involved in building large public-private partnerships between cities and companies such as Waze, GE and AT&T in North America to enable efficient data sharing and build smarter cities.

Franck brings to the position a successful track record of more than 20 years that includes managing sales teams, creating high-performance sales channels, and generating significant partnerships with public and private sector organizations. Prior to joining Opendatasoft, Franck held executive sales and business development roles for major software companies. He has overseen the sales departments for HP Software, Symantec, Novell and Dassault Systèmes.