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Franck Carassus

Co-Founder & CSO, Opendatasoft

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.

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Public Sector Company news
Opendatasoft Is Expanding Its Footprint in Australia
Franck Carassus
24 August 2020
Opendatasoft and Peclet Technology are launching a collaboration with Western Sydney in continued support of Australia’s smart cities. Read more to find out!
Data Trends
Opendatasoft Joins the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program
Franck Carassus
20 January 2020
Opendatasoft joins the Qualcomm® Smart Cities Accelerator Program.
Public Sector
Mo’mix Solutions and Opendatasoft Partnership
Franck Carassus
02 April 2018
Opendatasoft’s product integration provides Mo’mix Solutions customers easy to use data technology embedded with Mo’mix Performance Center to offer one platform to easily leverage and securely share information.
Data Trends Public Sector
Opendatasoft Launches Open Data America: A Free Data Portal for over 500 U.S. Cities
Franck Carassus
23 October 2017
Opendatasoft launches Open Data America, a first-of-its-kind initiative to release data portals for over 500 cities across the United States.
Data Trends Company news
Opendatasoft Achieves Advanced Tier Technology Partner Status in the AWS APN
Franck Carassus
14 August 2017
Opendatasoft is excited to announce it has achieved Advanced tier Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN).
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Mobility Company news Data Trends
Opendatasoft Partners with Waze
Franck Carassus
28 June 2017
Opendatasoft, a global software platform that specializes in making data open, transparent, and actionable, is excited to announce a new data sharing partnership with Waze, the free, real-time crowdsourced traffic and navigation app.
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Company news
Opendatasoft raises $5.5M from North American and European Investors
Franck Carassus
25 October 2016
Press release – Opendatasoft Announces continued expansion in France and Europe as well as opening of North American Headquarters in Boston; Reinforces its position as a Global Player in the Data Revolution.
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