Thierry Maupilé

Experience & Background

Thierry Maupilé, CEO at ELEO Partners, has extensive experience and knowledge in startups and entrepreneurship, telecommunications, and strategic partnerships. Previously part of the Chief Technology and Strategy office at Cisco, he was responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships across all business segments. Prior to that, he held the position of Chief of Strategy for Service Providers at Cisco.

After a stint with Motorola in Europe, Maupilé was hired by investors from Silicon Valley to join the senior management team of IPWireless, a start-up in mobile broadband technology. In 2007, he joined the founding team of another start-up, Starent Networks. Following a successful IPO, the company was acquired by Cisco in December 2009 for $3 Billion. He joined the start-up Altiostar Networks in August 2018 who is disrupting the mobile networking infrastructure industry (4G/5G).

He holds an MBA degree from IMD (1988) and was instrumental in establishing the IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative. He is also the Executive Sponsor of the IMD Alumni Club of Silicon Valley.

Expertise & Interests

Entrepreneurship and startups, telecommunications, technology, strategic partnerships.