Biography




Yann Roger is a Senior Manager with an excellent track record in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Distributed Output Management (DOM) and IT infrastructure management. His significant experience was gained through R&D, technical, sales and management positions with international exposure. Naturally enthusiastic with an ability to develop team member skills in relation with clear objectives allowed him to successfully lead groups of IT engineers. Yann has a complete knowledge of Software development processes from conception to sale and loves being challenged with infrastructure projects to support an ever growing business.

He started his career in software development with RSD in 1990 as a developer of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the leading Report Distribution System product EOS (previously named WSF2-ERD). After 3 years of intensive development including a year at the army, responsible for a food stock DB application for the entire regiment, Yann took the opportunity to join the Marketing of RSD as Marketing assistant in 1993 reporting directly to the Marketing Director. His in depth knowledge of RSD products allowed him to easily present the products to sales and distributor channels and perform customer training.

In 1995 Yann took the challenge of joining a totally renewed Sales force at RSD and continually exceeded yearly sales targets. His excellent interpersonal skills allowed Yann to build strong relationships with customers who much appreciated his technical arguments and ability to lively demonstrate the products on-site. Other Sales representatives started to request Yann’s assistance on their own projects which led to the creation of a Presales support group while managing IT infrastructure for both Sales and Presales.

In 1997 Yann was promoted Presales Manager for the European operation. He implemented new standards for products demonstration, recruited qualified staff and continuously helped Sales to successfully reach their objectives while competing against multinational software vendors. As a direct consequence of that success, RSD was positioned by Gartner in leaders quadrant since creation of “Integrated Document Archival & Retreival System (IDARS) Magic Quadrant”. In 2004, he assumed responsibilities for Presales worldwide. He also implemented new Quality Assurance processes as well as created a technology research group whose mission was to identify third party software products to integrate with RSD solutions as OEM components.

In 2005, Yann took the challenge of leading the Product Division worldwide. For two years, he managed R&D, Customer services, Presales and Internal Infrastructure services which have been greatly improved during that period. He also largely contributed to renew “RSD Folders” Document Management and Archival System to make it a state of the art as well as release new products (Doc2Print, Data2Doc, Activisor, etc.). He also actively participated in the process of acquisition of the company by a Venture Capital fund. His last position as Products Strategy Advisor gave Yann a great opportunity to work close with C level executives of RSD to identify technology software companies as potential partnership or acquisition targets.

In 2009, taking advantage of the global economy turn down, Yann started a new career move as an independent consultant. Based on his significant experience in ECM, DOM and IT management projects, his objective to support organizations with a view to reduce costs of paper handling (in/outgoing mail), optimizing e-mail management (archival, e-discovery), enable business units to securely share documents and to ensure long term archive compliance with standards and regulations.

Yann was born and raised in Switzerland. Bilingual in English and French, he holds a degree in Information Technology from the Institute of Technology of Toulouse University (France), is ITIL V3 certified and a professional member of AIIM. He is living in Coppet, a village beside the shores of lake Geneva, with his wife and daughter. He enjoys outdoor activities like ski touring or mountaineering and appreciates family holidays to sunny exotic locations where he can practice kitesurf.