Alex Serge Vieux is the chairman and publisher of Red Herring and CEO of Herring International. Through Red Herring Top 100 and other events, Vieux analyzes the potential of approximately 2,000 startups each year. His contributions to the IT industry span more than 20 years and include co-founding of DASAR, a European incubator and conference company. Currently, Vieux serves on the

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of several international public and private companies, including

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, CommerceOne, CheckPoint Software,

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and Kyriba. In 1997, Vieux was named president of the Infotech Commission for the French Republic, under the auspice of the Minister of Economics and Finance. Vieux served on the

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for Tandem Computers for two years, until the company's merger with Compaq in 1997. Active in public service, he served as special adviser to the Minister of Industry in France from 1991 to 1993, covering all issues relating to the high-tech industry. In 1988, he was named visiting professor at the

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. Vieux also held a position at the University of Paris La Sorbonne. Vieux started his career at

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(1981–1985) implementing information systems. In 1985, he took a position as the US business correspondent for the French daily '' Le Monde'' and has authored more than 300 articles profiling the high-tech industry in the Silicon Valley. As an entrepreneur, Vieux co-founded CATS Software and Renaissance Software, firms focusing on the banking industry. A graduate of the ''

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'' and the French business school

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, Vieux holds a law degree from the ''

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'' and an MBA from

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, where he was a

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Sources

Red Herring returns
MarketWatch September 25, 2003.

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