Bruno Vanryb was the ''CEO'' of BVRP, a Paris-based company he co-founded with Roger Politis in 1984. He was a French

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(1957 - January 12, 2019). Additionally, he was the founder and former

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Avanquest BVRP Software SA is a Paris-based software company that has purchased American software companies. A 2007 acquisition placed it, according to one report, as then being the sixth largest publisher of consumer software in the United States. Histor ...

, a worldwide software company. He headed Be Brave, a

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firm.

Biography

Vanryb was a former

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and tech journalist (SVM, Micro Systèmes and Soft & Micro particular), and author of twelve books on micro-computers. In 1984, he cofounded BVRP with Roger Politis, which became

, a leading

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and around the world. In January 2014, the company had 530 employees across seven countries. One of the flagship products of the company was a

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software named

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. Vanryb served as

and then Executive Chairman of Avanquest until June 2015. He was also very active in the French digital and innovation ecosystem. Vanryb along with

Denis Payre Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final e ...

, participated in the foundation of an association called Croissance Plus, which supports and raises awareness of growing companies in France. He chaired the association between 1998 and 2000. From 2002 to 2005, Vanryb served as President of Middlenext, an association whose members are medium-sized companies listed on

Euronext Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a European bourse that provides trading and post-trade services for a range of financial instruments. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrant ...

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. In July 2007, Bruno Vanryb was appointed to the Board of Directors of

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until 2014. From 2010 to 2015, he also served as vice-president of Syntec Numérique, which represents 1,100 member companies and groups, with 50% are software companies. Between April 2011 and July 2012, he was a member and vice-president of the

Conseil national du numérique The Conseil national du numérique (French Digital Council, abbreviated CNNum or less commonly CNN) is a French independent advisory commission created on 29 April 2011 by the French presidential decree n°2011-476. It was reorganized and expanded ...

, a consultative group created by French president

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...

to advise him on digital issues. Since 2016, Vanryb has been a Senior Partner at the M&A

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Avolta Partners. Bruno Vanryb died in a motorcycle accident on January 12, 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanryb, Bruno French businesspeople French audio engineers 1957 births 2019 deaths