Colette Ballou

Colette is the founder of Ballou PR. She oversees activities for the Paris, London, New York and San Francisco offices. Folks she works with: Facebook, Amazon, Shopping.com, SurveyMonkey, Groupon, Autonomy, Criteo, Cisbio, Dailymotion, HRA Pharma, Notrefamille, myfab, Viadeo, Sofinnova Partners, Partech International, Atlas Venture, Microsoft BizSpark, IBM SmartCamp and Seedcamp. Colette is an active part of the European and US start-up community: she is a speaker and moderator at industry events and is a mentor and judge for start-up organizations such as Seedcamp, Microsoft BizSpark, GuideWire Group Innovate! Europe conference, IBM SmartCamp, SxSW Start-Up Accelerator, European Tech Tour, TechCrunch and the Plugg conference in Brussels. She is also one of the 500 Mentors for 500 Startups, where her superhero personality is European Girl.