Philippe Joly

Philippe Joly is a French entrepreneur born in Russia in 1976.

He grew up in France, where he arrived as a baby, but it is in Ireland that his entrepreneurial journey started in 2005, when he left his stable managerial job to start his first business.

He is polyglot in many European languages and a well-travelled entrepreneur, whose expertise and passion for mobile and web technologies gets him regularly solicited for consultancy work all over the world.

Philippe has been involved in many projects in the digital space including mobile apps, web portals, social networks, location-based services, social media, backup services, online video, mobile web and mobile security.

He was nominated for various entrepreneurial awards and won the Mobile Messaging Award in 2011 for his latest venture, SafeBox (safebox.mobi), which attracted over 1.5 million users and is sold worldwide by the largest mobile operators and content providers.

He is the author of a book on entrepreneurship called "Potemkin, Inc. - How Perception Is Everything And What To Do With It In Businesss" available in all major online bookstores including iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the Book Depository, Alibris, Towers, Fishpond, and more....