Stéphane Buthaud

Stéphane Buthaud has a background in engineering and is a graduate from the Sciences Po University in Paris.

His professional experience includes 8 years in auditing and management consulting in France, China and Argentina, and 7 years in Microfinance and Development work for international NGOs in Asia and Africa. While working with partner organizations, Stéphane obtained the Pro-Poor Innovation Challenge launched by CGAP - World Bank (2006), the UNDP’s Best Micro-entrepreneur Award (2006), and the French Presidency's Human Rights Prize (2009).

In 2010, Stéphane founded HumanoGames and created HappyLife, the first crowd-funding game on Facebook with a real-world impact. In the virtual world of HappyLife, each player creates his or her own micro-business and re-invests the virtual currency earned while playing to help real world entrepreneurs get started in business in real life. So far, more than 1 million players of HappyLife have already generated 75,000 dollars in loans for micro-entrepreneurs the world over.

In 2013, Stéphane co-founded JeReveduneMaison.com in order to democratize access to vacation houses through fractional ownership.

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