CMO, Cegid

A member of Cegid’s Strategic Committee, Valérie Thomassin is Chief Marketing Officer. She was appointed to this position on October 1, 2017, when she joined the company.

Valérie is responsible for the brand’s repositioning and of the construction of a robust lead generation ecosystem to serve Cegid’s strategic plan. Valérie also heads-up internal communication, sales enablement, pricing and product marketing. She has set up a global team of marketing professionals to meet the strong ambitions of Cegid, fueled  by solid organic growth and more than twenty acquisitions over the past few years. Cegid is now recognized for both being one of the most successful LBO over the last 10
years in France and a key leader in Europe for cloud business management software solutions.

Before joining Cegid, Valerie was a member of the Executive Committee of Xerox Europe where she held the position of Chief Marketing Officer, covering the entire scope of the company, from Technology (‘Xerox’) and Services (now ‘Conduent’). In charge of the marketing and communication strategy, as well as the European localization of the brand, she also created the ‘demand center’ which quickly became the global hub of Xerox. Building on this success, Valérie and her teams were also responsible for the sales enablement practice she created on a global scale.

Based for over 15 years in the US (NY & CT) and in the UK (Uxbridge, Middlesex), Valérie was responsible for a variety of Business Unit and Marketing positions globally and in Europe.

Valerie was born France and holds a Master’s degree in Business from the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales (E.D.H.E.C) Lille, France. She is now based in Lyon at Cegid’s Headquarters.