Pierre Bonnet – “I am Pierre Bonnet. Being a French citizen, I graduated from computer engineer from INSA Lyon in 1990, a leading engineering school in France. Now I spend my time between France and Viet Nam for business purposes. I started my career in 1990 in writing methodological guides to help companies make better use of the Internet in their operations. That was my first experience for formalizing knowledge. Thanks to this innovative offer at the time, I became a successful intrapreneur, i.e. an employee with the responsibility of a profit center. Within a decade, I had gained financial independence by investing part of my salary in rental real estate. However, working for an employer and having a comfortable life was not my motivation. I could have started my business as a solo-entrepreneur and continued selling my methodological guides, but I decided to do more. At 33 years old, I created a start-up in software for data management with two co-founders and became an entrepreneur. We sold the company eighteen years later (Orchestra Networks) to an international group, which made our fortune. Although I am now financially free, I do not want to stop working, I prefer to formalize my knowledge by creating the E-META-Framework (EMF). It allows to build mind maps on knowledge which I applied it to my own expertise in entrepreneurship and data management with digitalization. I also financed other companies in organic agriculture and processing in Vietnam (Biophap) and in an innovative drink in Singapore (Drinkizz). For the management of these businesses, I use the E-META-Framework to increase the chances of success with teams who trust me.”
