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Highdeal Announces New Chief Strategy Officer and
New Vice President of Alliances and Business Development
Paris – May 13, 2008 – Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of Pricing and Rating solutions, is pleased to announce the promotion of Christophe Justeau to the position of Chief Strategy Officer. In his new role, Mr. Justeau will be responsible for accelerating the internal and external growth of Highdeal.
Mr. Justeau joined Highdeal in 2002 as the Executive Vice President of Alliances. With over 20 years of international experience in the development of business technological products and services, including sixteen years in Europe and four years in the US, he brings extensive knowledge and insight to his new role as CSO. Before arriving at Highdeal, Mr. Justeau was Vice President of the ‘Telecom Sales Group’ at EVIDIAN (the software division of BULL) and Sales and Marketing Director at Capgemini. Mr. Justeau graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a degree in law.
Eric Pillevesse, CEO of Highdeal said, “Christophe knows how to tackle companywide challenges and seize new business opportunities. With his existing relationship with global partners and customers and his proven management skills, Christophe is the right person to reinforce Highdeal as the leader and innovator in our existing markets and to drive the company forward as we continue to expand into new markets”.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Justeau explained, “The consolidation and convergence of service providers is generating huge opportunities for Highdeal. In addition, we have proven that the same technology that works for telecoms is a perfect fit for other industries. I look forward to working with everyone at Highdeal to ensure we successfully execute our strategic initiatives, seize new business opportunities, and continue to strengthen our market position.
Renaud Sibel will replace Mr. Justeau as the new Vice President of Alliances and Business Development at Highdeal. Prior to joining Highdeal, Mr. Sibel spent eight years at SAP where he held various local and international sales and business development management positions. Most recently, he was Director for CRM Solutions for EMEA. Mr. Sibel graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Mr. Sibel is highly qualified to lead the company’s global efforts to establish new solution partnerships, continue to grow Highdeal’s existing partner eco-system and lead Highdeal's reinforced business development in Asia and Latin America.
“Renaud’s senior Go-to-market and enterprise applications sales experience will be a great asset to Highdeal as we further expand our footprint into new geographies and verticals. I am confident in his ability to succeed Christophe in building and supporting our local business teams while strengthening and developing the sales channels of Highdeal,” remarked Eric Pillevesse, CEO of Highdeal. About Highdeal Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing
& Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained usage-based business
models coupled with real-time, multi-party transaction management, Highdeal
solves the billing problem for service providers. Proven by 200 deployments
in more than 50 countries, the Highdeal
Transactive® software solution provides greater business agility and
lower TCO. From telecoms, Internet and media sectors, to transportation, logistics,
and financial markets, businesses across the service economy rely on Highdeal
to increase their competitiveness. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.

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