Stéphane Distinguin

Stéphane Distinguin is the founder and CEO of FABERNOVEL GROUP, chairman of Cap Digital, a member of the French Digital Council and honorary chairman of Silicon Sentier. Stéphane graduated from ESCP Europe in 1997 and joined Deloitte & Touche. In 1999 he participated in the creation of Up&Up, an early stage investment fund. In 2003, he created FABERNOVEL, a innovation firm based on Paris, San Francisco, New York, Lisbon and Moscow. FABERNOVEL combines technology, design and emerging trends to invent new products, services and experiences to help world leading companies to build growth at start up speed. As a French entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of new technology and innovation, Stéphane participated in the launch of new event formats such as BarCamps, MobileMondays, Cleantech Tuesdays and TEDxParis. He also played an important role in the creation of the co-working spaces of the ‘Cantines” network, PARISOMA in San Francisco and the start-up accelerator Le Camping.