EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year Nominee: Jérôme Callec (GE 1994), Founder of Linkeo and Socket Blues Production

Graduate of EDHEC in 1994 and of Université Dauphine, Jérôme started his career with Vivendi in London before spending several years with Cegetel in Paris.

He founded linkeo.com on March 2000 and is currently CEO, board member and shareholder. He sold 50% of his shares in early 2014.
After starting from scratch less than 15 years ago, linkeo.com is now France’s leading creator of websites for VSMEs with:

• over 700 employees, of whom 50% work outside France, 


• over €40m in revenues and €10m in EBITDA in 2013,  


• over 30,000 clients


• and, for the last five years, linkeo.com has been expanding rapidly in international markets (Canada, Australia, USA) and running production centres in Mauritius and Madagascar.

Linkeo.com has found a winning blend of rapid organic growth and consolidation in the French market via two successive acquisitions in 2009 and 2010. 
The challenge over the next few years lies with international expansion, particularly in the US.  
As a music lover, Jérôme also founded Socket Blues Production in 2010, a production and publishing company for musical artists in whom he believes. He is currently promoting an album for Garner, a group he has supported and produced for the last four years.
Jérôme is a pioneer: he was a member of the first class to graduate from the Nice campus, which is celebrating its 20 birthday this year. 
Linkeo, a first success story, built on tenacity, humility and creativity!                             
- 1994-2014...20 years it took Jérôme to go from ...zero, from nothing, from cardboard boxes, from his garage, to €40m in revenues, an international company employing over 700 and a genuine media group that is shaking up the leaders in the sector.
- 20 years to create and re-create: Jérôme organised his partial withdrawal from the group in 2014 in order to embark on new projects.
 Jérôme is passionate about the creativity of others and about music!
As a business angel, Jérôme now helps others to express their creativity, as witnessed by his first active participation in Vivienne Investissement, a quantitative investment fund. He assists start-ups...and especially innovative projects in the music and artistic spheres.

And he is now setting off on a new adventure in music, a field he is passionate about.  Find out about Jérôme in video.
For more information: http://www.linkeo.us/