With 25 years of experience across Paris, Berlin, and New York, Sylvain has shaped products used by millions of people, from Myspace to SoundCloud to Shutterstock. His career blends product expertise with business acumen: scaling SoundCloud from $3M to $100M in annual revenue and leading Shutterstock's B2C division (a $350M P&L).
Most recently Chief Product Officer at PayFit — the European payroll and HR SaaS platform for small and mid-sized businesses — he led the product, design, data, compliance, and customer service teams. There, he drove the company's AI transformation through concrete innovations and hands-on internal change management. Convinced of generative AI's impact on organizations, Sylvain is an active voice on these topics and has trained leaders on them with Pollen. He holds an MBA from ESSEC and a BA in History from La Sorbonne, and brings his dual product-and-business perspective to growing international organizations.
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