Mr. Olivier Jouve

Biography

Olivier Jouve is a French and American national based in North Carolina, USA. He holds two master’s degrees in computer science and geophysics/geochemistry from Pierre and Marie Curie University. 

He started his career in 1989 as a software engineer at CISI before founding several companies of his own, in particular Instoria, which he sold to LexiQuest. Olivier Jouve has been a pioneer in artificial intelligence, in particular in natural language processing. He also served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Leonardo Da Vinci University in Paris. He held his first executive positions at LexiQuest as COO and at SPSS Inc., a leading public data mining company, as VP Product Management and Marketing and then Corporate Development. In 2009, he joined IBM after the acquisition of SPSS Inc., where he held several senior executive roles for almost eight years, including Global Director of Product Management for IBM Industry Solutions and Global Vice President of Offering Management for IBM Watson IoT. Since 2017, Mr. Olivier Jouve has been working at Genesys, a $2B+ company, where he spent seven years in the position of Executive VP and General Manager of Cloud and AI development and now holds the position of EVP and Chief Product Officer. He is responsible for the overall product direction and innovation of Genesys, including oversight of the Genesys Cloud™ platform. Through this transformation to the cloud, Olivier Jouve supports the Genesys goal to be carbon neutral by 2030. Over the course of his career, Mr. Olivier Jouve has built an expertise in Cloud Hyperscalers, artificial intelligence, product management and development, as well as a deep understanding of business transformation and corporate development.