Masters in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Sebastien de Halleux

Founding General Partner at Graph Ventures, former COO at Saildrone

Biography

Sebastien de Halleux has a 20-year track-record of launching high impact businesses around the world. He is currently a founding partner of Graph Ventures as well as Entrepreneur-in-residence at Capricorn Investment Group. Prior to that, he was the COO of Saildrone, helping launch a category-defining company which revolutionized planetary data collection at sea, using wind and solar powered ocean drones. Formerly, Sebastien was Co-Founder and COO of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social games companies, acquired by video game giant Electronic Arts in 2009 (nasdaq:EA)  and was an early team member of Glu Mobile, a pioneer in mobile games which IPO'ed in 2007 (nasdaq:GLUU). Sebastien holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.