Management team

Bernard Joseph, Chairman of the Board

With an engineering background (X - ENSAE), Bernard Joseph performed several activities before founding MetaWare. In 1970, he became Chief Executive Officer of SERTI and was involved in the creation of the Groupement Français d'Informatique (GFI - French IT Group), whose Board of Directors he chaired from 1976 to 1982. He acquired international experience within the Thomson group until 1986. He then moved on to direct the IT activities of the Charbonnage de France group and chaired the CDFI. In 1990, Bernard Joseph founded International Consulting Partners (INCOPAR), a strategy and marketing consulting company aimed at information technology companies. In 1995, he partnered with Jean-Luc Bellet to create MetaWare, that he now chairs.

Jean-Luc Bellet, Chief Executive Officer

As an engineer (Sup Télécom), Jean-Luc Bellet first got to grip with new technologies in the Thomson group laboratories (LER).
In 1994, he integrated AT&T's Bell Labs in New Jersey. For a number of years, he contributed to the design and development of UNIX System V (SVR4.x). On his return to Europe, he first created AT&T's IT activity in France, followed by a joint venture between Stéria and Unix System Laboratories (USL) to launch the Tuxedo technology.
In 1993, after the buyout of USL by Novell, he created OpenWare Consulting and dedicated himself to new technology training, consulting and engineering.
In 1995, he joined forces with Bernard Joseph, with whom he had worked at the start of his career in the Thomson Group, to create MetaWare Technologies.

Paul Kevers, Senior Vice-president

As Senior Vice-President, Paul Kevers has acquired a vast experience in mainframe environment project management. Paul Kevers joined MetaWare in 1998 as Quality Manager and was then rapidly appointed to Director of Production. Before joining MetaWare, Paul Kevers was Project Director for Assurances Générales and Technical Director for Unilog. At Assurances Générales, he was in charge of development, in a BULL and IBM large mainframe environment. For Unilog, he was in charge of the development of automation tools for application management and production management in a mainframe environment. Paul Kevers holds a degree in economic sciences from Mons University (Belgium).

Bertrand Glandier, Director of Pre-Sales Services

Bertrand Glandier is leading Presales operations at MetaWare. In his capacity, Bertrand and his team of experts are responsible for delivering appropriate responses to a wide spectrum of legacy environment modernization paths while coordinating and leveraging MetaWare technical expertise as well as industrialization processes.
Prior to assuming his current role, Bertrand has been involved in multiple large scale legacy modernization projects, where he was responsible of building the Offshore Migration Factory. Prior to MetaWare, Bertrand held several positions including technology consulting and sales, at MiFund, Cap Gemini and Cambridge Technology Partners. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from HEC.

Jean-Hubert Rochefort, Production Director

With an engineering degree from ESIEA, Jean-Hubert Rochefort started his career with Accenture in 1992. At this time, he was managing strategic IS projects within the Communications, Electronic & High Tech entity, both in France and abroad.
In 2001 and 2002, he rolled out an electronic marketplace, based on an ASP solution, in North America and Mexico, for a world leader in image technologies.
Between 2003 and 2005, he implemented a network services activation solution for a French telecommunications operator, based on an offshore development structure. After obtaining his Executive MBA from HEC, he joined MetaWare in 2006 as Production Director in charge of industrialization process projects.