Antoine Freysz

After launching his first venture in 2000 (exited in 2002), Antoine joined the Travelocity / Lastminute group as Sales Director and then becoming COO. At that time, he directly managed 200 employees, including 50 salespeople. In 2009, he cofounded the “Startup Studio” Otium with Pierre-Edouard Sterin, Smartbox’s founder. Antoine built the founding team, hiring Stanislas Niox-Château and Philippe de Chanville (5 years later, Stan will found Doctolib and Philippe ManoMano). As Otium CEO, Antoine conducted the acquisition of LaFourchette in 2009, led Lafourchette’s Board for 6 years (the startup grew from 3 to 250 salaries across 4 markets) and conducted the exit process to TripAdvisor in May 2014. Antoine cofounded a total of 6 “Otium” startups, among others Balinea, the leading platform for beauty institute bookings, and Weekendesk, an OTA for weekends generating above €100 million in Transaction Volume in 5 countries. Antoine graduated from HEC Paris.