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Holding on to a ceiling strap, Vieux tilts forward as the airport bus careens across the tarmac.
Using an airport analogy he tells a worried French entrepreneur, “You are short of runway. Come to my conference and I’ll connect you to the right investors.”
Vieux, who was born in Paris of Haitian extraction, is a consummate matchmaker who never stops schmoozing. Dividing his time between California and Paris, he knows all the U.S. tech titans and takes pride in ferreting out foreign start-ups that will interest them.
He serves on the boards of four public tech companies, including Check Point Software, an Israel-based Nasdaq firm that makes security software, and advises four venture capital funds. That’s in his spare time. Vieux’s main job is running DASAR, which he formed to connect entrepreneurs with venture capitalists and the heads of large tech companies.
His annual invitation-only European Technology Roundtable Exhibition attracts top Silicon Valley investors, some 1,000 ceos (like Bill Gates and Dell Computers’ Michael Dell), and start-ups looking for cash and credibility.
The Vision Thing: "DASAR is a human router of a new kind: we direct and give personal access, point-to-point, to all executives of the technology networks."
Forward Spin: DASAR aims to connect, within 24 hours, all executives who need to be brought together, regardless of where they are based.
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