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Pierre Blangero and Kamel Gaddas co-founded WinSoft International in 1985. They have worked together closely to build WinSoft International from a small software publisher with its own software products (WinText, WinFile, WinType...), to today's fast-growing international business, partnering with major software companies. WinSoft International proposes its own product range and helps software publishers pursue their market expansion into new, emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and South-East Asia.

Pierre Blangero

Pierre Blangero - President and Co-founder

Pierre Blangero is President of WinSoft International, which he co-founded WinSoft International in 1985, and a member of the Board of Directors.

Prior to founding WinSoft International, Pierre Blangero worked in the non-profit field in collaboration with the Ministry of Cooperation. He contributed to the development of public management computer systems (customs, public accounting) in various African and Middle Eastern countries. After 15 years of work experience, he decided to co-found a software company with Kamel Gaddas.

Pierre Blangero holds an Engineering degree from the ENSIMAG at Grenoble.

Kamel H. Gaddas - CEO and Co-founder

Kamel Gaddas is the Chief Executive Officer of WinSoft International, which he co-founded in 1985, as well as a member of the Board of Directors.

Kamel Gaddas managed the engineering team for 20 years.

Kamel Gaddas was the driving force behind the transformation of WinSoft International's original Macintosh software team into today's highly qualified globalization and localization engineering team, specialized into non-Latin scripts for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Kamel Gaddas holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from the ENSIMAG at Grenoble, France.

Caroline Hourregue - Sales Director

Caroline Hourregue is the Sales Director of WinSoft International. Caroline joined WinSoft International in 1989. Since then, she has actively participated in the development of the company. She now supervises all the operational components of WinSoft International: sales, sales administration, production and logistics.

With an educational background in engineering, Caroline Hourregue earned her spurs in business and marketing at IBM. Trained in business prospecting techniques, then managing key accounts, she was afterwards in charge of business team management and recruited and trained a commercial team for an IBM partner.

Bertrand Lechevalier - Technical Director

Bertrand Lechevalier is the Technical Director of WinSoft International. After managing projects for PageMaker and InDesign for several years, Bertrand Lechevalier was placed in charge of the overall management of the team dedicated to Adobe products. Appointed in October 2007 as a Director of the company, Bertrand Lechevalier is now responsible for the engineer team.

Bertrand Lechevalier was software project manager for 8 years at Schneider Automation before joining WinSoft International in 1988 and holds an Engineering degree from the ESIEE (Electrotechnical and Electronic Engineering University), France.

Jacques-Henri Cabos - Company Secretary

As WinSoft International Company Secretary, appointed in October 2007, Jacques-Henri Cabos is in charge of the support functions of the company (accounting, administration, information technology) and both Human Resources and internal Communication.

Retail bank branch manager during the 1980s, he held various positions in Finance in industry and air transport during the 1990s. Jacques-Henri Cabos joined then XCOM as Company Secretary, in charge of legal, finance and human resources. He was a main actor in the merge with the British Group PACE, a key designer of set-top boxes for digital television.