Summary
Etienne Gaillard is a seasoned digital product leader with nine years of focused experience orchestrating connected sports and mobility experiences, now heading Sports Experiences at Decathlon. He blends product strategy, UX and innovation with hands-on prototyping skills gained running his own studio, advising startups and building hardware-enabled maker spaces. His career spans transformation roles at Cisco and NDS where he moved teams from service models to product-centric design and scaled UX studios into industrial practices. Comfortable interfacing business, tech and design, he has a track record of turning patent-backed R&D into commercial products and supporting successful early-stage fundraising. Etienne pairs an MBA in Management by Design with deep practical knowledge of front-end stacks, embedded tools and product roadmapping—an unusual mix that helps him bridge strategy and execution. Based in Greater Paris, he brings a pragmatic, maker’s mindset to large-scale digital experience programs.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
master IT Project Management, master IT Project Management at Université Paris 8
MBA spécialisé Management by Design, MBA spécialisé Management by Design at Strate, Ecole de Design
BS Geology/Earth Science General, BS Geology/Earth Science General at Lycée blaise pascal
French, English, russian (notions)