Julien Deslangles-blanch
COO & Strategic Advisor
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJulien Deslangles-blanch is a global operations and strategy leader with 15+ years scaling education and tech-focused businesses across Europe, APAC and North America. As founder of BrightKind and former VP/COO at General Assembly, he has a track record of designing scalable operating models, leading multi-market expansions, and turning complex restructurings into sustained profitability. He combines hands-on P&L management and contract negotiation experience with a talent for building distributed leadership teams and governance that work across time zones. His background in diplomacy and Asia strategy, plus graduate study in China and at Johns Hopkins SAIS, gives him uncommon strength in cross-cultural market entry and policy-sensitive deals. Fluent in five languages, he pairs a global network with a pragmatic, people-centred approach to operational transformation. He drinks an unreasonable amount of tea—evidence of stamina in long strategic sprints.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Sino-American Studies, M.A. Sino-American Studies at Nanjing UniversityUndergraduate International Business/Trade/Commerce, Undergraduate International Business/Trade/Commerce at Singapore Management UniversityB.B.A. International Business, B.B.A. International Business at HEC MontréalGraduate Degree Chinese Language and Culture, Graduate Degree Chinese Language and Culture at Peking UniversityWeb Development Immersive Ruby on Rails Javascript HTML CSS, Web Development Immersive Ruby on Rails Javascript HTML CSS at General AssemblyM.A. International Relations, M.A. International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
English, French, Chinese, Spanish, German, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
x509certificates6
trust4
open-data4
certificate-generation4
ruby4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jdeslangles/ember_blog
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
jdeslangles/project3
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:100 commits in 10 days
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