About Us
Laurent Le Gourrierec, Managing Director
Laurent created Kerroch Advisory to bring to startups and larger companies his knowledge and practice in corporate and business development.
Most recently Laurent was Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Nokia, where he created and grew $100M+ sales alliances with Systems Integrators like Accenture, Atos, EY, and Infosys; IT firms like Dell, HPE, and VMware; and Verticals like Bosch and Altran. He also initiated partnerships with AWS and Microsoft.
In parallel he actively participated in the Boards of three Venture Capital firms: Team8 Enterprise (focused on cyber-security, based in Israel), Innovacom, and I-Source (both targeting early stage, based in France).
Prior, Laurent led the investments and acquisitions team at Alcatel-Lucent, each year assessing 400+ startups and pursuing 10+ transactions.
Laurent moved to the U.S. in 2001 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He graduated from CentraleSupelec (MSEE, major in Computer Science) and has furthered his education with a Certificate in Corporate Governance from SciencesPo as well as a Certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Stanford University.
Expertise includes:
Strategic Partnerships | Joint Go-To-Market Alliances | Sales | Business Development
P&L Management | Finance Operations | Product Management | Product Marketing
Investments | Acquisitions | Venture Capital | Corporate Governance | Due Diligence
Cloud Computing | Networking Infrastructure | Edge Cloud | 5G | Industrial IoT
