Fabrice Sergent
CEO
Fabrice Sergent, one of Europe?s web pioneers, is now bringing his talents back across the Atlantic as the Chief Executive Officer of New York-based Cellfish Media LLC, a leading digital content production, marketing and distribution company with subsidiaries in Germany and France. As the CEO & founder of Cellfish Media LLC, Mr. Sergent has led innovative multi-branded properties to market and launched the world?s first wireless record label, Blingtones, all while generating over nine-figure revenue marks annually for the company. Mr. Sergent?s entrepreneurial spirit started early, with the creation of a comic book fair in his hometown Maisons Laffitte at the age of seventeen. Fabrice Sergent discovered the vast potential of the Internet during an exchange program at Michigan State University. With the support of Arnaud Lagardere, he founded one of the first web agencies in France, Studio Grolier, at age twenty-two, and then Club Internet at age twenty four, the first consumer internet service provider ever launched in France. From 1995 to 2002, he served as Chairman and CEO of Club Internet, which was later purchased by Deutsche Telecom?s T-Online for an historical 1.2b? transaction, a landmark deal in the European new media space for its time. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Sergent served as the CEO of Lagardere Active Broadband, the digital arm of Lagardere SCA, one of the largest media groups of the world, with properties in books (Warner Books), publishing (Hachette Filipacchi Media), Internet, TV and radio. Mr. Sergent also served in senior capacities with European media organizations including the executive committee of Lagardère Active (radio/TV) as well as a supervisory board member of T-Online International (Deutsche Telekom group). He is currently a director for Europe1 Interactive and Le Monde Interactif, France?s leading national newspaper?s new media subsidiary. Mr. Sergent graduated from the Institut National des Télécommunications (France) and studied Finance and Telecommunication at Michigan State University.