The driving force behind your online store
PrestaShop allows ambitious entrepreneurs and companies to create and develop their own ecommerce site. Our open source software unites a global community.
About PrestaShop
With nearly 300,000 sites already using its software across the globe, PrestaShop is the leading open source ecommerce solution in Europe and Latin America.
In 2021, PrestaShop sites generated more than 24 billion euros in online sales. Starting from November 2021 PrestaShop became part of the global family of MBE Worldwide to accelerate its growth and become together the leading global ecommerce and logistics platforms for businesses.
Our mission
As a key partner in the digitalization of commerce, PrestaShop aims to become the reference commerce platform for the growth of businesses around the world, by building on its values: audacity, proximity, tenacity, and engagement.
Thanks to PrestaShop Essentials, its suite of modules that offers secure payment solutions worldwide, performance analysis and web marketing, and PrestaShop Platform, its hosting offer, PrestaShop allows companies to easily deploy their business on a larger scale.
Executive committee
Paolo Fiorelli
Chairman and CEO of MBE Worldwide and CEO of PrestaShop
Paolo Fiorelli joined MBE at the end of 1993. He has been Chief Executive Officer of MBE Italy and other European subsidiaries since 2001, CEO of MBE Worldwide since its inception in 2009, and he became its Chairman in 2016. Paolo is also CEO of both AlphaGraphics Inc. and PostNet Inc., MBE’s US based affiliates. Prior to MBE, Paolo was a Senior Executive with BNL Investment Bank and Coopers & Lybrand and founder and CEO of Finint Spa, a Western Union agent for Italy, Spain and UK (the company was ultimately sold to Western Union in 2011). He graduated in Business Administration from Luigi Bocconi University in Milan.
Vlad Mihalca
Chief Transformation Officer of MBE Worldwide and Deputy CEO of PrestaShop
Vlad Mihalca joined MBE in February 2022 as Chief Transformation Officer, being responsible for the Group’s digital transformation, leading the integration between MBE traditional core business and Prestashop. Prior to MBE, Vlad was Head of Digital for Poste Italiane Group where he also covered since 2012 several leadership positions in the Digital Payments and Digital Banking areas. Previously, he covered management positions in the IT and Marketing departments in the Telco Industry. Vlad holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer & Electronic Engineering from University of L’Aquila (1995) and earned a Masters Degree in Informatics and Telecommunications at the Turin Polytechnics (1996).
Éric Sénéchal
Managing Director
Drive the company's development, seize new growth opportunities and maintain strategic partnerships
After graduating from EISTI, he began his career at Essilor International, where he was responsible for choosing new technologies within the IT department. He then took charge of the associated developments for ESSILOR Europe. After managing two agencies in the field of new technologies and ecommerce, he then founded a start-up specialized in managing the commercial performance of ecommerce sites. Thanks to his experience as a PrestaShop solution integrator and then as an editor, he joined PrestaShop at the beginning of 2020 as VP Engineering, then became CTO.
At the end of 2022, Eric took over the management of PrestaShop and has been leading the development of the business ever since, relying on his international experience, his in-depth knowledge of the PrestaShop ecosystem, his entrepreneurial background and the solidity of his career as head of the PrestaShop technical teams.
Annabelle Freret
Chief People Officer
To take up the challenge of hypergrowth by developing the potential of teams and the collective and to grow the values of PrestaShop
After a Master's degree in Business School and an MBA in Human Resources Management at ENS Cachan, Annabelle has built a career marked by the international. She started her career in international mobility and compensation & benefits both in consulting and in large international groups. Since then, she has taken on more extensive responsibilities in human resources management in France and internationally in groups with strong growth, retention and talent attraction challenges such as Adagio - Accor Group -, then in digital marketing and performance at Tradedoubler. Since 2017, she has held HR management positions in highly competitive sectors such as Technicolor and Interxion. Annabelle joined PrestaShop in June 2022 as Chief People Officer with the mission to effectively address the structural challenges of a fast-growing company and accelerate the deployment of its strategy in a benevolent manner, at the crossroads of team development and the company's business challenges.
Sophie Ancely
Chief Sales & Operations Officer
Generate value for all our partners and support the growth of our merchants by deploying a high quality customer and partner experience, on a daily basis
Since graduating from ESSEC MBA in 2001, Sophie always wanted to participate to the growth of online commerce. She joined actors such as HP or PayPal, in 2006, before creating her Fashiontech company - MyVestiaire. During her 20 years in tech and ecommerce, including 11 at PayPal, Sophie set up and scaled sales teams for France, before taking responsibility for the development of PayPal in the Scandinavian region and being appointed Director Cross Border Trade in Europe, to grow the business generated by all international transactions. Convinced that an inclusive and diverse culture generates richer ideas and leads to more robust execution, Sophie has been actively involved in the development of Diversity & Inclusion actions, for which she was a PayPal spokesperson. Sophie joined PrestaShop in November 2022 as Chief Sales & Operations Officer.
Pawel Visor
Chief Marketing Officer
To make PrestaShop stand out in the world thanks to the success of our merchants and the expertise of our community
With several experiences mixing the co-creation of startups (Hamalin.com in 2005 and Brainify in 2015), as well as the marketing management of companies of various sizes (Bivea in 2008 and Mydesign.com in 2010), Pawel specialized early on in the ecommerce sector.
He joined PrestaShop in January 2020 to bring a growth marketing vision, and help PrestaShop to grow.
In October 2022, he is appointed Chief Marketing Officer to structure and drive a marketing vision in line with PrestaShop's growth and positioning objectives.
Pierre-Olivier Calande
Chief Product Officer
Develop the product culture, user knowledge and vision of the PrestaShop ecosystem
As an engineer by training, he began his career in consulting where he developed skills in user experience (UX), particularly in the retail sector (cosmetics, food, automotive,etc.). In 2010, he founded Digikaa, a social network for online professionals. He then joined Auchan:Direct, where he is in charge of redesigning the ecommerce customer experience. In the last few years, he has developed extensive product expertise - acquired in the retail sector - in addition to his business experience at Renault Digital. Pierre-Olivier joined PrestaShop in 2020 as VP Product, then became CPO.
Nicolas Rousseau-Dumarcet
Chief Financial Officer
Leading PrestaShop's financial and legal teams
After a Master degree in Management from ESCP Europe in 2005, Nicolas started his career as Financial Controller at Dictao and then joined Atos Origin as Head of Reporting before being promoted to Group Finance Controller. He also held the position of CEMEA Finance Controller at LexisNexis Group from 2014 to 2015. Nicolas' first appointment as CFO will be at Tradelab (2016 and 2020), with the main task of structuring the financial side of the programmatic platform. He was also CFO of KissKissBank & Co, from 2020 to 2022. Nicolas joined PrestaShop in early 2022 as Chief Finance and Legal Officer.
Rémi Dewitte
Chief Technical Officer
To manage technological excellence and deliver the open source software, its extensions, its distribution platform as well as the PrestaShop information system
As CTO and co-founder of Synako, he delivers SaaS products and helps CEOs and CIOs to architect their next generation IS/IT. Interested in software engineering since he was 10 years old, he owns a computer science master degree and also has an MBA specialized in innovation. Convinced that software can accelerate business transformations, augment people and make the world a better place, his expertise is mainly in enterprise and technology architectures. Beyond this passion, he has also learned to be a team leader.
He successfully delivered a platform used to mission tow trucks for the car assistance industry. He helped major companies to build their business technology platforms and deliver mission-critical software in complex environments: ADEO, Engie, La Redoute, Rubix, BNP Paribas, Renault, AXA, BPCE, etc.
He lives in France. He reads a lot about how to be a good father to his four lively children and has the opportunity to train every day.
Life @ PrestaShop
Work like a Captain
Play like a Pirate
Our culture
We are passionate about the web, ecommerce, coding, open source, and are fully committed to both our community and our partners.
PrestaShop's offices are located in the heart of Paris, in the central and active 9th district of the capital. The PrestaShop teams reunite and work from the top floor of a fully renovated building, where they can enjoy a beautiful 360° view of Paris on the terrace.
The team
Like our community, the PrestaShop team is multicultural. This diversity is our strength. We share the same boldness, passion and open-mindedness and are constantly on the lookout for new talent and ideas.
Our goals are ambitious and our team evolves quickly, so we are always looking for new talent.
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