Olivier Mével (born April 27, 1967) is a French Internet of Things pioneer. An engineer by training, he is a serial entrepreneur and businessman with an interest in building interactive web-connected objects. Mével is the co-inventor of ''
Nabaztag
Nabaztag (Armenian for "hare", նապաստակ (''napastak'')) is a Wi-Fi enabled ambient electronic device in the shape of a rabbit, invented by Rafi Haladjian and Olivier Mével, and manufactured by the company Violet. Nabaztag was design ...
'', a Wi-Fi enabled ambient electronic device in the shape of a rabbit.
In 2012, Mével was named one of 100 French digital influencers and, in 2014, one of 20 French personalities that made an impact on the Internet of Things.
Career
Mével graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA ParisTech) in 1990. In 1995, he co-founded BaBeL@STaL, one of the first French digital agencies, with Philippe Feinsilber.
In 2000, he was a member of the Kasskooye.com team, a then popular French website that parodied the new economy, under the pseudonym of Igmar Andersen.
In 2003, he co-founded Violet with
Rafi Haladjian
Rafi Haladjian ( hy, Րաֆֆի Հալաջյան) born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1961) is a French serial entrepreneur of Armenian origin. He is the co-creator of the wireless-connected rabbit Nabaztag, a smart object of the Internet of Things. He i ...
, which created
Nabaztag
Nabaztag (Armenian for "hare", նապաստակ (''napastak'')) is a Wi-Fi enabled ambient electronic device in the shape of a rabbit, invented by Rafi Haladjian and Olivier Mével, and manufactured by the company Violet. Nabaztag was design ...
, an interactive and internet-connected object launched in 2005 and the RFID reader Mir:ror. He's listed as inventor on 2 patents related to ambient and connected devices.
In 2009, he co-founded reaDIYmate with Marc Chareyron . The reaDIYmate DIY kits were successfully launched and manufactured in 2012 on Kickstarter. The duo also created TeleSound which, on its preliminary campaign, did not gather sufficient funds for full-scale manufacturing and is awaiting future re-launch.
The Mével/ Chareyron collaboration produced Enero; a design & technology consultancy focusing on the Internet of Things.
Mével is a mentor for the hardware accelerator program
Haxlr8r and a co-organizer of the Internet of Things Paris Meetups (#iotparis).
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References
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Living people
French businesspeople
1967 births