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Description
Christian VAN GYSEL has built a robust international career spanning more than three decades in the telecommunications industry, combining large-scale operational leadership, innovation, and ecosystem building. Early in his career, he gained strong international exposure through a two-and-a-half-year expatriation in Nigeria, where he managed a full turnkey telecommunications network project worth several hundred million dollars.
Over the past 15 years, Christian has become a key connector within the Paris-Saclay innovation ecosystem. In 2006, he took on a leading role within Finance & Technologie, now Paris-Saclay Business Angels, an association founded in 1999 and member of the France Angels federation. Through this role, he has helped identify innovative startups, support entrepreneurs, and connect them with business angels, investment funds, and corporate partners through initiatives such as Techinnov and Paris-Saclay Invest.
In parallel, he has been involved in major entrepreneurial and community-building initiatives. In 2015, he co-founded TEDxSaclay, now one of the leading TEDx events in France, dedicated to science, technology, innovation, and society. Through TEDxSaclay and its community of “iConnecteurs,” Christian has fostered inspiration, dialogue, and collaboration across disciplines and borders.
In 2026, Christian founded LeX in Action, a venture dedicated to designing international learning expeditions and innovation immersions connecting ecosystems, entrepreneurs, corporates, and territories.
Deeply committed to entrepreneurship, innovation, and territorial attractiveness, Christian continues to help ideas, people, and ecosystems grow together in Paris-Saclay and beyond.
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