Rachid Sefrioui
Managing Director | Finaventures
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Anchor your Leadership. Motivate your Team. Boost your Entrepreneurship.
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Biography
Based in Paris and Los Angeles, Public Speaker Rachid Sefrioui delivers his talks in English or French.
Rachid Sefrioui is the Managing Director of Finaventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 1999. In the last 20 years, he has backed over 30 startups and growth companies that collectively grew sales to over $450 million, among which he was the Founding CEO of an 18-company integration to create a Regional Technology leader.
He's earned his stripes early in his career by working for McKinsey & Co and for financial houses such as Bowco Investment and Wafatrust Credit Agricole Indosuez. He earned a degree in management & operations research from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rachid is the charismatic face of Finaventures. He travels the world as a Public Speaker to spread the word about Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Anchoring at conferences and motivation seminars.
But he’s more than a chief evangelist – Rachid is a sought-after consultant as the “big picture” guy with a detail-oriented mind, turning laser-like focus to solve complex strategic and operational problems. He has the skills, knowledge, and experience to back up the message.
Industry Expertise (9)
Financial Services
IT Services/Consulting
Corporate Leadership
Investment Management
VC and Private Equity
International Trade and Development
Information Technology and Services
Fund-Raising
Management Consulting
Areas of Expertise (10)
Venture Capital
Growth Capital
Fundraising
Entrepreneurship
Rollups
Merger Integration
Family Office
Startups
Innovation
Investment
Accomplishments (1)
White-water rafting as a Team Building exercice (personal)
2010-06-09
Led a team of 32 executives from my 18 portfolio companies on a 3-day whitewater rafting trip to build team cohesiveness, trust, determination and leadership. An incredible learning experience where being between life and death at any turn down the river brought out people's instincts and recognition.
Education (1)
Case Western Reserve University: B.S., Management; Operations Research
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Testimonials (2)
Dave Shepard, CEO | Sequoia Communications
"Rachid has one of the best strategic minds I have encountered, which is critical in his position. He has a rare ability to synthesize a wide range of information into a single strategic vision."
Salah Eddine Benzakour , TEDx Organizer | TEDx Alsace
Rachid delivered a moving talk at TEDxAlsace. His topic, "Find Your Personal Anchor", deeply touched many of the entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs in the 350-member audience. We were so pleased we are going to use Rachid again as a public speaker in our future events.” Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, High Integrity
Event Appearances (22)
Featured Speaker: "Find the Anchor Within"
TEDx Alsace Mulhouse, France
2011-11-30
Featured Speaker: "Fundraising for Entrepreneurs"
The Entrepreneur Forum Paris, France
2011-03-14
Keynote Speaker: "Embracing the SaaS Migration"
2010 MED-IT Technology Conference & Tradeshow Casablanca
2010-10-08
Keynote Speaker: "Trust your Entrepreneurial Instincts"
ESCP Europe Business School - Entrepreneurs' Association Paris, France
2010-05-17
Keynote Speaker: "Reinvented as a Cash-less Society"
CardAfrica Conference & Trade Show Tunis, Tunisia
2010-03-31
Keynote Speaker: "e-Citizen Services & Accountability"
IDC Transformation Technologies : Government Innovations Rabat, Morocco
2010-03-28
Joint Keynote with Finance Minister: "The Economics of a Web Society"
Association pour le Progres des Dirigeants [CEO Leadership Forum] Casablanca
2010-01-04
Keynote Speaker: "Offshoring North to South as a Balancing Economic Mechanism"
Offshoring Forum at the Four Seasons Paris, France
2009-11-29
Keynote Speaker: "The Mobile Web as the New Frontier"
2009 MED IT Technology Conference & Tradeshow Casablanca
2009-10-29
Keynote Speaker & MC: "Unconditionally Serving Your Customer"
Finatech Forum Casablanca
2009-07-22
Keynote Speaker: "Technology transcends all Barriers"
2009 Annual Executive Banking Conference Casablanca
2009-04-20
Panelist: "The New SaaS Revolution"
InterFrench L'Executive Club (Silicon Valley Leaders Forum) San Francisco
2006-05-09
Featured Speaker: "From Innovation to Productization"
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum Los Angeles
2006-02-28
Featured Speaker: "The Balancing Act of Governance and Founder Management"
UCLA Law School's Venture Seminar Los Angeles
2005-10-12
Featured Speaker: "Southern California Venture Market - Dynamics"
Los Angeles Venture Association Los Angeles
2005-09-18
Speaker: "From Innovation to Productization"
Silicon Valley Bank - Connect for Innovation Conference San Diego, CA
2005-06-21
Keynote Speaker: "The Borderless Innovation"
Silicon Valley Forum Rabat, Morocco
2004-11-30
Speaker: "Venture Economics, 3 years after the Bubble"
PricewaterhouseCoopers' MoneyTree series Los Angeles, CA
2004-04-18
Keynote Speaker: "Trust your Entrepreneurial Instincts"
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
2003-11-08
Featured Speaker, Not All Innovation is Equal
MIT Enterprise Forum - Los Angeles, CA
2002-10-01
Featured Speaker: "Scaling a Software Startup past $20M"
Technology Council of Southern California Los Angeles
2001-03-13
Featured Speaker: "The Telecom Privatization Race in the MENA Region"
The Annual EUROMONEY Conference Casablanca
1997-09-23
Sample Talks (1)
Founders: Find your Personal Anchor
View it on YouTube, and activate captions for English Subtitles : http://youtu.be/He_HLBhBICE
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- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
- Corporate Training
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