Akeneo continues to invest in the future of commerce with strategic leadership appointments. Sep 30, 2026, 7:00 AM ET New leadership across Customer Success, Marketing and Global Center of Excellence strengthens Akeneo's investment in the U.S. market as it accelerates into the next era of AI-powered commerce BOSTON, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) company and leading provider of Product Cloud solutions, today announced three leadership appointments across Customer Success, Marketing and its Center of Excellence, as it invests in its next phase of growth with its U.S. customers at the center. Jean Lethuillier has joined as Vice President of Customer Success, based in Boston. She joins Carole Offredo, Chief Marketing Officer, and Edouard Dewulf, Senior Director, Global Center of Excellence, adding expertise in customer success, AI and forward-deployed engineers. "Commerce is entering a new phase, and we are investing now in the people, technology and expertise for Akeneo to lead that change," said Romain Fouache, CEO of Akeneo. "Our customers are preparing for a world where AI engines and agents play a much greater role in how products are discovered and purchased. Strengthening our global leadership, and more particularly in the U.S., is about helping them make that transition successfully as we massively accelerate Akeneo's pace for what comes next." Strengthening Customer Impact in the U.S. Jean Lethuillier was most recently SVP of Customer Success at Zoovu. She previously held customer and partner success leadership roles at Sherpa, Cybereason, XING/kununu and Fuze, after starting her career in consulting at PwC China. She has turned post-sales organizations into drivers of retention, expansion and revenue growth. At Akeneo, she will focus on customer outcomes and the company's growing enterprise base. "The U.S. is already at the heart of Akeneo's business, and it is also where we see commerce evolving fastest," said Jean Lethuillier, Vice President of Customer Success at Akeneo. "As AI transforms how products get discovered and purchased, our customer success team has a real opportunity: to turn product data into measurable outcomes for our customers, not just as a post-sale function, but as something that actively drives their growth." Adding AI and Enterprise Transformation Expertise Carole Offredo joins as Chief Marketing Officer after a decade at Dataiku, where she helped build and scale the marketing organization as the company grew into a global enterprise AI company. At Akeneo, she will lead marketing as the company brings its agentic Product Cloud to enterprise customers, with a focus on the U.S. Edouard Dewulf joins as Senior Director, Global Center of Excellence, after seven years at Accenture Song leading digital, commerce and Product Experience Management transformations for major organizations. With more than 15 years in digital services, including years working with Akeneo from the partner side, he strengthens Akeneo's ability to support enterprise customers. "Product data is becoming a foundational infrastructure component for the enterprise, particularly as AI changes how products are discovered, managed and brought to market," said Edouard Dewulf, Senior Director, Global Center of Excellence at Akeneo. "Our Center of Excellence and Forward Deployed Engineers are about making enterprises ready for that shift, bringing deep technical and transformation expertise closer to customers so they can build the product data foundations they need for what comes next." Investing for What Comes Next The appointments follow a year of product investment. Akeneo acquired PricingHUB to bring product data and pricing together as two signals for discovery, relevance, conversion and business performance, and introduced Agentic Ziggy in its Summer 2026 Release, an agentic UI layer within Akeneo Product Cloud that governs and coordinates specialized AI agents across the product data lifecycle. Akeneo was also the top-ranked vendor in the July 2026 Product Information Management Data Quadrant from Info-Tech SoftwareReviews and an Exemplary Vendor in the 2026 ISG Buyers Guide reports for both Product Information Management Platforms and Product Experience Management. About Akeneo Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader with its Product Cloud solutions, providing the foundational operating system for the AI commerce era. With its agentic Product Cloud, Akeneo enables brands, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to centralize, govern, and orchestrate their product information, transforming fragmented data into trusted, actionable assets. With the integration of PricingHUB, Akeneo extends its platform beyond product data to unify product data and pricing - the two signals that drive discovery, conversion, and business performance. Together, Akeneo helps organizations move from managing product information to making better business decisions, aligning what they sell and how they sell it to compete and win in a rapidly evolving, AI-driven market. Leading global brands, including Chico's, TaylorMade Golf, Rail Europe, and more, trust Akeneo to scale their commerce initiatives and deliver consistent, high-performing product experiences. For more information: https://www.akeneo.com SOURCE Akeneo NOTE: This content is not written by or endorsed by "KSWB", its advertisers, or Nexstar Media Inc.

citybiz+ french startup Biolevate raises €30M to expand to Boston. September 24, 2026 Paris: Biolevate, an AI startup for life sciences, secures 30 million euros in Series A funding to deepen its regulated pharma workflow solutions and open a Boston office, aiming to automate documentation and regulatory processes with evidence-grade AI systems for research and drug development. Biolevate CEO Joël Belafa (r) at a trade show. (Courtesy: Biolevate) Biolevate, the Paris-based startup building AI software for life sciences companies, said it has raised 30 million euros in Series A funding as it pushes deeper into regulated pharma workflows and prepares to open a Boston office. The round was co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, with additional backing from MSD Global Health Innovation Fund, Station F and returning investor EQT Ventures. Startup.eu reported that RAISE France's Aymar Hénin will become chairman of Biolevate's board, while Orange executive Jérôme Berger will join as a board member. Founded by former Dataiku engineers and AI researchers, the company is led by co-founder and CEO Joël Belafa, a former director of engineering at Dataiku. Biolevate is targeting scientific and regulatory work that has traditionally depended on manual review, documentation and cross-checking. The company says its platform is designed to turn complex domain knowledge into "evidence-grade" workflows that preserve human oversight while making AI usable in highly regulated settings. At the center of the product is what Biolevate calls an Evidence Trail, a system that tcks the sources, decisions and steps behind AI-generated output, along with the person who validated it. The company says the setup is meant to help users in research, clinical development, regulatory submissions and drug discovery produce documents that remain traceable and auditable. Biolevate also says its software supports protocol drafting and clinical study report, or CSR, collaboration by pairing AI-generated first drafts with linked source material. That approach is meant to replace the start-from-scratch drafting process with a review-and-approval model, while maintaining consistency with regulatory guidelines across markets. Orange said its own investment reflects a broader push to strengthen innovation in life sciences. The telecom group described Biolevate's technology as part of a wider wave of agentic AI, software that can plan and execute tasks with a degree of autonomy, while still relying on verified scientific and regulatory knowledge. Orange said the technology can be used across the drug development and market access pipeline. The company also said Biolevate will work with Enovalife, a unit under Orange Business, on automating protocol and CSR creation and on regulatory bridging, the process of adapting documents to country-specific requirements. Biolevate said the funding will help it expand internationally, deepen product development and scale deployments with large life sciences customers. The company also plans to establish a foothold in Boston, putting it closer to the US pharmaceutical market as investors continue to back enterprise AI tools built for tightly controlled industries. [Noah Wire Services helped in the writing of this article.]

Radware, Dataiku deliver AI security controls for enterprise AI deployments. Radware, a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments, announced a partnership with Dataiku, the Platform for AI Success, to integrate Radware's application, AI and API security capabilities into Dataiku's platform. The combined solution is designed to enable enterprises to monitor, inspect, and help control AI-driven actions across applications, APIs, and data, addressing a growing need to secure AI systems as they move into production. The collaboration brings Radware's AI guardian agent services into AI initiatives earlier, expanding beyond traditional security budgets and creating new entry points into enterprise stakeholders, including security and risk teams. Dataiku's governance and orchestration layer gives Radware a natural entry point into the enterprise. This broadens Radware's participation in enterprise technology investments while extending Dataiku's platform with security capabilities designed for production-scale AI deployments. As AI systems begin executing actions across APIs, data, and business workflows, new risks emerge, including unauthorized activity, data exposure, and abuse of connected systems. Radware integrates into Dataiku's platform designed to monitor, inspect, and help control these actions in real time, giving organizations a control point at execution visibility to help enforce policy and help prevent unintended or malicious behavior. The combined solution is designed to give organizations greater control over how AI systems behave in production, aimed at reducing the risk of unauthorized actions, data exposure, and compliance gaps, while extending Dataiku's platform with runtime security enforcement. For example, Radware is designed to detect and block goal hijacking attempts, and Dataiku analyzes the signal, helps identify the source, and facilitates remediation designed to help organizations to move from detection to response and strengthen security at scale. Travis Volk, vice president, global technology solutions, Radware AI systems are moving from generating output to executing actions across enterprise systems. Security teams need visibility and control at the point of execution. This partnership extends enforcement to where AI risk actually occurs. Hugo Sheng, VP of Strategic Technology Alliances, Dataiku Enterprises are rapidly operationalizing AI across critical business processes. By integrating Radware's runtime security controls, we are helping customers ensure their AI systems remain secure and controlled as they execute in real-world environments. Ray Sharma is an Industry Analyst and Editor at The Fast Mode. He has over 15 years of experience in mobile broadband technologies and solutions, conducting research and analysis on various technology segments and producing articles and write-ups on the latest developments within the sector. He is also in charge of social media engagement and industry liaisons. The Fast Mode 9658 likes TWEETS 28.4K FOLLOWING 3479 FOLLOWERS 13.2K