Jean-Georges Perrin

Jean-Georges Perrin (born 1971) is an IT serial-entrepreneur from Alsace, France. He was the longest standing elected board member of IIUG after Stuart Litel, the first non-US citizen elected to this board, and the first French IBM Champion, first French citizen to become an IBM Champion in 2009, along with Jean-Marc Blaise., and one of the 30 Lifetime IBM Champion.

IBM and IIUG
Perrin was elected at the Board of Directors of IIUG in 2002. Perrin has been the first In January 2023, his IBM Champion title was renewed for the 15th consecutive time.

Career
Perrin is an IT software engineer, lecturer, and serial entrepreneur. In 1995, he took part in the creation of Pandemonium, one of France's first commercial ISP to be located outside of the Paris area, later acquired by ISION. In 2002, he co-founded Awoma, an ISV specialized in making Java development easier. In 2006, he founded GreenIvory, a pioneer in Content Marketing tools. GreenIvory France and GreenIvory Luxembourg closed in January 2014, GreenIvory America closed a little later. In 2015, Perrin joined 2CRSI Corporation as Chief Operations Officer (COO)., Since 2016, Perrin is consulting in software engineering, big data, and Apache Spark. In 2021, Perrin joined PayPal and since then focuses on data mesh.

Publications and conferences
Perrin has contributed to the defunct DB2 Magazine, to The Futurist magazine co-author with Elizabeth D. Leone. Perrin co-authored with Frederic Collet-Hahn a book on the C programming language in August 1992, while a student at the now-Université de Strasbourg. More recently, he authored two ebooks on Informix. In 2020, he published Spark in Action, second edition covering data engineering with Spark and Java, Python, and Scala through Manning, the foreword was written by IBM’s Rob D. Thomas. In 2023, he published a book for kids titled Data Mesh for all ages focusing on data mesh for a vast audience. The book has been translated in several languages.

Perrin participates in numerous conferences and lectures at various schools and universities, including the Université de Strasbourg, Spark Summit., and more. Perrin is a regular speaker at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC.

Other recognitions
In 2012, Perrin was selected as one of 60 Alsatian entrepreneurs whose profiles were published in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of ADIRA, an agency that supports business in Alsace.

In 2024, after leaving PayPal in 2023, Perrin was named a PayPal Champion.