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Jerome Lecat is a French entrepreneur, CEO and founder of a Information technology, data storage company  Scality  based in San Francisco, California.12

Early Life & Career
Lecat studied engineering at one of the top engineering schools in France ENPC. He also hold's a research master’s degree in Cognitive Science from Paris Diderot University. After completing his education he joined a job in the stock market. He built automatic stock picking models during the job.3

1994 to 2003
In 1994, together with Olivier Dauchot and Olivier Lemarié, Jerome founded Internet-Way, an ISP focused on the enterprise market. Internet-Way was the France’s second-largest business at that time; three years later it was sold to UUNET for 20 times the invested capital.4

In 2001, Jerome became Chairman of the Board of Data Center Technology (DCT), a Belgium based start-up which developed a unique Content Addressable Storage (CAS) technology, especially for the backup market. In 2003, he founded Bizanga, an email Message transfer agent for service providers.5

2009 to Present
He sold Bizanga to Cloudmark in 2010 with a profit of 400 percent on the venture capital. Jerome and his colleagues Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King founded Scality in 2009.678 Jerome has supported En Marche and Macron presidential campaign since April 2016. 910

Philanthropy
Jerome lives in Mill Valley with his wife Anna. Together Anna and Jérôme created the Sugar Foundation to support artists, teachers, and entrepreneurs.11