Olivier Manuel is Director of Content at Samsung Electronics America, where he pioneered the launch of Samsung's connected TV products--first with the InfoLink service in 2008 and then with Yahoo Widgets in 2009--achieving a #1 market share in the connected TV category. Most recently, he launched Samsung Apps, the first app store for TVs and Blu-ray players.

Olivier has experience leading successful innovation projects in the US, Europe, and Asia for companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 100. Prior to Samsung, he worked as an entrepreneur on two successful venture-backed startups. He was a member of the management team at Self Trade (www.selftrade.co.uk), a pan-European online brokerage platform that was sold to DAB Bank for $900 million in 2000, and wrote the business plan for Poweo (www.poweo.fr), a French electricity retailer that IPO'ed in 2005.

Olivier is an alumni of Goldman Sachs and is an avid investor and member of Joel Greenblatt's Value Investors Club. He lives New York where he is active in the NY technology community and environmental and energy-policy reform. He has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BA with honors from Harvard College.