Maxence du Bellay Maxence Griffon du Bellay
Manager, a founding member
65 years

• Engineer graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées
• MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration - INSEAD
• From 1968 to 1997: Air France. Many senior positions in commercial, marketing and management in France and abroad.
• 1997 to 2006: Commercial Director of Air Seychelles. Working closely with operators in the tourism and hotel industry locally and overseas. Creating the website of Air Seychelles
• Since 2006: manager of Welcome Management Systems Ltd., a company publishing Internet marketing softwares like BeeNBiz and TouRBIZ for operators of small hotels, guest houses and excursion services.

Jean Paul Krebs
Commercial Director, a founding member
53 years

Consultant in tourism marketing. Managing director of L'Oiseau Migrateur, marketing agency dealing with airlines, tourism offices and hospitality businesses.

• Graduated in Journalism (Institute of Journalism Strasbourg) before turning to communication and event marketing and tourism. For several years director of "Marketing et Promotion des Etablissements" seminars organized by the Ministry of Youth & Sports for its regional management teams. Animation of numerous seminars for companies and elected officials.
• 1988-1994: Chairman-Founder and leader of Air Solidarité, the largest air rally to Africa.
• 1992: Author of the Guide de l'Evasion du Pilote, the only tourism guide in Europe for those practicing air tourism. 180 destinations described and commented in 20 countries. A sort of "Guide du Routard" for pilots ...
• 1995-2000: in charge of Marketing Operations in continental Europe of the British airline Air UK.
• Marketing Consultant for the UK Tourism Office in France and Belgium. Author of "Practical Guide to School Travel", guides which gained authority whith educational travel organizers.
• Since 1998: marketing events and publications for airlines (KLM, South African Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Aircalin, Air Seychelles, etc.)..
• Publisher since 1998 of the "Guide des compagnies aériennes" for Air France-KLM and the SkyTeam Alliance.
• 2005: Design of a CRM system (Customer Relationship Management ') based on the technology developped for the Internet sales of Air Seychelles.
• Creation of the on-line guide of airlines represented in France, professional tool for the travel trade.
• 2005-06: originated the BeeNBiz concept, an inovative system, based entirely on server, for on-line booking with a back-office management interface for hotels, guesthouses and holiday rentals.

Owner and manager of Clos de la Rose - a charming Bed and Breakfast on the edge of Ile de France and the Champagne vineyards - and of Les Remparts Riquewihr holiday rentals. These two properties are the live-size laboratory where the BeenBiz techniques are developed, with more than 3000 booking requests processed to date.

Richard Combet-Joly
Technical Director, a founding member
48 years

• A graduate of the University of Paris Dauphine. Master degree in Economics Applied to Management
• From 1983 to 1990: Project Management within large industrial construction and building companies: Bouygues, Razel.
• From 1990 to 1995: Associate Director of the SERCIB company, coordination of real estate projects
• From 1995: becomes independent consultant and specializes in electronic commerce and development of information systems for businesses.
• Design and programming of the "Amadeus" system, software designed for the management of audio-visual companies and used by the TV channels Arte and France 2.
• Developer of the online sale tool of the airline Air Seychelles.
• Design and implementation of the intranet tool of the Baracoda Company (technology products) for the management of its customer relations.
• Author of numerous e-commerce websites selling products and services (Textile, clothing, food, insurance, real estate, videos, ...)
• Since 2005: Designs and develops software BeeNBiz and TouRBiz softwares.