Our team

The people behind Pilea

Founders, engineers, operators and sellers building continuous, AI-powered UX monitoring for e-commerce teams.

Baptiste Vanpoperinghe

CEO & Co-founder

Baptiste built his consulting expertise through a gap-year internship, then founded his own consulting agency helping European e-commerce businesses identify website bugs — the experience that led to Pilea — before joining UC Berkeley.Read more
  • SKEMA Business School — Economics & Management
  • UC Berkeley SCET — Entrepreneurship, Technology & Startup Management
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Amaury Grange

COO & Co-founder

A self-described lifelong entrepreneur, Amaury previously built a marketplace for rare and collectible items, traveling across Europe, the US, and Canada for the venture.Read more
  • SKEMA Business School — Economics & Management
  • UC Berkeley SCET — Entrepreneurship, Technology & Startup Management
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Leadership & team

Building Pilea every day

Ionut “Nick” Micicoi

Chief Technology Officer
Nick leads engineering and product at Pilea, bringing 7+ years as a full-stack developer and 3 years in project management. He has helped scale five startups from early prototype to real traction, and now builds Pilea's AI analysis pipeline end-to-end — from LLM integration to the infrastructure that runs it at scale.Read more
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • AI/LLM engineering

Oriane Perri

Chief of Staff
New York
Oriane drives fundraising, investor relations, and storytelling at Pilea, and built our CRM from scratch. She holds a Master's in International Marketing & Business Development from SKEMA Business School, and previously worked in international business development, supporting French companies' growth across the US market.Read more

Axel Guiral

Sales

Brings experience from Salesforce, along with an extensive background in startup sales.

Daniyal Malik

Head of QA Ops
Daniyal leads QA operations at Pilea, with a background as a Quality Assurance Tester specializing in manual and automated testing (including Cypress), functional and regression testing, and exploratory QA. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iqra University.Read more

Nelia Myhlovets

QA Engineer

Nelia brings over 10 years of experience in QA testing, helping ensure Pilea's platform stays reliable and accurate at scale.

Ihor Khuryanskyi

QA Engineer

Ihor brings over 10 years of experience in QA testing, with a strong focus on catching edge cases before they reach customers.

Advisors

Guided by people who've done it before

Thibault Gossé

Advisor

Chief Data Officer at Floa.

  • Floa
  • MIT

Ema Vidak Friedman

Advisor

Business & International Disputes Advisor.

  • Columbia
  • Harvard
  • 37 Angels

Layla Royer

Advisor

Sales, Institutional Equity Derivatives.

  • Citadel
  • Cornell University

Jérôme Sutter

Advisor

Chief Growth Officer at Pileje.

  • Pileje

Offices

On both sides of the Atlantic

The Industrious coworking space: wood-panelled lounge and kitchen area

New York

Industrious at Newport Tower525 Washington Blvd, Suite 300Jersey City, NJ 07310
Pilea's Lille office: bright open workspace with a long wooden desk and a glass-walled meeting room

France

679 Avenue de la République59800 Lille, France

Want to talk to the team?

Reach the founders directly at founders@pilea.co, or read how Pilea got here.

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