Virtuo

Karim Kaddoura is co-founder and CEO of Virtuo.

A graduate of Tufts University in Boston & LSE London, Karim also holds a Master's degree from SciencesPo Paris. Born in Beirut, and raised in Paris, Karim is passionate about cars as a symbol of freedom and is determined to create experiences customers love and our cities need.

Jean is graduated from EM Lyon with a background in corporate finance and entrepreneurship in the logistics sector. He joined Virtuo in 2017 to head up operations in France. He manages the “Ops” team on a daily basis, a real conductor who allows Virtuo to offer new, clean cars, available at the right time and in the right place in more and more rental points.

Aarti completed her higher studies in India and has 4 years of experience while working with Accenture both in India and the United Kingdom.

After moving to Paris she worked with Thanksys for a year and finally joined Virtuo as Software Quality Assurance Lead (Our First english speaker) and is responsible for setting up QA processes for the team , ensuring our product is of high quality and functionally robust for our customers.

After graduating from Ireland's Dublin Institute of Technology, Fergus quickly moved into the growing tech industry of Dublin. From there, he moved to Paris in 2018 to join the fast emerging tech scene of Paris.

Since then Fergus has continued to prove his Product Management chops by joining a fast-growing Series A start-up in the PaaS space before joining Virtuo in February of 2022, where he continues to drive the Product's Growth roadmap and strategy whilst collaborating closely with stakeholders around him.

Julie worked for several startups as Head of Marketing before switching to the developer profession in 2020. The following year, she joined the Virtuo Tech team as a Fullstack Developer. As a member of the Customer tribe, she is now in charge of maintaining and evolving the company's front web platforms (website and back office) by offering the best possible experience to our users.

Marie joined Virtuo end of 2020 after 20 years in Consulting and in the tech industry. After graduating from ESSEC, she joined the consulting firm Roland Berger, then moved to eBay and PayPal where she led marketing for Continental Europe and Middle East Africa. At Virtuo, Marie is leading the Marketing team across our 6 markets, as well as our Virtuo for Business team.

Monica has a master's degree in international business from PPA, a 100% work-study business school.

After more than 3 years in a digital consulting firm, she decided to move towards service and innovative companies and thus joined the Virtuo adventure.

Today, within the Virtuo for Business team, she is in charge of development within companies for their business travelers.

With her team, she aims to make Virtuo known in the world of Business Travel.

Xavier graduated with a computing science degree from the UTC (université de Technologie de Compiègne) with a networking and distributed systems specialization.

Xavier joined Virtuo In 2019 as the first "DevOps" engineer to help the tech team solve complex and technical challenges.

Today, his role is to design, build, and maintain the production runtime platform. To improve the developer experience and delivery chain. Also to share knowledge and practices regarding performance and reliability principles. He is driven to never stop learning and improving our technical stack, practices, and working methods.

Violette joined Virtuo for her last internship during her study in digital businesses and logistics.

Today, Violette is working full-time as a Fleet Operations Executive, with an important role to make sure that our cars arrive at the right time, in the right place for our customers in France.