Christian graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He started his career at iPIN (online payment solution based in San Francisco, California) as Development Team Leader. He then held various positions in the IT industry at Dell, Unilog Management and IBM Global Services. Recently, Christian was in charge of Product Management and Corporate Marketing at Prima Solutions, software editor for the insurance. He joined François Bancilhon late 2010 to create Data Publica.