Simon Gazikian

Simon Gazikian is a French software-industry executive and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of commercial, operational and executive experience at both listed and private B2B software companies across Europe and the United States. Earlier in his career he held principal-level roles at Compuware Corp., Unisys Corp. and Micromuse, Inc., served as Vice President at Axiom Systems Ltd., Esmertec AG and UDcast SA, was Vice President of International Sales at OpenPeak, and was President at Tedemis SA. He studied engineering at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon and earned a graduate degree at an Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE).

He is the founder (and former CEO) of MyDataModels SAS, an auto-machine-learning company he co-founded with Alain Blancquart and Denis Bastiment. Since 2019—publicly announced in early 2020—he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Amiral Technologies, a Grenoble-based deeptech startup founded in 2017 by Mazen Alamir and Katia Hilal that builds predictive-maintenance and anomaly-detection software (its "DiagFit" technology) for industrial IIoT applications. At various points he has also been associated with Amiral as Chief Operating Officer.

Alongside his operating roles, Gazikian is listed as an executive/affiliate of White Castle Partners, a Monaco-headquartered advisory and accelerator firm (with offices in London, Dubai and New York) that emphasizes impact and "socially responsible" investing, helps high-growth startups raise capital, and connects founders with investors, customers and executive talent. His verified contact email sits on the firm's domain, which is the basis for his "angel investor / seed" positioning.

He is separately documented as an angel investor, with a recorded personal investment in the French edtech/electronics company Unowhy.

• Invests at the seed stage, consistent with an operator-angel profile rather than a fund-deploying GP.
• Strongest affinity for what he knows best: B2B / enterprise software, industrial AI, machine learning and IIoT/deeptech—the domains spanning MyDataModels and Amiral Technologies.
• Through White Castle Partners, exposure broadens to impact-oriented and consumer/fintech sectors (the firm cites portfolio names such as Ledger, Coinify and Icelandic Glacial and themes including agrifood, mobility, proptech and lifestyle brands).
• Likely value-add is operational: 30+ years of go-to-market, international sales and CEO/COO experience scaling software companies in Europe and the US—useful to technical founders who need commercial and fundraising help.