Charles-Henri Blanchet

CEO & Founder @ Manifest

About

Charles has served on the executive teams of five frontier technology startups, each backed by venture capital and now collectively valued at over $5 billion. He has guided more than 1,000 sensitive early-adopter clients, ranging from Lockheed Martin to the Executive Office of the President of the United States, in adopting cutting-edge technology solutions, including the world’s first always-on global flood and wildfire monitoring solutions. He holds a manufacturing degree from a leading U.S. university with an emphasis on the Theory of Constraints and has hands-on factory experience.

Country

France

City

Toulouse

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Government, Product Development, Product Management, Strategic Partnerships, Start-ups, Generative AI, go to market, Sales, Lead Generation, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Management, SaaS, Sales Process, Salesforce.com, Team Building, Strategy, Cold Calling, Program Management, Account Management

Experience

CEO & Founder

Manifest

2024-10 - Present · 2 yrs

Toulouse

Manifest is the first Humanoid Solution Purpose-Built for European Defence. Our mission is to enable strategic autonomy by deploying comprehensive country-specific humanoid solutions for European nations.

Founder

Natural Language Solution

2023-3 - 2025-2 · 2 yrs

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

- Researched and wrote about generative AI - Lead generative AI transformation projects with a law firm and insurance brokerage - Developed an AI transformation plan for a Bay Area software firm

Vice President of Solutions

ICEYE

2019-12 - 2023-3 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

ICEYE operates the worlds largest constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites. - Developed a suite of natural disaster monitoring solutions - Developed a product and go-to-market strategy for democratizing the our constellation data - Acquired industry-leading clients including Swiss Re, Tokio Marine, & The World Bank - Advised the CEO on various lines of business.

Operating Partner

DNX Ventures - US

2019-3 - 2020-7 · 1 yr 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

DNX is an early-stage B2B venture firm - Advising portfolio company co-founders on sales, marketing, and customer care - Performing due diligence on prospective investments - Helped acquire the firm's first US LP

Vice President of Sales

SafeGraph

2017-7 - 2019-1 · 1 yr 7 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

SafeGraph has data about the physical world and what has happened in it - Grew ARR from $0 to $10M in 18 months - Built a team of Account Executives - Personally closed $1.2M in ARR

Vice President (COOish)

Govini

2013-7 - 2017-6 · 4 yrs

San Francisco, California, United States

Govini has an analytics platform that helps government contractors win new business - Launched sales, marketing, customer success, and professional services - Acquired the company's first 300 customers (e.g. Lockheed Martin) - Drove more than $10M in net new ARR

CEO & Co-Founder

buyforwork.com

2012-1 - 2013-7 · 1 yr 7 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

BuyForWork was a social buying platform for consumers - Recruited two talented co-founders (CTO & Creative Director) - Built mobile and web applications that enabled users to capture purchase options via a browser plugin and interact with the options via like/dislike, commenting, and suggesting new options

Vice President of Sales

Socrata

2011-2 - 2012-1 · 1 yr

San Francisco Bay Area

Socrata powers data.gov and the majority of the government's open data portals - Grew sales 550% over previous year - Launched sales, customer success, and professional services - Personally closed the UN, World Bank, City of NY, and City of SF

Vice President of Sales

Granicus

2005 - 2011 · 6 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

Granicus put millions of public meetings online - Grew ARR from $150K to $10M (20 to 700 clients) - Created the sales, ADR, and account management functions - Personally closed the US House of Representatives