Attila Szekely Email Address

Vice President Enterprise Business

OpenClassrooms is an online education platform for vocational training, providing courses in IT, technology, entrepreneurship, and digital skills.

I’m a versatile business leader with a strong track record in disruptive technology go-to-market strategies encompassing sales, marketing, and partnerships. Starting from June 2023, I'm now in charge of growing climate tech startup Patch in France. Prior to my transition from EdTech to Climate Tech, I have been occupying various VP level business leadership positions with increasing scope at OpenClassrooms, a France-based EdTech scaleup offering top quality, education-to-employment programs and career coaching services worldwide. * Launched a new business line, now drives 1/4th of revenue * Grew B2B revenues tenfold over ’16-’22 at a 40%+ CAGR * Signed strategic partnerships w/ Stanford, Google, Amazon, Microsoft Prior to joining OpenClassrooms I served as Head of Enterprise Sales for Western Europe at Thomson Reuters (now LSEG) in the FinTech space where I oversaw the introduction a joint quant analytics offering with Palantir Finance to the European market, amongst other responsabilities. I hold an Executive MBA from HEC Paris which complements my initial background in engineering, and have been awarded the 2017 prize of the HEC Foundation for my dissertation "Rethinking OpenClassrooms for employability - Digitizing the talent supply chain".