Severin Naudet is General Manager of WeWork France.

He began his career at Virgin Music, promoting French and international artists such as Françoise Hardy, Alain Souchon, Kelis, Ben Harper and Lenny Kravitz.

He subsequently founded his own music publishing and production company in Paris and New York, and created one of the first online music communities.

In 2006, he joined the founders of Dailymotion as Vice-President, board member and chief editor to make the first community video sharing site a French web champion.

In May 2007, he was appointed Digital Advisor to the french Prime Minister. For five years, he piloted the digital transition of the state administration.

He leads the e-government and e-government projects of the French government. Finally, he lead the new open data policy and directed Etalab.

In October 2013, he launched the company Socialyse, a new subsidiary of the Havas group, of which he was Global CEO.

Socialyse allows advertisers to adopt the best marketing and media strategy on social networks, and the web community.

Socialyse rapidly established itself on the global market with 610 employees in 40 countries.