Patrice holds a Business Engineering degree from Solvay Business School (ULB, Belgium).He began his career at Citibank where he held responsibility for portfolio risk analysis and reporting.He was the founder of Arbalet, a meta-search engine for jobs and comparison shopping funded by E-Merge, and had previously co-founded 2 other companies in Latin America (telecom and hospitality).He also worked on statistical risk modeling at SAS Institute and accumulated 10+ years of experience in 14 countries as an independent consultant in financial risk management.Patrice joined E-Merge as Partner early 2012.