The founder of Nexway, Gilles Ridel who made his first footprints in the banking world started his successful entrepreneurial career in 1986. His first start up was a company specialising in data communications and the Minitel.
In 1995, he was placed among the pioneers of e-commerce by founding the company Avenda, a Web agency which achieved more than 500 clients websites over 5 years, taking a notable part in the development of the first French e-merchant sites.
In 2000 Avenda completed a successful industrial merger with the 9Telecom – Jet Multi-media group. Gilles Ridel was appointed General Manager of its Internet business, and simultaneously joined the Board of Directors.
In 2002, anticipating the expansion of online trade, he created the start-up Telechargement, the first European supplier of complete e-commerce solutions, which became Nexway in 2007.
