SoftFluent

Tools for developers, by developers.

Our team

SoftFluent management team is composed of Microsoft veterans that have a very significant field experience, cumulating personal involvement on more than 600 different customers.


Daniel Cohen-Zardi, President & CEO, cofounder


Graduated from "Ecole Polytechnique" & "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications", Daniel COHEN-ZARDI has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software.

After a first experience at CGI-Informatique, a CASE tool leader on mainframes then acquired by IBM, he spends 8 years at Microsoft, first in consulting, before taking charge of developer, ISV and emerging market evangelism.

Daniel drives the company and especially strategy, positioning and finance. He is also the president of the R&D commission of French ISV association.

Simon Mourier, Chief Technology Officer, cofounder


Simon Mourier is SoftFluent co-founder and CTO, in charge of the product strategy and development, and the architect for out flagship product 'CodeFluent Entities'. He is also the original author of the well known HTML Agility Pack library.

Before SoftFluent, Simon spent 14 years at Microsoft, holding various positions, including 8 years as an Architect Consultant in the Microsoft Consulting Services group. Prior to Microsoft, Simon worked 2 years at Renault Automobiles as a network engineer.

He graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique de Nancy, in France.

Maud Chiva-Rampazzo, Principal Architect


Graduated from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), Maud Chiva-Rampazzo has a 20 year experience in software development projects.

After starting her career at Bull-Ingénierie, she spends 7 years at Microsoft Consulting Services with responsibility for projects centered around industrialization of development processes.

She joined SoftFluent in 2007, leads the QA team of the product division and acts as a technical mentor for less experienced people within the company.

Lionel Poli, Service Director


Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux, Lionel Poli has a global experience of about 25 years in software vendor and associated services environment.

After a first 10 years experience in R&D department at Prologue Software (Bull Micral), a French software vendor, he spends 10 years in Consulting Services at Microsoft in a Services Line manager role. He follows his career 3 years at SAS Institute taking respectively a Consulting and Professional Services Director role.

Since 2010, Lionel took the direction of the Professional Services division, with the ambition to make it the reference company in France for .NET development.