Jean-Michel Planche

About Jean-Michel Planche

Jean-Michel Planche is a well-known figure in the French digital and video-services ecosystem, with a career strongly associated with entrepreneurship, innovation, and user-experience-driven technology. He co-founded Witbe in 2000 with Marie-Véronique Lacaze, building on a previous entrepreneurial success in the French internet market with Oléane, a background highlighted in Witbe’s corporate history. At Witbe, Jean-Michel Planche has held senior leadership responsibilities and remains one of the company’s long-standing reference figures. Recent company materials describe him as Senior Vice President and Co-Founder, while earlier announcements refer to him as President and Co-Founder, which underscores his enduring role in the company’s governance and strategic development. Witbe is now a listed company on Euronext Growth, focused on test automation and proactive monitoring for video and digital services. Within that framework, Planche helped drive a distinctive vision centered on the end user: assessing not only technical infrastructure performance, but the quality actually experienced by customers. That philosophy became central to Witbe’s identity, especially through its focus on Quality of Experience (QoE) and on robotic testing solutions that emulate real users on real devices. His expertise spans product strategy, technology innovation, international business development, and relationships with major telecom, broadband, and video operators. Witbe’s own content also emphasizes his contribution to the company’s specialization in video quality measurement and its expansion across multiple geographies. Overall, Jean-Michel Planche stands out as an entrepreneurial executive who combines industrial vision, technical credibility, and international commercial execution.