Hardware Meets Software: Lean and Agile Lessons for Innovation

About Fabrice Theodo

Fabrice Bernhard is the coauthor of The Lean Tech Manifesto and the CTO of Theodo, a leading technology consultancy he cofounded with Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle and scaled from $1 million in revenue and 10 people in 2012 to $100 million in revenue and 700 people in 2022.  

Theodo was featured in the “FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies” and “Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA” rankings and has been awarded the HappyIndex® AtWork label every year since 2015. Based in New York, London, Paris, and Casablanca, Theodo uses agile, devops, and lean to build transformational tech products for clients all over the world, including global companies—such as VF Corporation, Raytheon Technologies, SMBC, Biogen, Colas, Tarkett, Dior, Safran, BNP Paribas, Allianz, and SG—and leading tech scale-ups—such as ContentSquare, ManoMano, and Qonto. Their story has been featured in multiple articles on planet-lean.com and in the book Learning to Scale at Theodo Group. 

Fabrice is an expert in technology and large-scale transformations and contributed to multiple startups scaling more sustainably with Lean thinking. He has been invited to share his experience at international conferences, including the Lean Digital Summit, DevopsDays, and CraftConf. He is the cofounder of the Paris Devops meetup and an active YPO member. He studied at École Polytechnique and ETH Zürich and lives in London with his two sons.