Jean-Charles Lantheaume
Senior Solution Architect
Senior pre-sales architect for HPE - hundreds of enterprise deals/year, 230M CHF annual target (120% achieved in 2025) across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
- jean-charles@lantheaume.fr
- +34 619 43 10 50
- jean-charles.lantheaume.fr
- linkedin.com/in/jeancharleslantheaume
- Barcelona, Spain
Summary
Trusted-advisor pre-sales architect, Barcelona-based - 10 years at HPE closing enterprise deals across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts. I turn complex infrastructure needs into clear, signable solutions, co-own deals with Sales, run technical enablement for Inside Sales and channel partners, and bring three languages with 20+ years in IT and 15+ years in international sales.
- End-to-end solution design and deal shaping on hundreds of HPE compute and virtualization deals per year across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
- Trusted-advisor posture with hundreds of partners and enterprise customers across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
- Technical enablement of Inside Sales and channel partners at the HPE Barcelona Sales Center — dozens of new hires ramped up since 2016.
Professional experience
Inside Sales Solutions Architect
Mar 2016 - presentHewlett Packard Enterprise · Barcelona, Spain
2 years on the French SMB market, then 8+ years on Enterprise & Global Accounts for the Swiss market, EMEA and worldwide.
- Qualify, shape and close hundreds of enterprise deals per year alongside Sales — from discovery to contract: solution choice, sizing and competitive positioning. 230M CHF annual target on the Swiss market, 120% achieved in 2025.
- Deliver customer presentations, demos and trusted-advisor briefings on HPE infrastructure, software and digital services — to hundreds of partners and enterprise customers across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
- Built and run the technical enablement program at the Barcelona Sales Center — dozens of Sales hires onboarded, 1:1 technical deep-dives, on-demand workshops and regular news flashes.
- Technical enablement of hundreds of channel partners and enterprise customers — driving solution depth on HPE compute, virtualization and GreenLake.
- Co-design solutions on the largest Swiss-based global accounts — partnering with regional pre-sales and the HPE pre-sales community across EMEA and worldwide.
Infrastructure Operations Engineer (L2)
2014 - 2016T-Systems · Barcelona, Spain
Support for large French and German enterprises.
- Operating systems, LDAP and VoIP administration.
- Active Directory and Avaya administration.
- IBM Mainframe administration for German automotive customers.
Co-founder & Technical Lead
2014 - 2015AM'Com · Marseille, France
Websites for catering businesses.
- Client acquisition in catering businesses, proposition and creation of dedicated websites.
Technical Account Manager
2012 - 2014Riviera-Networks · Aix-en-Provence, France
Expert reseller in networks, systems and security — South of France.
- Technical account management on mid-market and enterprise segments — multi-vendor solution proposals across networks, security and datacenter (Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and partners).
- Coverage of LAN/MAN/WAN/WLAN, security, VoIP, datacenter and telecom infrastructure.
Cycling expedition — Asia & Europe
2011 - 2012Sabbatical Leave · 7 countries · 8,500 km
- One-year cycling expedition with my partner across Asia and Europe — a deliberate break between roles to reset, learn and grow.
Channel Account Manager
2007 - 2011Cris Réseaux · Lyon, France
IT distributor — security and network software portfolio.
- Grew assigned reseller accounts from ~100K€ to 800K€ in annual revenue across four years — 8x growth.
- Channel sales of Netasq/Stormshield firewalls, Trend Micro antivirus and Vade antispam to resellers and integrators across France.
- Reseller acquisition and growth in indirect sales — end-to-end solution proposals across security and networking, software and hardware.
Network and System Administrator
2001 - 2003 & 2005 - 2007IT service companies (SSII) · Lyon, France
Two successive positions delivering infrastructure on customer sites for French enterprises.
- On-site network and system administration for French enterprises.
- Technologies: Windows Server, Linux, security, networking, ERP.
Associate Director & Co-Founder
2003 - 2005Resolving · Lyon, France
Co-founded a collaborative platform for the real estate and construction sector.
- Co-founded and directed Resolving — building a collaborative platform for real estate agencies and construction businesses.
- Combined platform development with network/system administration services for real estate clients.