{"id":2637,"date":"2019-11-13T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate.nacongaming.com\/?page_id=2637"},"modified":"2024-02-14T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:59:34","slug":"alain-falc-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/corporate.nacongaming.com\/en\/alain-falc-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain Falc Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=&#8221;Alain Falc&#8221; subhead=&#8221;Chairman\/CEO&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; module_class=&#8221;content-header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.0&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|||on|||||&#8221; title_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;100px&#8221; content_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_center&#8221; background_enable_video_mp4=&#8221;off&#8221; background_enable_video_webm=&#8221;off&#8221; background_video_width=&#8221;640&#8243; background_video_height=&#8221;360&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; width_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; title_font_size_tablet=&#8221;50px&#8221; title_font_size_phone=&#8221;30px&#8221; title_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;height: 100%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; background_enable_image=&#8221;off&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f5f5f5&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.0&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_3,2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/vps-387abac1.vps.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/alain-falc.png&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Alain Falc, an engineering graduate (ISEN 1981), founded Bigben Interactive in 1981 when he finished his studies and rapidly acquired industrial and commercial know-how in watches and other promotional electronic products. In 1993, he moved into the budding video games sector. By 1999, when it was floated on the stock exchange, Bigben Interactive was one of the leading designers and manufacturers of accessories for third-party video games consoles (i.e. not made by the console manufacturers) in France. After its IPO, Bigben Interactive continued to expand internationally, with operations in Benelux, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain and Italy. Having gradually built up the video games publishing business over the following decade, in 2011 Alain Falc acquired the smartphone accessories design and distribution business of ModeLabs, the French leader in smartphone accessories, which became Bigben Connected in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He then took the Bigben Group in another strategic direction in 2018-2019 through the acquisition of interests in five development studios. In 2019, he successfully led the creation of NACON, the Bigben Group&#8217;s integrated Gaming division.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Falc, an engineering graduate (ISEN 1981), founded Bigben Interactive in 1981 when he finished his studies and rapidly acquired industrial and commercial know-how in watches and other promotional electronic products. In 1993, he moved into the budding video games sector. By 1999, when it was floated on the stock exchange, Bigben Interactive was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>Monsieur Alain FALC cr\u00e9e BIGBEN INTERACTIVE en 1981 \u00e0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes et acquiert rapidement un savoir\u2013faire industriel et commercial dans le domaine de la montre et des produits \u00e9lectroniques promotionnels.<\/p><p>En 1993, il d\u00e9cide d\u2019investir le secteur naissant des jeux vid\u00e9o pour y d\u00e9cliner son savoir-faire. Devenu leader de la conception-fabrication d\u2019accessoires pour consoles de jeux vid\u00e9o en France en 1999, il fait introduire la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en bourse et m\u00e8ne son d\u00e9veloppement \u00e0 l\u2019international avec des implantations au Benelux, en Grande Bretagne, en Allemagne, \u00e0 Hong-Kong, en Espagne et en Italie.<\/p><p>En r\u00e9alisant l\u2019acquisition de l\u2019activit\u00e9 Conception et distribution d\u2019accessoires de mobiles de \u00abModeLabs\u00bb (leader fran\u00e7ais de l\u2019accessoire pour t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie mobile) en 2011, devenue \u00ab Bigben Connected \u00bb en mai 2013, Alain FALC installe Bigben comme un acteur majeur des accessoires de convergence num\u00e9rique. Les r\u00e9centes acquisitions des trois studios de d\u00e9veloppement de jeux vid\u00e9o, Cyanide, Eko Software et Kylotonn KT Racing en 2018, positionnent d\u00e9sormais \u00e9galement BIGBEN comme \u00e9diteur-d\u00e9veloppeur sur le segment du jeu vid\u00e9o AA, lui permettant de s\u2019adresser \u00e0 un public large, composite et international. Le groupe dispose d\u00e9sormais d\u2019une capacit\u00e9 renforc\u00e9e et d\u2019un acc\u00e8s \u00e0 de nouveaux march\u00e9s permettant d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer son d\u00e9veloppement commercial.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alain Falc, Chairman\/CEO | NACON<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alain Falc, an engineering graduate (ISEN 1981), founded Bigben Interactive in 1981 when he finished his studies and rapidly acquired industrial and commercial know-how in watches and other promotional electronic products.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/corporate.nacongaming.com\/en\/alain-falc-biography\/\" \/>\n<meta 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