Background
Vidal was born in Narbonne, in southern France, raised primarily in Toulouse, in southwestern France, and schooled in Paris.
Vidal was born in Narbonne, in southern France, raised primarily in Toulouse, in southwestern France, and schooled in Paris.
He was formerly Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe. He received a Master’s degree from Supelec, the French engineering school. Vidal began his career at Schlumberger, where he worked for ten years in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia.
Next, Vidal became a partner at Banexi Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies including Kelkoo, a European shopping search engine, as well as Algety and In Fusio.
Vidal then segued into a role as managing director at Kelkoo until its acquisition by Yahoo! in March 2004, at which point he assumed the role of Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe(National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: YHOO) until 2007. In 2007 Vidal joined the London office of Index Ventures as partner.
At Index, he has been involved with a number of different portfolio companies, including ASOS (London School of Economics: ASOS). Vidal currently sits on the board of directors of a number of companies, including Adconion, Be2, Criteo(National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: CRTO), Metapack, Navabi, Outbrain, and Squarespace, and is a non-executive director at Techmedia.