Artificial Intelligence
Audio fingerprinting, multimodal models and trend detection — shipped in products used by Fortune 500 brands.
Los Angeles · Paris
Philippe Guillaud
AI entrepreneur. Engineer. Speaker. Author.
Finding the right words — and building the machines that listen.
About
Two things matter more than anything else:
the eyes and the words.
I grew up between countries, languages and tables where you had to exist without raising your voice — my mother was a diplomat. That upbringing shaped everything I do: I build technology, I lead companies, and I care deeply about how ideas are said out loud.
Today I am the CEO of MatchTune, an artificial‑intelligence company that analyzes music at the scale of the internet — 147 million tracks, millions of social posts — for the world's largest brands and labels. Before that I founded and ran R&D for a security‑technology company acquired by a global group, and led innovation at IDEMIA.
I still write code most days. I sit on boards. I give talks on AI, leadership and communication. And after three years of collecting them, I published a book about the one‑sentence lines that change the temperature of a room.
Based in Los Angeles and Paris.
Engineering
Hands‑on engineer with patents in secure embedded technology and a shelf of native iOS and macOS apps.
Speaking
Keynotes and panels on AI, music tech, innovation and the art of saying the right thing at the right moment.
Writing
Author of The Art of the Punchline, published in English and French, and a regular voice on LinkedIn.
“Hours of meetings are forgotten.
— Philippe Guillaud, The Art of the Punchline
A ten‑word sentence remains.”
Speaking
Conferences, keynotes
& boardrooms
Twenty years of building technology companies on two continents, told without slides‑and‑bullets fatigue. Talks in English or French, from 20‑minute keynotes to half‑day executive sessions.
AI, for real
What artificial intelligence actually changes for a business — and what it does not. From music trend prediction to copyright compliance at internet scale.
The Art of the Punchline
How one sentence turns a negotiation, wakes up a leadership team or makes you exist in a crowded room. Timing, dosage and the lines that travel.
Building between Paris & LA
Founding, funding and scaling on both sides of the Atlantic — what French Tech and Silicon Beach can learn from each other.
Innovation from the inside
Lessons from running innovation at a global group and from the board table: how to keep a large organization inventing.
Planning an event, a podcast or an executive offsite?
Invite Philippe
The book
The Art of
the Punchline
100 lines to own the room
Be the elephant in the room. For three years I collected the sentences that turn a negotiation around, wake up a boardroom, or make you exist in a crowded room — from Warren Buffett to Churchill, from Seneca to Steve Jobs. For each one: what it means, when to draw it, and a real scene that shows it in action.
- “Only dead fish go with the flow.”
- “Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets.”
- “When it's fuzzy, there's a wolf.”
You will never again see a silence in a meeting as a void. You will see it as an opening.
Apps
Code I ship
I still write software with my own hands — native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, most of them built around audio and image AI.
Chitra Photography
Remove anything, enhance any photo. On‑device tools, magic edits — Mac & iOS.
macOS · iOS
Wordz Genius
A word search with a clock. Drag through letters, any dictionary word scores. English & French, no ads.
iOS · macOS
Matrix Balls
The classic colour‑lines puzzle. Line up five of one colour before the board fills up. No ads.
iOS · macOS
Bagman
99 floors underground, one shovel. Dig holes, trap the monsters, climb out. iPad & Mac, 20 floors free.
iPadOS · macOS
Mastermind Challenger
The classic code‑breaker. A green pin means right place, an orange pin right colour. Three codes free.
iOS · macOS
Malefiz
Barricade, the 1960 board game: five pawns, eleven barricades, four players. Free against the computer, friends nearby with one purchase.
iPadOS · macOS
AudioAtlas Radio
Describe a vibe, get a station built around it — tempo‑matched, key‑matched, blended like a DJ, and steerable while it plays.
iOS · macOS · tvOS · watchOS
Studio by MatchTune
AI finds the right music for your video, edits it to length and publishes to social.
iOS
TuneBlades
Instantly cut, adjust and remix any song while keeping melody and voice intact.
iOS
CoverMatch
AI‑powered music similarity identification for rights professionals.
macOS
Studio Lite
Smart‑filter music search across two million tracks, on the Mac.
macOS
My Melody
With jazz pianist André Manoukian: turn anyone's voice into a unique piece of music.
iOS · macOS
Muzeek Radio
A radio that plays only music composed by artificial intelligence.
iOSVentures & boards
Where I put my time
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2019 — today
MatchTune CEO, investor, board member
AI for music identification, compliance and trend discovery. Products include AudioAtlas, Studio, TuneBlades and CoverMatch. Paris & Los Angeles.
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2019 — today
Rogers Technology Board member
Independent director of the technology arm of Rogers Group, Mauritius. Previously on the boards of Rogers Capital and Islandian.
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2014 — 2018
IDEMIA VP Innovation & Strategic Partnerships
Imagined and designed the products of the future in embedded and identity technologies, Los Angeles.
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2008 — 2017
NagraID Security Founder, EVP, Head of Technology
Built the R&D of a Kudelski Group company holding international patents in secure card technology — acquired by Oberthur Technologies in 2014.
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Since 2008
Public service French Foreign Trade Advisor · La French Tech Ambassador
Nominated by the French Ministry of Finance; former president for the South‑West USA. Co‑founder of the French‑American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles; member of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Let's talk.
Speaking invitations, board and advisory roles, AI projects, press — or simply a good punchline you think I should know.