Henri Seydoux is the Founder and serves as Co-Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Parrot. He serves as Board Of Director at Schlumberger. He founded the Company in 1994 and has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its creation. Self-educated, he began his career in 1978 as a trainee with "Journal Actuel", where he was later employed as a journalist from 1979 to 1980. In 1981, he joined the sales team at the "Matin de Paris" newspaper. Then, in 1982, he joined SSCI as an operating system software developer, before working for Microarchi from 1983 to 1984 in the same role. In 1985, he set up BBS, a company intended to market the micro archi operating system. In 1986, he created BSCA, a synthetic 3D imaging company, and became its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1986 to 1990. In 1991, with three other partners, he founded and became a director in the luxury goods company Christian Louboutin.