Marseille… A New ‘American Dream’

When they created LiNXEO in 2013, Julian Hirst and his three partners chose to set up their firm, which specializes in developing high value ecosystems for high performance projects, in the center of Marseille. For Oxford-educated Hirst, “an Englishman born to be Marseillais”, it was an opportunity to start a business in this city so close to his heart. The former communications manager at Gemplus (now Gemalto) talks about the reasons for this strategic decision to locate LiNXEO in one of the “world’s great cities”…