Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Strategic leader at the intersection of Technology (CTO) and Commercial Excellence (Portfolio Sales), I transform complex technological visions into tangible business growth. With a track record in energy, smart infrastructure, and digital sectors, I operate as a "Business Builder" who aligns innovation with P&L objectives. As a Strategic Portfolio Leader, my focus goes beyond oversight: I architect software and service offerings, streamline Go-to-Market strategies, and bridge the gap between technical roadmaps and market demand to maximize customer value and revenue. Core Areas of Impact: - Business Unit Leadership & Growth: Managing strategic portfolios, optimizing commercial performance, and driving large-scale digital transformation. - Tech Strategy & Innovation: Defining future-ready technology visions (Software, Cloud, Smart Infra) that support long-term financial goals. - Sustainability & ESG Transformation: Leveraging digital solutions to accelerate the energy transition and deliver high-impact, responsible business outcomes. I am a pragmatic leader committed to merging technical excellence with business agility to solve today’s performance challenges and build a sustainable, high-performing future.
- Corporate Governance: Act as a Board Member, contributing to the definition of long-term corporate strategy, risk management, and investment decisions - P&L & Portfolio Strategy: Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the Software, Services, and Sustainability portfolio, ensuring growth and alignment with global business targets. - Sales Enablement & Go-to-Market: Lead the commercial transformation by bridging technical innovation and sales execution, directly supporting high-value deal closures and strategic partnerships. - Business Model Transformation: Architect the transition from Capex-heavy models to recurring revenue streams (SaaS, PaaS, EaaS), optimizing the service-to-software mix for increased profitability. - Sustainability & ESG Leadership: Championing the decarbonization strategy at the board level, translating ESG goals into profitable digital offerings and market leadership.
Member of the Executive Committee (COMEX) | Siemens SI France - Executive Leadership & Strategy: Contributed to the strategic governance and organizational transformation of Siemens SI France as a COMEX member, driving national business objectives. - Business Transformation: Spearheaded the transition of traditional industrial activities towards digital-first models, focusing on SaaS/PaaS platforms and Data-Driven Services. - Scalable Innovation: Led the development and incubation of high-growth business units in emerging fields, including IoT, Edge Computing, and AI-driven automation. - Energy Transition & Smart Infra: Directed large-scale strategic projects for Energy Efficiency, Microgrids, and Electromobility, aligning technological roadmaps with global sustainability goals. - Operational Excellence: Supervised the end-to-end delivery of complex digital ecosystems (from Embedded SW to Digital Twin and BIM)
- Business Unit Development: Led the expansion of the Digital Grid business unit, transforming high-potential technologies into a structured, profitable portfolio of Software and Services. - Market Expansion & Strategy: Spearheaded the Go-to-Market strategy for emerging energy sectors, including Renewable Energy, E-mobility, and Microgrids, capturing new market shares in a rapidly evolving landscape. - Strategic Solution Design: Directed the development of complex energy ecosystems, ranging from Grid Simulation and Meter Data Management (MDM) to Energy Efficiency and Data-Driven Services. - Customer Value Creation: Focused on shifting the value proposition from pure product sales advanced energy services, enhancing long-term recurring revenue. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Orchestrated collaboration between engineering, product development, and sales teams to ensure the scalability and reliability of critical energy infrastructure software.
- Strategic Safety & Management Training: Designed and led advanced training for reactor operators, focusing on nuclear safety protocols, operational management, and leadership in high-risk environments. - Operational Excellence & Risk Governance: Provided expertise on reactor control and safety systems, ensuring that management practices met the most stringent regulatory and security standards. - Complex Systems Leadership: Orchestrated knowledge transfer and management development for multi-disciplinary teams, bridging the gap between technical complexity and operational decision-making. - Process Expertise: Delivered deep-dive analysis on nuclear processes, focusing on the synergy between human factors, management, and technical safety
- Business Unit & Operations Management: Co-managed lab’s P&L including financial reporting, human resources, and subcontractor oversight. Defined and deployed growth strategies to expand service offerings and strategic partnerships. - Large-Scale Project Leadership: Directed complex Power & Storage projects (Hydroelectricity, Microgrids) with budgets of €4M–€5M, orchestrating cross-functional teams and ensuring delivery of high-level technical requirements. - Data Science & AI Innovation: Pioneered the development of advanced digital capabilities, including multi-physics optimization, predictive modeling, and AI-driven analytics to improve system performance and reliability. - Operational Excellence & Industrial Performance: Guaranteed lab productivity and EHS/5S standards while leading certification acceptance tests with key international customers. - Tech Stack Oversight: Managed the integration of IoT testing, Embedded Software, and Data Analytics, transforming raw data into actionable mathematical and statistical models for industrial applications.
- Award-Winning Innovation: Winner of the National Competition for Innovative Products (2012) with a digital solution dedicated to optimizing energy system performance via AI and physical modeling. - End-to-End Business Leadership: Built the business model, strategic business plan, and financial structure from the ground up, managing all accounting and fiscal aspects of the venture. - Product Strategy & IP: Designed and developed the Proof of Concept (PoC), including AI modeling and software architecture, while managing Intellectual Property (IP) and patents. - Market Development: Led the Go-to-Market strategy, managed client relationships, and secured early partnerships to validate the market fit. - Agile Management: Implemented agile methodologies for rapid software development and iterative product improvements based on data-driven insights.
- Advanced Systems Modeling: Developed complex mathematical and software frameworks using physical modeling, probabilistic simulations, and Machine Learning (ML) to predict and optimize hydroelectric system performance. - Asset Optimization & Redesign: Led energetic performance studies to identify operational bottlenecks, resulting in the strategic redesign of powerplants to maximize efficiency and output. - Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Orchestrated performance optimization projects involving multiple engineering disciplines, including Control Systems (I&C), Alternators, and Hydro-Mechanical stress analysis. - Industrial Testing & Data Analytics: Planned and executed large-scale field measurement campaigns (Thermodynamic, Ultrasonic, PIV) and transformed raw sensor data into actionable insights for plant reliability. - Predictive Performance: Pioneered "Learning Models" to simulate transients and operational limitations, bridging the gap between theoretical physics and industrial productivity.