Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
International executive developing global vision, scaling innovation to commercial success, driving efficiency, execution excellence and product offer transformations. I hold both General Management, CTO/R&D positions in fast-moving technological environments (semiconductor, electronics equipment manufacturer in consumer, automotive, industrial, telcos, AI, and military applications) My expertise includes three main fields of competencies: - General Management (>€1B revenue, >1000 people) : operations, R&D, marketing - Product leadership : technology/product/application vision, product development excellence, innovation - Organization efficiency: transformation, lean management, turnaround
Heading Infineon’s Magnetics (speed, current, position) and MEMS sensors & actuators for automotive, consumer and industrial applications.
General manager of a Business Line covering sensors and RF components (MEMS sensors, microphone, gas sensors, pressure, radar, 3D camera, wireless infrastructure RF, user equipment RF...).
Leading an organization driving Infineon's system innovations and Solutions in the following domains: - Residential Solar and Energy storage - Light Electric Vehicles - Robotics - Smart Power electronics solutions, condition monitoring, Connected power
Smart sensors and sensing solutions (HW/SW, AI, edge/cloud) in Consumer, Buildings & Home, Industrial. Radar, microphone/voice, 3D ToF camera, gas sensors, pressure sensor...
CTO of overall S&T group following acquisition of Kontron by S&T. Now Kontron AG. www.kontron.ag www.kontron.com Kontron AG is a Industrial IoT solutions leader operating worldwide : - >1B€ sales and 4200 people - Industrial IoT end-to-end solutions, software development services, military & defense embedded computing. - Embedded computers, servers, industrial gateways through its subsidiary Kontron. - software services (cloud migration, SLA, ...) S&T acquired Kontron in Jan 2017 Vertical markets addressed : smart factories, defense / military, Healthcare, robotics & autonomous vehicles and smart energy. My responsibilities includes : - Strategy : joint portfolio and business model of the merged company - Product, technology and innovation roadmap : IoT end to end solutions, artificial intelligence, security, Edge computing. - Product development efficiency worldwide : lean engineering, communication, alignment, process, tools...
Head of Worldwide Product Development - Global R&D Embedded computing solutions for Industry 4.0, transportation, medical, defense.
Embedded Processing Solutions ($2.5B business organization) - Lead cross organization projects to identify, select, structure and materialize new growth opportunities, innovations and efficiency gains - Product portfolio strategic analysis for markets covered by EPS segment: Home devices, Internet of Things, secure devices, Network infrastructure solutions, Image sensors, automotive ADAS & IVI, machine learning - Value proposition definition and market/ecosystem evangelization (eg FDSOI) - System solution and customer centric offer development (hardware, software, application focus) - Lean product development set up, Product development efficiency program lead.
- Full P&L responsibility of ~700M$ Revenues, ~800 people (marketing, HW/SW R&D, industrialization, deployment & support, finance) - Connected Home devices, Set Top Box, Home gateway and automotive infotainment B.U. / Division - Key innovations : UHD, DOCSIS3, 3D graphics, smart Home -Successful creation of automotive infotainment product line. Put Blu-Ray and DTT system in production for German car manufacturer
- Consumer electronics system solutions ( Set Top Box, TV, Home audio, Home gateways) - Lead a team of senior system architects and technical marketing to build technology and product roadmap - Definition of product and system solution offer and architecture - Develop and lobby ecosystem and partners (technology and business partners) - Created product family which have been market leader