October 5 and 6,2010

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Le Journal des Entreprises AEPI CCI Grenoble Grenoble Ecole de Management INPG Entreprise SA LYONBIOPÔLE MINALOGIC MINATEC SCHNEIDER Electric SUN Microsystems TENERRDIS Ville de Grenoble - Grenoble Alpes Métropole

Le Journal des Entreprises

Biography

"Journal des Entreprises" is a monthly journal speaking to the overall innovation system actors in the French Alps. It provides news from entrepreneurs and companies and the contributions on the current economic and business issues.

Partner committee

AEPI

Véronique PEQUIGNAT, Manager, International Business Investment

Biography

Véronique Pequignat is currently head of the international business investment department at AEPI, more specifically in charge of the Information Technology sector and the American market.

She has assisted Sun Microsystems, Entegris, Novellus, SOITEC among others, for their development in the region, and is currently active in establishing dialog and cooperation between Mico/nanoclusters of the regions of Albany(US), Dresden (Germany), and Grenoble.

She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the newly created Semi Europe Grenoble office.

Her mission is to foster and support R&D local partnerships, creation of French subsidiaries and promote the technological, research and industrial assets of the Grenoble Isère region.

At the beginning of her career, Ms. Pequignat worked for 12 years in the field of communication and strategic information for local authorities, then as Project Manager in charge of the Northern European market and IT sector at AEPI, from 1997 to 2005.

Véronique graduated in 1983 with a degree in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Grenoble, and in 1984 with a Master’s in information and communication techniques at Science Po Paris.

CCI Grenoble

Dominique LE GIGAN, Companies development director

Biography

Since november 2007 : Companies development director – Grenoble Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

2006 – 2007 : Various projects of company creation and purchasing.

1998 – 2006 : General manager of hightech companies in robotics and lab-automation for pharmaceutical research, and in large scale high precision metallic parts for aircraft and gas exploration industrie.

1985 – 1998 : R&D manager – Marketing development manager – World marketing & sales director – Quality control instrumentation for agrofood industry.

Grenoble Ecole de Management

Sylvie BLANCO, Director of contractual research and Center for Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship

Biography

Since 2001, Sylvie Blanco is a full professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management in charge of contractual research and development activities in the field of innovation and techno-entrepreneurship. Sylvie participates regularly in executive training seminars and coaching, focussing on anticipation, entrepreneurial innovation and emergence of business opportunities.

She’s been working as a consultant in the creation and development of high-tech new ventures, especially in the field of microtechnologies.

Sylvie holds a PhD in business administration. Her thesis dealt with technological and market intelligence in high-tech firms.

INPG Entreprise SA

Henri-Marc MICHAUD, C.E.O

Biography

Henri-marc Michaud is CEO of INPG Entreprise SA since April 2004.

Founded in1991, INPG Entreprise SA is the private subsidiary of Grenoble Institute of Technology. It is dedicated to the promotion of the research activities and results of the Institute which counts 6 engineering schools recognised internationally for their excellence, 26 high-quality laboratories and 900 research experts. INPG Entreprise SA invests in early stage research-based and has a portfolio of 12 high potential companies.

Before working for INPG Entreprise SA, Hank served from 1992 to 2000 for Alcatel in the Optical Fiber Division in various operational positions in the production area. He used to work in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and USA. From 2001 to 2003 he was General Manager of Uponor; business unit producing water, gas, twinwall telecom products.

Hank is an engineer from Grenoble INP. He has a Ph. D in materiel science defended in 1991.

LYONBIOPÔLE

Yves LAURENT, General Manager

Biography

Before his recent appointment, Yves Laurent was Director of the Christophe Mérieux Center - bioMérieux R&D Center in Molecular Biology and Microsystems located in Grenoble.

Yves was also formerly the Deputy Director of the Department of Advanced Technology of the same company.

From 1994 to 2003, Yves Laurent ran his own company: as the CEO, he set up and developed Genome express (DNA sequencing), become today Cogenics.

He has also a strong experience in sales, thanks to previous experiences with Sanofi and Applied Biosystems.

From 2001 to 2004, he was President of Arteb (Rhône-Alpes Agency for the Medicals technologies development and Biotechnologies).

Yves holds a DEA (French post graduate degree obtained after five years of university education) in Bio physical chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology, Pharmacy University of Tours.

MINALOGIC

Nicolas LETERRIER, Chief representative

Biography

Since April 2006, Nicolas Leterrier is the Chief Representative of Minalogic, the global competitive cluster (Pole de competitivite) located in Grenoble, France. This cluster is actively working in the field of micro-nano technologies as well as embedded software to build collaborative projects between actors from industry, universities and public research centers.

Nicolas began his career in Paris working for Gaz de France and GFInformatique

In 1991, he joined ST Microelectronics as a software development engineer. After working in the US for data storage business development, he became manager of an application development group covering the field of Telecommunications, Automotive and computer peripherals.

He was nominated as SW development director for advanced multimedia product line in STMicroelectronics called Nomadik architecture. He managed teams in India and China in the scope of a software platform development. He worked to establish strategic partnership with major mobile phone providers.

He then joined KIS a French SME involved in the photo finishing business, to manage the R&D department.

Nicolas is graduated with a master of sciences of the Paris XI Orsay University and an engineering diploma from Ecole des Techniques du Génie Logiciel (software engineering).

MINATEC

Jean-Charles GUIBERT, Director of the Technology Transfer Office, CEA and Director of MINATEC

Biography

In October 2004, Jean-Charles Guibert was appointed Director for the Technology Transfer and Commercialization activities of CEA, a leading technological research organisation in Europe (15.000 staff, 3.3 B€ annual budget). This on-going responsibility covers strategic marketing, contracts, intellectual property and spin-off creation.

In addition, Jean-Charles was elected as Director of MINATEC in June 2008 by the steering committee. His first tasks will be to foster cross-exchanges between the different institutions within Minatec and to develop an international vision and recognition.

Jean -Charles is an expert for the European commission and national authorities for micro and nanotechnologies and at the board of different companies and non-profit organisations (Air Liquide Electronics System, Minatec Enterprises, CEA-Valorisation, incubator GRAIN 2, post-incubator PETALE...).
He is member of the scientific board of INRS (Institut National Recherche Scientifique) in Québec/Canada, UJF (Joseph FourierUniversity) and ARDI (Agence Rhone-Alpes du Développement et Innovation) in France.

Jean- Charles graduated in 1981 from Languedoc University 'Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Montpellier" in Materials science and then in 1983 from Strasbourg University "Ecole d'Application des Hauts Polymères" in Polymer science.

SCHNEIDER Electric

Jean-Christophe HUTT, VP Innovation projects portfolio and Business Innovation System

Biography

Jean-Christophe Hutt settles in Grenoble in 1991 to join Merlin Gerin, a company that will later become Schneider Electric. Holding a degree in Electrical and Industrial Electronics Engineering, he begins his career in product development where, among other things, he develops the Group offer in digital control systems for high voltage transmission substations. After a few years, he evolves towards marking.

In 1995, Jean-Christophe relocates to Great Britain to join a recently acquired Schneider Electric subsidiary as Offer Marketing Manager. In 2000, back to Grenoble, he joins the central division of Schneider Electric where, as Strategic Projects Director, he contributes to defining the company’s new strategic focus on the emerging energy efficiency market and instructs several acquisition files.

In 2004, he joins, as a Schneider Electric representative, the emerging Minalogic competitiveness cluster initiative. Right from the early days, he dedicates his industry experience as well as his multicultural project management competencies to building and making this initiative an operational reality. In 2006 he joins the newly created Innovation Department of Schneider Electric. As Director, Innovation Projects Portfolio and Business Innovation System, his current responsibilities cover the management of the global portfolio of innovation projects as well as the deployment of the « Business Innovation » approach within the Group.

SUN Microsystems

Alban RICHARD, Responsible for Sun Directory Services engineering

Biography

Senior Engineering Director, Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition,

Application Platform Software Division

Site Manager, Sun Microsystems Grenoble Engineering Center

Alban Richard is responsible for Sun Directory Services engineering,

including the world's leading LDAP solution, Sun's Directory Server

Enterprise Edition, as well as a brand new Java LDAP core server, Sun

OpenDS SE.

Alban is also Site Manager of the Sun Microsystems Grenoble

Engineering Center (GEC). GEC hosts over 150 Sun employees from

around the world, engaged mainly in software development, quality

engineering, product management, documentation, support, sustaining,

and marketing.

Alban has been with Sun Microsystems for more than 16 years,

including several years based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in

California. His experience is in engineering, product management and

marketing, P&L responsibilities and general management, with a

successful track record of innovation, having brought more than 30

Sun software products to market. In June, 2007 he was appointed to

his current role as Engineering Director for the Sun Directory

Services portfolio.

Alban holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Marseilles

University, France.

TENERRDIS

Odile LANTZ, PhD Manager, research and innovation networks for Energy
Research department Grenoble INP

Biography

Odile Lantz is an expert engineer in the field of research networks and of innovation in the energy within the direction of the research for Grenoble INP today. In this frame, Odile Lantz is a manager of projects within Cluster of research Energies Rhône-Alpes, of the Institute Carnot " Energies of future " and of the pole of Competitiveness Tenerrdis.

Member of the executive committee of Tenerrdis in conformance with Grenoble INP, her has in responsibility the national forward-looking communications strategy, the piloting of international projects and the program on the skills and the professions in the new energies.

Ville de Grenoble - Grenoble Alpes Métropole

Geneviève FIORASO, Deputy mayor of Grenoble, in charge of Economy, Employment, Higher

Biography

Genevieve Fioraso, member of the French Parliament, deputy mayor in charge of Economy, Employment, University and Research, City of Grenoble, 1st vice-president of the Metro, the Grenoble urban area council (26 cities), in charge of economic development and CEO of the SEM Minatec Entreprises. Also, President of IAE (business school of the Social Sciences University of Grenoble).

Diversified professional former activities, all dedicated to development, both in public and private sectors: marketing manager, France Telecom (2000-2004), director of the Regional Agency for the development of digital research and industry in the Rhone-Alpes Region (1999-2000), director of cabinet for Michel Destot, mayor of Grenoble (1995-1999), deputy manager of Corys, a start-up from the French Nuclear Energy Commission (CEA of Grenoble), dedicated to software simulation and modelization (1989-1995), responsible of an association in charge of professional insertion, teacher in professional training organisms.

Committed in economic development, creation of industrial jobs with added value thanks to innovation.