Holding a degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris (one of the top French engineering schools), and fully bilingual in French and English, Pierre-Yves Thoulon has 40 years of experience in Research and Development, of which 30+ in management, in large corporations such as HP or Gemplus (the world leader in Smart Cards, now a part of Thales), as well as smaller businesses and startups (Arkoon Network Security, Kalray, Mainbot). He also cofounded Crosslux (a startup developing a novel photovoltaic glazing concept), where he was the CTO for 6 years.
During his career, in France and in the USA, he has build deep knowledge and proven experience in management of people, of technologies, of projects, and of processes. Leading teams up to 100 engineers, he has managed significant R&D budgets (10M€).
Enthusiastic about technology, Pierre-Yves Thoulon has dealt with electronic board design, integrated circuit design, applicative and embedded software development, as well as industrialisation of connected objects, in areas such as computer networking, information systems and their security, robotics and photovoltaics.