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C&K Components
- Chief Executive Officer
2012 - 2016
C&K Components is a leader in interface and switch technology as well as smart card and high reliability connector products. C&K Components has built a position of leadership by providing one of the broadest lines of quality switches and a superior level of customer service while offering to its customers a fully vertically manufacturing capability.
Reporting to the Executive Committee of USA based private equity LittleJohn & Co, LLC, I managed an organization of 1500 employees, which included two main production sites (France, China) and 20 other offices around the world (R&D, sales, technical support).
- Grew revenue in a very competitive environment, while drastically improving Ebitda performance
- Completed a competitor acquisition in China resulting in both an accelerated revenue growth in Asia as well as a manufacturing footprint rationalization.
- Deeply restructured C&K from a regional to a global organization, creating a single company culture while bringing key new staff members.
- Drastically improved R&D and marketing organization to drive innovation rate
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C&K Components
- European General Manager
2010 - 2012
C&K European General Manager reporting to the CoActive holding CEO,
managing 450 employees worldwide with annual revenue of 90M$.
* Shifted market focus from Telco to Automotive and Industrial while aligning the
company organization accordingly.
* Restructured sales organization and rationalized channel to market.
* Enhanced manufacturing efficiency (Lean, Kanban, ...) resulting in over 15 points of
margin improvement.
* Reestablished positive social climate (post 2009 crisis) and winning spirit.
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Oberthur Technologies
- General Manager of Cards and Services Product Lines
Colombes
2007 - 2010
Oberthur Technologies is a French digital security company providing secure technology
solutions for Smart Transactions, Mobile Financial Services, Machine-to-Machine, Digital
Identity and Transport & Access Control.
Reporting to the CEO, in charge of an international team of 600 employees (France,
England, Malaysia and China) with strong high tech background.
* Responsibility covered P&L management with revenue over 600M EUR , with a mix of high (Payment) and low (Transport and Mobile) margin products.
* Restructured marketing and R&D organization. ;
* Deployed a specific product strategy for payment targeted to 11 `emerging' countries.
* Launched an 18 months plan to create 20 specific Payment Services complementing
existing card offering. All services were delivered on-time and generated expected
incremental revenue.
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Atmel
- Managing Director - Secure Products Division
Rousset
2006 - 2007
Reporting to the Vice-President of the ASIC Business Unit (~500M$), in charge of a team of 300 employees located in France and Scotland.
- Responsibility covered full P&L management with revenue of 200M$. Direct team included marketing, product design, test engineering, quality, planning & customer service as well as back-end production site.
- Main mission was to define and implement a strategy to transition from a low/no margin performance to a proper profitability level.
- Got approval on a 3 year plan to transition from high telecom exposure to more secured system solution
- Key changes implemented (externalization of manufacturing, product portfolio diversification, new skills acquisition, ..), ultimately lead to the sale of the division to Inside Technology in 2010.
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Atmel
- General Manager
Rousset
1998 - 2006
Reporting to the Vice-President of the microcontroller BU (~600M$), in charge of 8 bit
microcontrollers, FPGA, military and space products with a team of 650 employees
including one production unit.
* Responsible of 150M$ revenue, with marketing, R&D (design, CAD, product and test
engineering), quality, planning & customer service, production, finance and RH.
* Key achievements: EBT grew to 18% of sales (150M$), grew innovation rate over
15%, positioned the organization as the automotive center of expertise for
microcontrollers, and a successful sale of the production unit.
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STMicroelectronics
- Director of Marketing - Semicustom Division - Carrolton
1996 - 1998
In charge of worldwide marketing division ($300M), managing an international team of
senior engineers, mainly focused on 16 OEM accounts (Digital TV and HDD).
Main mission was to ensure profitable migration from Asic supplier to Silicon Solution
provider. Achieved over 100M$ of new business in the two year period.
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STMicroelectronics
- Product Marketing Manager - NVRAM business
1994 - 1996
Main achievements included a deep roadmap portfolio clean-up (60% removed) and
re-shape, strong focus on sales promotion and support (Taiwan and Japan) resulting
in a 75% revenue growth over two years.
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STMicroelectronics
- Sales Manager - Computer Business
1989 - 1994
First in charge of IBM worldwide purchasing, then became worldwide key account
(+200% growth over 2 years).
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Dept of French Army
- Scientifique du Contingent
1988 - 1989
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SAT
- Design engineer
1986 - 1988
