Experience

SmarDTV Global

• France
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Marketing Officer, Direct2TV Business Unit General Manager

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Direct2TV Business unit develops solution to bring Premium TV content including BroadcastTV in Smart TV without Decoder. These solutions include small accessories (hardware and software) to be plugged on TV to bring Broadcast TV and OTT TV user eperienceAs owner of the P&L, I set the vision and manage priority to achieve goals.I'm leading an organisation of Sales, product management and Engineering.

• Vice President Products and Marketing

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

  SmarDTV Global is developping consumer electronic devices for digital television, and gateway solution to interconnect professional video camera to enable IOT use cases with artificial intelligence and analytics.Manage a department of senior product managers, Industrial designers, system architects and MarketingResponsible for the roadmap (investment and customer projects) of SmarDTV Products, promotion of these products, innovation and strategic partner selection.Lead innovation managementMarketing communication (exhibition, leaflet, branding, website, social network)

• Head of STB Products & Solutions

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2016

  SmarDTV is developping consumer electronic devices for digital television (Kudelski and Echostar are the shareholders)Manage a team of senior product managers and system architectsResponsible for the roadmap of STB (investment and customer projects) of SmarDTV Products, promotion of these products, innovation and strategic partner selection.

• Head of Product Strategy

  • Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

  SmarDTV is developping consumer electronic devices for digital television.Manage a team of senior product managersResponsible for the roadmap (investment) of SmarDTV product lines : Chipset, CAM, Connected CAM, Cablecard, USB devices, STB)

• Product Line Manager

  • Nov 2008 - Feb 2010



Philips

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• STB Product Planner

  • May 2007 - Nov 2008

  Part of Product Strategy and Marketing of Philips STB, I'm working as interface between the commercial Teams, the Research & Development and Purchasing departmentsTranslate the market requirements into value propositions, and requirements for new platformsCreate the Mid term and long term product plan for Philips Set Top Box and ensure the execution.

• STB Product Manager

  • Oct 2005 - May 2007

  As a main technical contact of Pay TV Operators in Europe and Asia, I propose and specify new Philips Set top box products



NAGRA

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Conditional Access System Product Manager

  • Jan 2004 - Sep 2005

  Company activity: development and commercialization of content protection products for digital TVPosition description: Security solution product manager for Pay TV operators Company activity: development and commercialization of content protection products for digital TVPosition description: Security solution product manager for Pay TV operators



Canal+ Technologies

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Jan 2002 - Dec 2003

  Company activity: development and commercialization of content protection products and interactivity software for digital TVPosition: -product manager for headend and backend: subscriber management system, EPG generator, return channel.- partner manager for multiplexer, encoder, subscriber management system, content management system.

• System Engineer team Manager

  • Feb 2000 - Jan 2002

  Team management: recruting & training, defining objectives & work methods, project leading