About me

I am an engineer with a PhD in Physics, and over the course of my experiences I specialized in product design and company organization.

Below you will find the most relevant parts of my background, which I hope will convince you that my experience and skills can help you.

Personal life

Married, with 2 children and in my forties, I live in Haute-Savoie near Geneva, where I grew up. I am, as it happens, married to a Swiss woman.

The mountains are my connection with nature, and I visit them in every season for all sorts of activities (hiking, trail running, skiing, climbing, bivouacking).

I hold ecological convictions but am deeply liberal, which makes me a politically incorrect person.

My personality is a mix of kindness and frankness that sometimes stands out. But I have a good understanding of things and sound judgement, which make me well regarded professionally.

Products developed

At Elvesys, we made instruments for microfluidics research. It was my first discovery of the start-up world.

Originally hired to build a user interface in LabVIEW, within a few months I found myself redesigning the company’s first product range.

After designing and industrializing 4 products and carrying out a few dozen proofs of concept in various fields, leaving this job for geographical reasons was heartbreaking. These first steps in developing innovative products set the course of my career.

At LinkedNutri, my role as co-founder and CTO broadened my involvement and responsibilities in running a company.

We developed a system to make taking dietary supplements easier, made up of a connected device, a user interface, a prescriber interface and a complete range of dietary supplements. The goal was to give our users a personalized dietary supplement preparation in liquid form, prepared on demand in 1 minute.

During this venture, amid prototypes, beta tests and patent filings, I was constantly concerned with our efficiency and discovered a passion for company organization. That is when I read many books on company organization and personal development, and ran my first experiments with structure.

At Spacecode, a new, highly qualified and very complementary team was being completed when I arrived. When our manager left 2 months later, I had the CEO’s backing to reorganize how the team worked. Bringing in OKRs and the lean start-up mindset took us from a team close to collapse to a high-performing team, appreciated by everyone, that developed 4 products, found its first customers and filed 3 patents in 3 years.

With Tofya, I run a small business where I am in charge, which lets me explore personal projects.

In particular, I finalized and brought to market on Amazon a desk that children can tilt themselves as they like for reading or writing. Ergonomic and accepted in classrooms, it helps children with learning difficulties optimize their workspace and makes them independent.

There were other ventures and projects along the way. I have only mentioned the most relevant ones here, but I also thank Attolight and Crane Payment Innovations for their trust and the lessons they taught me.