** From 0 to multi-million € revenue ** Developed sales in 30 countries : EU, North America, Japan, NZ, South Africa.Customers included multi-$B companies such as Taylor Farms, Baywa, Corteva, etc.Directed technical teams, from fast prototyping to industrialisation & certification. Both software & hardware. Road map & process steering. 4 Products. 10 Patents.International press cover & rewards (2019 Agritechnica Silver Medal, 2022 CES Innovation Award, etc.) ** From 0 to 90 employees **Managed multi-cultural teams : French, Germans and Americans.On-site COO of the local USA subsidiary, in Salinas, California. Experience with both business growth and restructuring/cost reduction.** Raised €50 million in funding ** Developed equity story and business plan. Managed Due diligence processes.Prepared reports & board packs. Managed strategy & board relations. ** Impact **An impact-driven company, with third-party reviewed KPI : B Corp, Climate Dividends.

Establishing the industry's flagship event, from scratch.Founded in 2016, it now attracts over 5,000 attendees from 40 countries. The event features live field robots demonstrations, keynote and exhibitor from tier-one players (John Deere, CNH Industrial, Nvidia, Microsoft, etc.)Supervision of the two yearly events : - World FIRA - FIRA USA

Study and simulation of interaction mechanisms for the execution of planetary exploration missions, carried out by a group of heterogeneous robotic devices.*Supervisors* Eric Bensana & Abdel-Illah Mouaddib*Publications*- Gateau, T., Severac, G., Lesire, C., Barbier, M., & Bensana, E. (2012). Knowledge base for planning, execution and plan repair. PlanEx 2012, 3.- Séverac, G., & Bensana, E(2012). Ontology to improve autonomous interactions between space vehicles. In SpaceOps 2012 (p. 1303157).- Paull, L., Severac, G., Raffo, G. V., Angel, J. M., Boley, H., Durst, P. J., ... & Li, H. (2012, October). Towards an ontology for autonomous robots. In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 1359-1364). IEEE.

Development of an experimental platform to simulate communicating mobile devices and evaluate cooperative algorithms. Internship supervision.Participation in the European project "Hidenets"*Publications*Killijian, M. O., Roy, M., & Severac, G. (2012). The ARUM experimentation platform: An open tool to evaluate mobile systems applications. In Advances in Autonomous Mini Robots: Proceedings of the 6-th AMiRE Symposium (pp. 221-234). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.Séverac, G., Hvilshøj, M., & Bøgh, S. (2010). XML− BASED MULTI AGENT COMMUNICATION AND SCHEDULING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS.Killijian, M. O., Roy, M., & Séverac, G. (2010, October). ARUM: A cooperative middleware and an experimentation platform for mobile systems. In 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (pp. 442-449). IEEE.Killijian, M. O., Powell, D., Roy, M., & Sévérac, G. (2008). Experimental evaluation of ubiquitous systems. Fast abstract at DEBS, 8.