Reporting to the CEO, Louis-Philippe Massé is responsible for all the phases of the product life-cycle and is working closely with the Production and Sales teams. He is also responsible of new technology survey, roadmap and the IP portfolio.

In charge of the optical business division for Nidec-Read with offices in 4 different countries. Responsible in increasing the revenue by 170% in 2 years. Transformed a losing business unit to profitability.

Heading the Marketing and Product Management Teams, I work closely to the executive team to make sure our product portfolio, commercial strategy and communications help us reach corporate targets.

I am in charge of Product Management and Marketing teams.Leading the key team of product managers and product marketing, we work with Sales and R&D to have the best portfolio to lead over the competition and meet growth objectives. Under my direction, we are successfully changing our organisation to keep the lead in technical innovation and growth by innovative marketing techniques.Responsibilities:- Roadmap management and product development strategy.- Developing Marketing POA strategy for new product launches, legacy product promotions and key strategic objectives.- Managing the corporate communications (internal, external).- Strategic R&D Project driver.Results:- Highly successful new product line launch. Exceeded yearly sales target by more than 70%.- Relaunch of the Low Vision key product. Exceeded yearly sales target by more than 60%.- Successful introduction of a unique next-generation braille note taker. Exceeded yearly sales target by more than 55%.- Lead the ongoing wearable product line development.

In charge of Product Management and Development for the Low Vision portfolio. Key projects: Portable devices and smart glasses.Working with an experienced team of people aiming to change how low vision and blind people lives. Because the first goal of technology should be to makes life more easy, more fun, more free.Responsibilities:- Managing the new product portfolio- Work with management in defining the business and product strategy- Drive the engineering team Low Vision products development- Work closely with the sale team in defining a successful product portfolio- Develop new sale channelsKey strengths and success:- Developed a new patent-pending low vision handheld magnifier.- Building a new AR Glass product line- Updating the product strategy and business model in an changing market

Lead business and product development of Semiconductor Advanced Packaging business unit. Oversee business justification, market requirements, product strategy, technical requirements and pricing of the SAP product lines. Also in charge of market research and competitively analysis as well as strategic accounts.Responsibilities:- Manage the entire SAP product life cycle- Conduct strategic and technical marketing- Discover new market opportunities and perform ROI internal qualification- Identify business trends- Specify market requirements- Define product introduction package

In charge of Asia Pacific Sales operations for Semiconductor and Vision Systems.Responsibilities:- Identify new leads and opportunities- Commercial and Technical Marketing strategy- Customer relationship- Technical pre-sales activities- Post-sales support strategy and managementKey strengths and successes:- Build strong relationship with existing and new customers: Won orders even when we were the underdogs.- Dislodged market leader at key customer

In charge of the Customer Solutions Group that oversees sales process, technical proposals and interaction between Sales and Engineering teams.Key strength and success:- Increase the proposal success ratio from 40% to 60%- Reduce the proposal turnaround time of 18% with a workforce reduced by 20%- Salesforce power user, developed key metrics and reports

Responsible for substrate inspection vision and metrology equipments sales & marketing.

Previously Project Leader, I am now the product manager of the Zygo Vision System unit (previously Solvision) that produce and commercialize semiconductor metrology equipment.Responsabilities:- In charge of the technical strategy, product design- Responsible of customer technical relations- Approve all product designs and customer solutions- In charge of the technical aspect of the sales (requirements, specifications, acceptance)Highlights:- Successfully conducted R&D projects to regain market technical superiority- Successfully headed the renewal of the complete product line with the market best performing and lowest COO technology- Changed the market perception as provider of outdated solutions to market leader in terms of capability, speed and cost- The R&D programs generated sales even during the worst economical downturn of the last decades

- In charge of 3D Optical Sensor R&D, Production and Support- Successfully conducted the 3D sensor hardware program by starting from a proof of concept design to an industrialized, rugged and performing sensor- My technical decisions are responsible of reducing the production costs by more than 35% and reducing defect rates from 45% to 4%.

- In charge of orthopaedic implants design and commercialization- In charge of a project that led to new types of vertebral fusion implants. Successfully implanted in patients in Europe.

In charge of numerous support engineering projects. In charge of the connectors laboratory.