Philippe Rault Email & Phone Number

Région De Paris, France

• Manages the LaCie Consumer HDD and SSD based External Storage Product Line / product lifecycle management / focus on pre-launch strategy: roadmap, competition analysis, TAM, business case and financials for new projects, delivering 4Ps launch kits to Sales, P&L follow up: 1,5M units / 184M$ revenue in Fiscal Year 2022• Dedicated support for all regions (AMER, EMEA, APAC, CHINA, JAPAN) on Channel Marketing and Sales activities

Paris Area, France

• Manages Seagate + LaCie + Maxtor Consumer HDD based External Storage Product Line (strategy and roadmap, competition analysis, lifecycle management, pricing, forecast, sales training, P&L follow up)• Cross functional lead with Sales Ops / Pricing / Channel Marketing

Paris Area, France

• Manages the LaCie Consumer HDD based External Storage Product Line (strategy and roadmap, competition analysis, products specifications including design, lifecycle management, pricing, forecast, P&L follow up): 2,6M units / 200M€ revenue in 2014 (+15% versus plan / 80% of total LaCie revenue)• Cross functional lead with Purchasing / Engineering / Project Management / Channel Marketing

• Manages the Toshiba HDD based External Storage Product Line (strategy and roadmap, competition analysis, products specifications including design, lifecycle management, overall cost structure)• Manages product sourcing (new vendor introduction including terms and conditions negotiation)• Leads Business Development / Engineering / Supply Chain / Marcom for new products introduction

• Manages the Packard Bell Multimedia (DVD/HDD Recorders) and External Storage Product Line (strategy and roadmap, competition analysis, products specifications including design, lifecycle management, pricing, forecast, P&L)• Builds strong relationship with vendors (1 quarterly visit in Asia)• Leads Purchasing / Engineering / Supply Chain / Marcom for new products introduction• Trains Sales, attends Sales & Press Events and addresses directly key customers

• Manages the NEC Accessories Product Line (vendor selection, cost negotiation, catalogue creation, lifecycle management, pricing, forecast, P&L)• Leads Purchasing / Engineering / Supply Chain / Marcom for new products introduction• Trains Sales and develops new Business opportunities

• Manages Innovation consumer oriented projects in the New Concepts & Technology team, providing technical support & new products concepts to Marketing• Makes the interface between Marketing and Engineering Development for new products introduction• Focused on: Media Centre like solution (10’ experience), Ease of Use, Human Interface Devices, Graphic User Interface, HiFi PC

• Represents NEC Computers Europe in Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, United States of America• Evangelised main Microsoft projects – concept/development/beta program/release: Windows XP, Windows Media Centre, Windows Tablet PC, Pocket PC, SmartPhone…• Evangelised technology trends by attending IT Events (WinHEC, IDF, Comdex…)

• Manages Professional Desktops projects being the interface between Marketing and other departments• Managed and maintained 9 different commercial PC projects: 1 shared with US & Japan, 3 with US, 2 with Japan, 3 for Europe only

• Manages all Software Tools Development (preload creation + production + recovery for customers) / team of 2 engineers and 2 technicians + engineer trainees• Implementation of Win98 and its Software Engineering Process: new preload components (“parts”) system definition that makes the preload creation process flexible and easy to use• Livingston & Angers production sites: new preload creation engineering tool implementation (ATO production download process design in Scotland then in France using the “modular” concept)