Raphaël Baillot Email & Phone Number

Member of Corporate R&D reporting to the Executive Vice President of R&DMain responsibilities: - Setup and lead the Technological and collaborative Innovation roadmap to create and design the next generations of connected and secure IoT solutions to optimize the management of water networks, HVAC installations, smart grids and public lighting.- Innovation funding and management: Set up and ensure the successful execution of all collaborative projects within the Environment activity and related Business Units.- Partnerships: Strengthen our ecosystems and develop value-creating technological partnerships for useful, robust and secure connected technologies.

Rennes, Bretagne, France

LACROIX is an international technological equipment supplier whose ambition is to put its technical and industrial excellence at the service of a connected and responsible world. As a listed SME company, we combine the agility that’s essential to innovating in a constantly changing technological universe with the long-term vision to invest and build the future : connected technologies for a smarter world.Member Corporate R&D Team headed by Executive VP R&D.Key responsibilities : - Partner with R&D and product management teams to create a multi-year product & service strategy enabling us to retain and extend our position as an industry major in remote monitoring of drinking and waste water networks. - Tech Leader for one of the major technological domains addressed at group level - Identify and drive strategic R&D partnerships with new and upcoming technology players to enable access to unique, and market differentiating technology in Water and Energy activity.

Bordeaux Area, France

Key Responsibilities : - Lead the product development (reporting to CEO),- Lead the new digital Services Platform development,- Create and fund the 2019-2021 product & service roadmap enabling us to retain and extend our wolrdwide position as a market leader in solar street lighting and solution provider,- Represent the technology view in company’s innovation process,- Lead and manage IP,- Ensure we have right blend of internally developed products, and those built with best in breed partners.- Lead team of 15 hardware, embedded software, mechanical engineers, front end/back end, NoSQL database developers, project managers that perform end to end design, development and delivery of products,- Partner with design and marketing teams to drive trade-offs to ensure we have the right balance of time to market, cost, QCDT risks and product differentiation,- Actively partner with Purchasing dpt to secure double sourcing and significantly improve Total Cost of each Product,- Define KPIs for success of each new product and service, aligning across all key functions,- Monitor performance of existing products in field, and keep a very low annual failure rate,- Constantly loop with sales and operations to ensure continous improvement of both product and development process (ISO 9001 standard).Key achievements : > 17 000 reliable solar street lights delivered with significant total cost savings> New Mobile App. (android-based) connected to our street lights to perform monitoring and actively facilitating customer care service : 300+ users> 1st release of a Web Services Plateform connected to the App and Factory of the Future> Customs projects : 240 solar bus shelters (Nigeria, France, Belgium), 120 Totems (Dubai)> New R&D project funded : 3 partners, 3M€ budget (1.4M€ for Sunna granted at 60%)> Product failure rate divided by 2 (initially very low !)> IP : Protection of the Mobile App Source Code and 4 industrial designs

Masterclass "Complex Negotiation - Essentials" – Bordeaux (33 - France) – 2020Duration : 2 daysTechnical training tools that are immediately assimilated and usable in daily negotiations based on the PACIFICAT© reference to prepare for, conduct, close and debrief any kind of negotiation.PACIFICAT© is an international negotiation method developed by Laurent Combalbert and Marwan Mery, widely used in more than 40 countries wolrdwide. It has saved hundreds of lives and peacefully resolved thousands of conflicts since its inception.Trainers : Laurent COMBALBERT and Marwan MERY"Project OnLine Professional" – Blanquefort (33 - France) – 2019Duration : 3 daysTechnical training to administrate and efficiently manage multi-project R&D roadmap integrating two methodologies : AGILE and PROJECT daily used by multidisciplinary R&D teams.Trainer : Didier MAIGNAN"Microsoft Project Professional 2016" – Blanquefort (33 - France) – 2018Duration : 2 days, Technical training to improve the use of MSP 2016 software.Trainer : Dejan Radenkovic

Bordeaux Area, France

Key Responsibilities : - Lead the R&D and Innovation roadmap of 14M€ budget within 2 consortium composed of 10 industry majors and scientific laboratories,- Lead the rapid industrial growth of Sunna Design through R&D strategic partnerships and internally partner with production team and manager to develop a highly innovative "Factory of the Future" also well-known as the so called Industry 4.0. KPI : Production capacity of 100kpdts/year- Lead the development of Smart Energy Management System (Electronics) through R&D partners and Hardware / Software internal engineers- Transverse management of more than 23 projects managers, HW/SW and mechanical engineers (internal and external teams)- Lead IP Key achievements : > 1 awarded Factory of the Future : Takt Time divided by 4, Capacity x2 : 210 kpcs/year, > 5 000 PCBA manufactured> Key custom project : 1 000 solar custom lighting "benches" especially designed for the Cultural Center of King Abdulaziz (South Arabia)> IP : 3 patents published, 5 patents bought

Blanquefort (33)

Key responsibilities :- Define & fund R&D roadmap 2012-2014 - Active partner with CEO, CFO and co-founder to perform our two first fund raisings- Identify, federate and drive strategic french partnerships with industry and scientific majors to build the 2015-2017 R&D roadmap - Lead the first version of our solar charge controller developed with a regional subcontrator- Partner with the co-founder acting as the product development manager and designer to manufacture the first 1 000 solar street lights at least- Double the NiMH Battery lifetime at high temperature (>40°C ambient temp.) and high DoD (> 90%) to reach 6 years- IP managerKey achievements : > 2012-2014 R&D roadmap fully granted upon a 0.9M€ budget> 2 000 first solar street lights co-developed with the co-founder of Sunna Design> 3 000 first solar charge controller developed and manufactured> Solar Street Lights lifetime tripled (10 years reached !) thanks to excellent passive patented thermal management and smart Battery Management System algorithms> Launch of R&D roadmap 2015-2017 funded @ 47% involving 7 industry majors, 2 scientific labs and 1 technology center> 2 fundraisings successfully achieved : 1.3M€ closed in March 2013, then 5.3M€ closed in Dec. 2014> IP : 6 patents published, 3 trademarks

Aquitaine, France

Responsible for several students groups (10 to 30 students/group)Levels of teaching : 1st to 5th year of UniversityCourses : Analog/digital Electronics, VHDL, Labview, C++ and student coaching (educational guidance)Allocated quota : 196 h for 1 yearPublications writing on results of my Ph.D, Working on my Ph.D perspectives (Solid State Lighting - LED Technologies)

Région De Bordeaux , France

Failure analysis of low/high power GaN-based Light Emitting Diodes used for space/solid state lighting applications respectivelyManagement of two projects :1/ High power GaN-based LED (> 100 mW : blue and white) in collaboration with industry (France) : CEA-LETI (LED Assembly)2/ Low power GaN-based blue LED (< 30 mW) in collaboration with French Space Agency (CNES)Collaborations with laboratories (France) : INSA University, CENBG Lab, ISM Lab, ICMCB Lab Physical Analyses : De-cap and De-process : Cross-sections of chips and packaged LEDs, extraction of chips (300x300 µm2) and polymer coating from 5 mm packaged LEDs, wet etchingPhysico-chemical analyses performed in collaboration : MEB/EDX, SIMS, RBS/PIXE, Fluorescence absorption/emission analyses, Mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), 1H NMR, ATR analysis, DSC analysis, Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray DiffractionTraining & TeachingResponsible for several students groups (10 to 30 students/group)Levels of teaching : 1st to 3rd year of UniversityCourses : Analog/digital Electronics and student coaching (educational guidance)Allocated quota : 232 h for 3 yearsTrainees management (internship) : Participation to the management of 7 students training from January 2008 to September 2010 on topics related to my team research thematicsLength : 2 to 6 months, Education level : 2nd to 5th year of UniversityParticipation to ANR (National Research Agency) project submission : in charge of writing market study + state-of-the-art of GaN-LED technologies.Topic : LED-based Luminaries for decorationsReferees : Thesis advisor : Pr. Yves Ousten -> +33 (0)5 4000 6547Thesis co-advisor : Dr. Yannick Deshayes -> +33 (0)5 4000 2768

Aquitaine, France

"Positive communication & Psychology" – Talence (33 - France)Duration : 5 days, Positive communication skills for complex relationships managementTrainer : Sylvie Desqué"Creative intelligence" – Pessac (33 – France)Duration : 3 days, Creative intelligence development : Communication tools & methods for conflict responding, project meetings & management)Trainer : Alain Labruffe"Communication & Project management" – Pessac (33 – France)Duration : 4 days, Communication skills & Project management tools : ABC tool, Brainstorming, Circept, Matrices (discovery, positions, decisions), Causes/Actions Time diagram, PERT diagram, cause and effect diagram, team management, start up/manage/close meetingsTrainer : Alain Labruffe"Public speaking" – Talence (33 – France)Duration : 3 days, Communication tools for stress, body and voice management & control Trainer : Claude Antoniazzi"Project management" – Gradignan (33 – France)Duration : 4 days, Project management tools : Gantt diagram, Work Breakdown Structure, risk and cost evaluation, PERT & METRA methodsTrainer : Gérard Massard, Gino Gramaccia

Ph.D, Optoélectronique

Topic : Optoelectronics, Ph.D defence : Nov. 21, 2011 Title : "Methodology of failure analysis for reliability estimation of GaN-based.

Fluent

Postgraduate Degree (1 Year Following My Master), Optoelectronics, Laser & Photonics, Nanotechnologies

Fiber optics, LED, Photodiodes, OLED, Nanomaterials, solid state lasers

Bachelor Degree, Electronics

High School Diploma, Sciences