Philippe Faurie

Philippe has a background in software engineering and executive management of small to mid- size companies, where he has worked closely with the business and scientific teams to design complex software products such that they are optimized and productizable. He has led several start-up ventures at the CEO and COO level in the wireless and medical devices areas.

He started his career as a software engineer in a French start-up, in which he led the entire software team as it grew from 1 to 100 engineers in 5 years, designing the first ever cellular phone software for Samsung. Based on its strong end product, he led the company expansion into the US and was instrumental to its successful Nasdaq IPO in 2000.