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Benoit CALLIER

PARIS

En résumé

Benoit Callier - Product Development Director
Executive MBA at ESCP Europe
25 Patent Families (65 Worldwide Patents)
15 years of Innovation in Humanoid robotics, Augmented and Mixed Reality.

Interested in corporate governance within an international and innovative high-tech company.
- Specialties: Product Strategy, Project Management, Research and Development Team Management, Innovation Partnerships, Consumer & Prosumer, B2B2C
- Fields: Robotics, AI & IoT // Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality // Design, Ergonomics // Human Machine Interface (HMI) & Brain Machine Interface (BMI) // Entertainment, Eyecare, Senior

Passionate by the impacts of new technologies on societal evolution, I am a trailblazer in the next revolution of our connected world.

For 15 years, I led Researches and Developments on innovative technologies, I’ve been the inventor of 25 international Patent families (65 Patents worldwide) and I launched trendsetting products on the market.
• I am currently designing and selling Humanoid robots whom people can naturally interact with as a companion and a physical avatar of the Artificial Intelligence.
• I previously developed Mixed Reality Eyewear which combines the Virtual Reality with the real world and vision of a wearer, enhancing workers, seniors or visually impaired people’s capabilities.

I am convinced that everyone should be able to leverage from the Digital Revolution by accessing the shared knowledge and intelligence of the Internet anywhere, at any time and without learning curves.
So, I am involved in Collaborative Research, Open Innovation and Open Source Projects which contribute to this collective intelligence. But to improve everyone’s day-to-day work and life a technology breakthrough must occur. The technology should adapt to mankind, up to a point it will be a part of the human’s world, and even a part of us!

I devote my life to be at the cutting edge of technologies and create revolutionary products which enhance human being as well as set new market trends.

Mes compétences :
Engineering
Brevets
Management de projets
Management
Conduite du changement
Stratégie
Recherche et Développement
R&D
Innovation
Développement produit

Entreprises

  • SoftBank Robotics - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    2017 - maintenant (Board of Directors' member)
    in charge of future humanoid robots

    – Team & Corporate growth, Change Management –
    • Rethink Innovation & Research activities portfolio
    • Heighten awareness of Users’ needs among management & tech teams
    • Move from Platform to a whole Product Vision
    • Structured Product exploration and defined Product & Project scope
    • Broke silos to establish & grow transversal Project matrix organization
    • Widened Product Finished Goods ref. and optimized ‘Make to Order’ process
    • Rebuilt trustworthy co-work relationships with SoftBank Group & Partners

    – Product Portfolio Strategy –
    Defined the next robots with stakeholders & COMEX members

    – Product Vision & Market Fit –
    • Analyzed product value, ecosystem, business model, markets & competition
    • Identified Users’ pain points and settled User centric design loops (Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Agile, MVP) to sustain sales/profits growth

    – Product Technology Roadmap –
    Defined the 5-year Development Plan with R&D and Engineering teams

    – Product Management –
    Provided short & long-term Product Vision, Development and Life-cycle (PLC)

    – PEPPER Program / Project management and execution –
    Supervised full development of 2 robot generations (45 M€, 200 engineers full-time) from product definition to development, production and worldwide launch (JP, CN, EMEA, AMERA, APAC)
  • Essilor - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SENIOR MANAGER

    Charenton-le-Pont 2012 - 2017 on see-through Augmented Reality & Mixed Reality Eyewear and its medical applications for seniors & visually impaired

    – Science & Technology Partnerships –
    Managed 18 M€ consortiums (Casino, Orange, Réunica, the Vision Institute...) & JDAs (Israel, USA, CA, FR), 12 partners with Government subsidies (Investissement d’avenir, Horizon 2020, BPI France)

    – Innovation Strategy –
    Led a smart & strategic protection: 97 patents worldwide in 5 years

    – R&D Team creation –
    Built & recruited multidisciplinary highly skilled researchers (5 talents)

    – R&D Program / Project Management –
    Directed 25 full-time researchers worldwide on interdisciplinary R&D projects

    – Product & User oriented –
    • Led customer & product discovery, set-up Design Thinking methodology
    • Established user tests for quick innovative and market fit design loops
    • Increased prototyping capability and quality by 3 in 1 year – From experimental unitary production to robust batch of 5 with 90% yield

    – 25 international patent families (as inventor) –
    on Applications (9), Business (4), Process / Indus. (7) and Technology (5) fields
  • Essilor - PROGRAM COORDINATOR

    Charenton-le-Pont 2010 - 2012 for R&D, Engineering & Production projects (90 engineers full-time)

    – Worldwide Programs Management –
    Coordinated 24 programs in Dallas, Paris, Bangkok, Bangalore, Warsaw…

    – Partnerships & Team Management –
    Created 2 postgraduate school partnerships & Supervised 2 Master students
  • Essilor - PROJECT MANAGER

    Charenton-le-Pont 2006 - 2010 for R&D, Engineering & Production projects (90 engineers full-time)

    – Worldwide Programs Management –
    Coordinated 24 programs in Dallas, Paris, Bangkok, Bangalore, Warsaw…

    – Partnerships & Team Management –
    Created 2 postgraduate school partnerships & Supervised 2 Master students
  • Essilor - PROCESS ENGINEER

    Charenton-le-Pont 2005 - 2006 in Global Engineering dept. (Anti-reflective & protective coatings + Casting)

    – Quality investigation & Process improvement –
    Programmed Software for monitoring plastic coating & finishing by dip, sputtering and vacuum material deposits
  • ESSILOR OF AMERICA - PROCESS ENGINEER

    2005 - 2005 in Global Engineering dept. (Anti-reflective & protective coatings + Casting)

    – Process & Production Industrialization –
    Developed Plastic casting process & technologies, experimented on Pilot production line and trained operators
  • Altra Motion - MANUFACTURING ENGINEER (at Portescap plant)

    2003 - 2004 in Miniature Motion Solutions (coders, gears and micro motors)

    – Production Management –
    Installed line, managed operators, insured production volume and quality

Formations

  • ESCP Europe

    Paris 2015 - 2016 Executive Master of Business Administration

    Executive MBA, 10th worldwide & 3rd for International experience on 2017 Financial Time ranking
    / Triple-crown accredited (EQUIS, AMBA, AACSB), Strategy, Management, Finance, Economy & Marketing
    / Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Turin +Louvain, Shanghai & Cornell universities
  • Université Besançon Franche Comte

    Besancon 2003 - 2005 MASTER degree of Research on Mechatronics

    Mention Bien / Upper second class Honours / Grade B+ pass
    Teachings:
    • Mathematics and Physics-chemistry lessons to High School Students.
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure De Mécanique Et Des Microtechniques

    Besancon 2002 - 2005 MASTER degree of Engineering in Mechanics and Microtechnics

    4th place in the class
    Robotics: • Participation to design and construct robots for the French school
    championship during 2 years.

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