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Bruno CHARRAT

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En résumé

Bruno is VP Operation at DETERMINE in charge of EMEA operationnal organizations after b-pack company being acquired by DETERMINE on July 2015 where Bruno was COO.

Prior to b-pack, Bruno was a founding member of INSIDE Secure and was responsible for charting INSIDE’s technology and product future. He has played active roles in the development of contactless industry standards and owns essential patents for NFC and other technology innovations. During his tenure at INSIDE, Bruno has defined architectures for the company’s products, developed innovative microcontroller & NFC technologies, and led product management and business development efforts for INSIDE NFC products. Prior to INSIDE, Bruno served as a system engineer at Gemplus, doing seminal work on contactless readers, RFID, and smart card technology.

Specialties: Innovation, Management, Product, Marketing, Patent, Standard
Technologies : NFC, Mobile, Payment, Banking, Security, Cloud, Contactless, RFID, Wireless

Entreprises

  • DETERMINE - VP Operations EMEA

    Puteaux 2015 - maintenant En charge des opérations Europe du groupe Determine

  • b-pack - COO

    Puteaux 2013 - 2015 Bruno is Chief Operating Officer at b-pack in charge of operationnal organizations.

  • INSIDE Secure - Founder, Chief Innovation Officer

    Meyreuil 2009 - 2013 Activities :
    • Mapping strategic business and product direction
    • Evaluating new technologies and business opportunities
    • Patent / Standardization management

  • INSIDE Contactless - Founder, VP NFC Product line & Chief Scientist

    2005 - 2009 Activities:
    • Managing a team of 21 people
    • NFC product line management
    • Patent / Standardization management
    • Patent dispute management with attorneys
    • Technical advisor for company, investors

    Key achievements:
    • NFC Product Line management and integration support for mobiles phones. Starting from a white page to successful integration of 10 NFC mobile phones
    • Initial business development for NFC in 2006-2007 with trials including Mobile operators and banks (account management, contracts, partnership with Axalto for SWP, ...)
    • Successful integration of an external team (Sagem) to my current team
    • Application for several patents and two internal award as "patent of the year"
    • Active participation to ETSI and NFC Forum to define new standards

  • INSIDE Contactless - Founder, CTO

    1999 - 2005 Activities:
    • Managing the R&D department (chip design, reader design, firwmare and software)
    • Standardization management and participation (ISO 14443, ISO 15693)

    Key achievements:
    • Applying for several patents including essential patent defining NFC technology (2000)
    • Development of a new MicroProcessor core with a contactless interface (sold to more than 200Mu from 2005 - 2010)
    • Development of RFID readers and tags, contactless readers

  • INSIDE Technologies - Founder, System product manager & Development

    1995 - 1999 Activities:
    • Defining new products (specifications)
    • Product development including chip design, testing, RF analog hardware, FPGA, harware and firmware

    Key Achievements:
    • Definition of a new Microprocessor core (16-bit RISC core) dedicated for contactless market
    • Active participation for ISO14443 standard (1996 - 2002) defining the base technology and negociating technical/political proposals
    • Design and test 3 contactless chips
    • Applying for several patents

  • GEMPLUS - Contactless & RFID System engineer

    Meudon 1992 - 1995 Development of RFID/Contactless readers (Philips, Mifare, Idesco, ...) and battery powered RF token : Firmware and Hardware
    First patent for optimized radio collision management

Formations

  • POLYTECH'MARSEILLE (Marseille)

    Marseille 1988 - 1991 Ingénieur

  • Lycée Vauvenargues

    Aix En Provence 1987 - 1988 BTS

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