JEAN-FRANCOIS BOISSON

Jean-Francois BOISSON is a French Citizen born in 1944.
 
He holds a Master of  Electronics, a PhD of Business Management from Paris-Dauphine University, and an advance marketing award from HEC.
 
He has 40 years of business experience mostly for Software producers and Professional Services enterprises. He was deputy general manager of Gemini France, strategic planning VP of Bull’s  Group for office and telematic businesses, and Business Unit VP of Gemplus for security and professional services businesses.
 
He was one of the founder of the aerospace cluster since 2004. He define the strategic positionning of this cluster, the market approach, and the business objectives. He is currently in charge of the business development of the aerospace cluster Pegase in Provence French Riviera with a strong involvement for international cooperation, fund raising and employment. He is administrator of the cluster.
 
He participate to the Roissy Charles’ de Gaulle specifications for process controls systems as Aeroport de Paris team member. He has develop a system to control small rockets perfect launch. He specify for the DGAC how to better organize the technical library for airplanes manufacturing.
 
He launches and he was strongly involved in more than 30 European funded research large projects. He receives 3 international awards for his implementations of research : IPR electronic management, teleworking, eBusiness network.
 
He has created with success three companies that he sold to Bull and Gemplus. His main skill is the launching of new business activities or services mainly by the move from Product approach to Solution approach which integrate both professional services and partnership approach.
 
He recently publish several papers in the field of services, industry transformation and the leverage of international partnerships.
 
He is senior advisor to the Chamber of Commerce of Marseille as well as the Union of Marseille's enterprises (Medef) in charge of innovation and competitiveness. He was the initiator of the cluster momentum in Provence since 2001.
 
He is fluent in English with a long experience of international cooperations.
 
He is expert toward the European Union Commission and he has performed several international missions.

Jean-Francois Boisson