Guiding our customers from concept to implementation requires expertise, rigor and proven methodologies. Consequently, we have carefully assembled a dedicated team of talented industry veterans, visionaries, and young innovative engineers to reliably deliver on the commitments we make to our customers.
Dr. Stéphane RENARD, Chairman and Founder (left)
Stéphane envisioned the market need for a manufacturer of custom components and founded Tronics in 1997 in response to industry requirements. He has more than 20 years of experience in R&D in MEMS and optoelectronics. He served as R&D manager for MEMS sensors at CEA-LETI, where he participated in numerous projects and technology transfers in optoelectronics and MEMS from 1983-1997.
Dr. Peter PFLUGER, Chief Executive Officer (seated)
Peter joined Tronics in 2002 with more than 17 years of executive management experience in semiconductors and other high-tech industries. Prior to that, he served as both COO and CEO of the PHONAK Group from 1997-2002, and as managing director of CSEM SA from 1991-1997. Peter serves as a director in several boards.
Christian PISELLA, Director of Operations (right)
Christian joined Tronics as CTO in 1998 and now heads R&D and manufacturing operations. He has more than 35 years of experience in the MEMS and semiconductor industries. From 1990-98, Christian held a variety of technical management positions at Silmag. Prior to that, he spent 20 years at CEA-LETI, where he worked on silicon technologies development.
Damien PACCARD, Director of Finance and Administration (second from left)
Damien joined Tronics in 2002, following a variety of finance and administrative positions with Dell Computer and Deloitte & Touche. From 1996-2002, he was finance controller for Dell in Paris and European accounting manager at Dell's EMEA headquarters in Bracknell, U.K. Prior to that he served six years as a chartered accountant and senior auditor for Deloitte & Touche in Paris.
Ariel CAO, Director, Business Development North America
Ariel has more than 20 years of marketing and management experience in the MEMS and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Tronics, he established and served as general manager of the U.S. entity of PHS MEMS. He also worked with MEMSCAP as executive vice president of marketing and general manager of its U.S. operations. Earlier in his career, Ariel worked as an IC designer, software developer and manager with several IC design groups at EXAR, Silicon Compilers, Sun Microsystems and Mentor Graphics.
Natacha RAPHOZ, Project Engineer (front)
Since 2001, Natacha's proactive skills have supported our MOEMS and BioMEMS collaborative development projects. At Tronics, she has effectively leveraged her solid physics and materials education in the U.K. and her experience at CEA-LETI, where she worked on MEMS above IC technologies.
Guilhem ALIBERT, Production Planning and Logistics Manager (left)
Guilhem joined Tronics in 2003 to reinforce the production team. His rigor and reliability are keys to effective production planning and precise customer deliveries. Before joining Tronics, he was manager of the micro-fabrication competency group at the CORNING European R&D centre.
Dr. Stéphane NICOLAS, Senior Engineer (right)
Stéphane joined Tronics in 2003. Applying his expertise and collaborative skills, he guides customer development projects from concept to manufacturing. He has more than 10 years of experience in advanced semiconductor processes. Stéphane previously worked as senior optical MEMS process engineer at the CORNING European R&D centre.
Vincent GAFF, Marketing and PR Manager (top)
Vincent joined Tronics in 1999 to lead our marketing and corporate communications activities. His proactivity and commitment have helped build our international projects and create awareness of our capabilities with key audiences. Vincent previously worked at CEA-LETI's marketing department, where he focused on MEMS sensor technology.
Bruno ARABIA, Production Manager (left)
Bruno joined Tronics in 1999 after 20 years of manufacturing-team management in the semiconductor industry. He started his career at Motorola Semiconductors in Toulouse in 1986 and then joined Silmag in 1992. Bruno has created an excellent team spirit and professional manufacturing methodologies in our clean rooms.
Philippe AZOLEY, Process Engineer (2nd from left)
Philippe is a talented engineer who started his career at Tronics in 2002 to develop and industrialize new processes. His precision and skills were key to establishing our FMEA methodologies. His work has lead to quality and reliability improvements for our technologies and yield enhancements for our products.
Francis COMPAGNON, Quality Manager (2nd from right)
Francis heads Tronics' quality activities. He joined our team in 2002, bringing with him 30 years of experience in semiconductor and electronic-contract manufacturing for defence and telecom applications. He previously held management positions in Sagem and SCI.
Jean-Marc GILET, Process and Supply Chain Manager (right)
Jean-Marc joined Tronics in 2002. Since then he has rigorously managed clean room and equipment investments, supply chains and processes. He was previously process team leader at STMicroelectronics working in major process development projects.
François GARDIEN, Project Engineer (left)
François has been in charge of electronic-interface and pressure-sensor development since January 2006. Previously, he worked in a medical engineering company developing microsystems that measure physiological signals during surgery. He studied electrical and computer engineering in Singapore (NUS) and France (INPG).
Dr. Christophe KERGUERIS, Senior Engineer (2nd from left)
Christophe joined Tronics in 2002 to work on design of new products and support for MEMS electronic interfaces. He collaborates with customers to adapt existing concepts to their specifications and develop innovative inertial concepts. He previously worked on MEMS medical projects, and on RF chips and substrates assembly at ALCATEL CIT.
Dr. Olivier GIGAN, Project Engineer (2nd from right)
Olivier, a creative and highly skilled Ph.D., joined Tronics in 2000 to work on the development of a resonant pressure sensor for harsh environments for Schlumberger. His contributions strengthened Tronics' expertise in high performance sensors and innovative processes. Olivier's responsibilities include leading our new sensor projects, including guiding our customers from specification to product.
Julien BON, Test & Reliability Manager (right)
Julien is a bright and innovative engineer who has established and led our Test and Reliability Department since 2001. His how-to skills and his exceptional oversight capabilities were keys in building an efficient feed-back loop between products FMEA and process data to increase product yields and robustness. Julien previously worked at STMicroelectronics SmartCards test department.
Dr. Joël COLLET, Senior Engineer
Joël joined Tronics in 2000. He is in charge of design-for-manufacturing and process development. His technical creativity has contributed significantly to industrializing high performances MEMS sensors. He previously worked as project manager at ISEN, and on BiCMOS process simulation for Philips.
Marjorie TRZMIEL, Project Engineer
Marjorie has been working for us since 1999. Rigorous and methodical, she has built strong customer relationships at Tronics. She devised significant technology solutions for RF MEMS components, while working for Nokia RC and Thales Airborne. Prior to joining our team, Marjorie studied in Germany and worked at Daimler-Benz Aerospace Dornier.
