Former Vice President Quality, Tesla Motors

After graduating from Mines ParisTech in 1990, he started his career at Renault and as soon as 1993 dedicated himself to electric vehicle development.
He was a project manager of several new models for Renault in France, South Korea and Turkey, and for Nissan in the United States. In 2011 he joined Tesla as Vice President Quality and managed the validation and certification of the Model S.
After moving back to France, he has worked as an independent strategy consultant in electric mobility, before joining a major German car builder as the leader of its electric vehicle project.

Articles from this author

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  Business / 2015-12-09

  Tesla’s computer on wheels

  Philippe Chain / Former Vice President Quality, Tesla Motors

  With the Model S, Tesla offers not only “the best car in the world,” but also an object from the Silicon Valley, closer in its architecture to a mobile electronic device than to a car, in the conventional sense. The electronics and system …