Crocus Technology Advisors
Crocus Technical Advisory Board is comprised of internationally renowned scientists and industry experts.
Bernard Dieny, Spintec
Bernard is world-famous for the discovery of spin valves but this was not his only achievement. Throughout his career, he has contributed to major breakthroughs in spintronics, similarly at ease in theoretical physics and applied science. Bernard has spend most of his career in CEA/Grenoble, where he is now Spintec deputy head. He also spent two long term assignments at IBM Research and University California San Diego. Bernard holds more than 30 patents and signed about 250 scientific publications. He received an outstanding achievement award from IBM in 1992 and was awarded from the French Society of Physics in 1999. Bernard graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and got a PhD in Physics from the University of Grenoble, France.
Jean-Eric Wegrowe, Ecole Polytechnique
Jean-Eric is a Professor in Physics at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, after starting his carreer as a first assistant in the Nanophysic Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland). Jean-Eric is an expert in the area of magnetism and transport phenomena in nanostructured materials, mesoscopic physics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is expert evaluator for various public and private institutions. Jean-Eric obtained a Master in Science in Physics and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Grenoble, France (1996).
Jean-Pierre Nozieres, Founder
Jean-Pierre has worked in both France and Silicon Valley, alternating positions in research and industry. He was a research scientist in magnetics at IBM-San Jose, research staff at France’s National Research center (CNRS), development manager at Applied Magnetics in Santa Barbara and Techincal director at PHS-MEMS, a french start-up company. He then launched and directed the Spintec laboratory which Crocus was spun-off from. He is the inventor of many international patents and has authored more than 100 scientific publications. Jean-Pierre holds an engineering degree from the Institut National Polytechnique (Grenoble) and a PhD in Physics from Grenoble University (France).
Luc-Olivier Bauer, executive consultant
Over the last 30 years, Luc-Olivier has served in various US and european high technology companies, covering all aspects from engineering to manufacturing, finance, marketing/sales, and general management as a founder, member of the board or president. Among those were Hana Microdisplay Technology, SVISION, nCHIP, Integrated Device Technology, and Eurosil/Intersil. Since returning in Europe in December 2001, he became board member and mentor to a number of local high technology start-ups with focus in microelectronics, display, and lately micro- and nano-technologies with and without biotechnology aspects, working on the development of infrastructures necessary for their successful developments. Luc-Olivier obtained his Master in Science in Physics from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Caltech in Pasadena (USA).
Nelson Chan
Mr. Chan served as Chief Executive Officer of Magellan, a leader in consumer, survey, GIS and OEM GPS navigation and positioning markets, from 2006 to 2008. At Magellan Mr. Chan more than doubled annual revenues from $200 million to over $500 million and turned the business profitable in 12 months. Magellan was successfully sold to Mitac Corporation. From 1992 through 2006, Mr. Chan served in various senior management positions with SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash branded data storage products, including Vice President of Global Marketing, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing and most recently as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Business. At SanDisk, Mr. Chan helped drive the business from startup to over $3 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Chan led SanDisk's entry into the retail business and was instrumental in creating and driving its retail presence through a branded product portfolio. That business has grown to over $2 billion in annual revenues in under seven years with products being available through over 250,000 store fronts worldwide. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Chan held marketing and engineering positions at Chips and Technologies, Signetics, and Delco Electronics. Mr. Chan is a member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Labs, a public fabless, analog-intensive mixed-signal semiconductor company; and Synaptics, a public company that is a leading worldwide developer and supplier of custom-designed human interface solutions that enable people to interact more easily and intuitively with a wide variety of mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. Mr. Chan is also a director or Chairman of the Board of several privately held companies. Mr. Chan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.
