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Emmanuel Sabonnadiere Named Leti CEO
NXP Announces Community-Based Industrial Linux
Distribution for Industry 4.0
Leti, a technology research institute
of CEA Tech, today announced that
Emmanuel Sabonnadiere has been
named CEO, succeeding Marie-Noelle
Semeria.
Sabonnadiere, who has more than
25 years of executive leadership
experience in a variety of large
technology environments, joins
Leti from CEA Tech, where he led
the industrial-partnership program. He brings a strong
background in new-technology development with broad
private-sector expertise in operational excellence, team
building and guiding multicultural organizations in business
transformation in Europe and globally.
As Leti’s chief executive officer, Sabonnadiere leads
the activities of one of Europe’s largest micro- and
nanotechnologies research institutes, which employs
approximately 1,900 scientists and engineers, has a portfolio
of 2,700 patents and has launched more than 60 startups.
“Success in today’s demanding international digital
landscape requires a combination of deep technological
expertise, advanced platforms, a commitment to customer
and partner success and a shared excitement and agility
about the new opportunities,” Sabonnadiere said. “This is
where Leti is today, and I am very excited to join this world-
NXP Semiconductors™ N.V., a
worldwide leader in advanced
secure
connectivity
solutions,
today announced an industrial
Linux distribution with real-time
OS extensions and Time-Sensitive
Networking (TSN) support for factory-
automation OEMs. By breaking down
the barriers of real-time computing
and networking in a standard, community-based distribution,
Open Industrial Linux (OpenIL) helps these OEMs usher in
the Industry 4.0 era.
The OpenIL distribution includes TSN support, per-stream
class team to develop the solutions
that will bring digital innovations to
the benefit of leading technology
companies around the world.”
Pior to joining CEA, Sabonnadiere was
CEO of the Philips Lighting’s Business
Group Professional in Amsterdam.
From 2008 to 2014, he was CEO and
chairman of General Cable Europe in
Barcelona, and from 2005 to 2008 he served as CEO of NKM
Noell in Wurzburg, Germany. Before that, he served as vice
president of Alstom T&D for five years. Early in his career,
he held multiple positions at Schneider Electric, including
managing director of development for equipment units.
During his career, he has designed and implemented
strategic plans for process optimization, product redesign-
to-costs, market repositioning and system development.
Sabonnadiere holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Ecole
Centrale de Lyon, an MBA degree from Ecole Supérieure
des Affaires de Grenoble and an engineering degree in
information technology from the Université Technologie
Compiègne.
Sabonnadiere is a fully qualified instructor at the ski school
in Les Ménuires, and member of the advisory board of IAC
policing, time-aware shaping of
network traffic, and 801.1AS time
synchronization. TSN Ethernet is
integrated in the Layerscape LS1028A
industrial applications processor
announced by NXP in March 2017.
Senior Industry Analyst Dan Mandell
of VDC Research Group, Inc.,
said, “NXP has taken a leadership
role with the OpenIL distro in focusing Linux designers
specifically on industrial automation opportunities, while
simultaneously leveraging its Layerscape System-on-
Chip (SoC) capabilities to enable Industry 4.0 smart
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