The keynote at WoMAN’11 will be given by Claude PERRON
THOMSON VIDEO NETWORKS, Vice President
- Chief Technology Officer since 2008
- General Manager of the Grass Valley Compression Product Line (2005-2007) : Business Unit dedicated to MPEG professional encoders & decoders
- Nextream R&D director 1999-2004 (JV between Alcatel and Thomson)
- International R&D Management: Rennes, Zurich, Melbourne
- Dual Education: Master of Business Administration graduated from Institut Français de Gestion (1999) and Engineer graduated from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (1981)
- Long track record as a video compression expert with contribution of essential compression patents to MPEG-LA, THOMSON CEO patent awards in 1993 and 2003
- Management of the development of the market leading ViBE Compression products, starting by 2 generations of encoder products before MPEG-2 (ETSI), 3 generations of MPEG-2 encoders, 2 generations of MPEG-4 encoders (including the development of the MUSTANG chip)
- Pioneer for today’s well known compression techniques, starting as a researcher on the DV format in the 80’s.
Claude PERRON is Vice President of THOMSON VIDEO NETWORKS where he acts as Chief Technology Officer since 2008. He previously occupied several positions such as General Manager of the Grass Valley Compression Product Line (2005-2008) heading a Business Unit dedicated to MPEG professional encoders & decoders for digital television. Within Nextream, a joint venture between Alcatel and Thomson, he was R&D director (1999-2004), managing R&D teams in Rennes, Zurich, Melbourne. Claude received a dual education, Master of Business Administration and Engineer, graduated from Institut Français de Gestion (1999) and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (1981). With a long track record as a video compression expert, he contributed essential compression patents to MPEG-LA and received twice the THOMSON CEO patent award (1993, 2003). He successfully managed the development of the market leading ViBE Compression products starting by 2 generations of encoder products before MPEG-2 (ETSI), 3 generations of MPEG-2 encoders, 2 generations of MPEG-4 encoders (including the development of the MUSTANG chip). He has been a pioneer for today’s well known compression techniques, starting his career as a researcher on the DV format in the 80’s.
