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 Laurent CHIVALLIER,
APiLINX, Founder & CEO.
Laurent is the founder of Apilinx a start up in mobile services for healthy lifestyle adoption. He is a former Senior Director of Marketing at NXP Semiconductors mobile phone Business Line where he launched the first Open Source LINUX 3G system solution for multimedia phones.
Before that position, Laurent held several corporate strategy,marketing, product management and sales positions within the Philips Group. He has been in charge of the definition and deployment of strategies to address future fixed/mobile convergence platforms based on Open OS combining high-speed internet, Multimedia, connectivity, television and telephony for mobile portable devices. Laurent has been instrumental in the definition of software strategy for mobile and multimedia platforms to explore new application domains. Particularly, He has been involved in the European project ANGEL on Remote Patient Monitoring involving several Philips divisions. Laurent was responsible of the definition and launch at Philips Consumer Electronics of the very first GSM handsets product line in 1994.
Laurent worked with VLSI Technology Inc. as Marketing Manager Europe for VLSI solutions addressing cellular and wireless markets, he promoted and sold the very first one chip solution for GSM handset. Laurent worked as well with TRT as Network Management Systems Product Manager where he deployed the first SW based platfom to improve the quality of Service of access and cellular networks. He started his career with Matra Communications in 1990 as GSM product manager.
Globally, Laurent has more than twenty years of experience in Mobile communications from Network infrastructure to handheld terminals and semiconductors.
Laurent holds a TRIUM Executive M.B.A. from New-York University Stern School of Business, H.E.C. Paris and L.S.E. London, a M.Sc. in Industrial Marketing & Operations Management from Lyon Business Shool (E.M. Lyon) and a Msc. in Electronics Engineering from Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (E.C.E.) Paris.
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