Please join us for a special guest lecture featuring Hughes Metras, CEA-LETI, France, VP, Strategic Partnerships, North America as he discusses bridging the gaps to take academic research to the production floor.

Bio: Hughes Metras is VP in charge of Strategic Partnerships in North America for CEA-LETI, a major European R&D lab with 200 and 300 mm facilities in Grenoble France.  Previously, Hughes was VP of Marketing and Sales, in charge of business development and strategic planning. He coordinated Leti's sales and marketing teams in the field of  semiconductors (advanced CMOS as well as heterogenous integration), imaging and photonics, biomedical technologies as well as telecommunications. Over the past several years, Mr. Metras has been involved in major French initiatives with key industrial players for the emergence of new programs in microelectronics, addressing new societal challenges such as power conversion for industrial, automotive and PV applications, and solid state lighting, as well as sensor technologies for healthcare and environmental issues. He has also been involved in the European technology platform EPOSS (smart system integration) where he coordinated the working group on key technologies and was a member of the executive committee. Hughes benefits from a technical background in physics engineering and holds an MBA from the University of Miami (FL). After four years spent in Leti’s marketing office, where he contributed to the strategic analysis of new market opportunities in the fields of microsensors, smart tags and smart devices and four years spent as manager of the same team, Hughes joined the program staff of CEA-LETI in 2003, where he set up new initiatives in the field of smart cards, RFID and wireless sensor networks.