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Frédéric Lasnier
Title: President&Chief Executive Officer
Bio: After a quick passage in a national marketing service company, Frederic Lasnier founded Pentalog with four colleagues, academics like himself. During a period of economic stagnation (in 1993).
In 1995, he decided to open permanently the capital of Pentalog to the participation of his employees. This participation now has reached 56%. It was a political vision that he shared with the founding members. Starting from 1997, Pentalog exported their first services outside of France. The percentage of foreign activities subsequently reached 60% in 2006.
In 1999, as part of a large software project (10 000 man-days in J2EE), he made his first trip to Romania and laid the foundation for the Pentalog policy of European "low cost". In 2005, he initiated the creation of BPO services (Business Process Outsourcing) and offered a New Business Model to Pentalog High Tech. In 2006, with the help of Ausy, one of the 5 most important players in the French market of outsourced R&D services, he created Pentalog Technology, a joint venture between Ausy and Pentalog, co-owned equally by the two partners. The Joint Venture aims to provide low cost but high quality R & D to global players. Pentalog took operational control of this alliance.
In 2008, Pentalog Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the group was created.
In 2009, Frederic created Pentalog Vietnam.
In all these areas, the management is provided from Orleans and it is here where 70% of the consolidated value is held.
Frederic is the father of the adaptation of the "design to cost" for intellectual services in France.
Aymeric Libeau
Title: CIO - Vice President Infrastructure & R&D
Bio: The management of infrastructure and R&D Aymeric is supervising includes all the technical aspects (for the company as well as for our customers), whether they are related to corporate needs, resources to complete a project, R&D activities or quality control.
Aymeric is the one who defines the strategy of development of our infrastructure and information system.
This former peacekeeper has led several international operations, in particular in Eastern Europe. He remains operational for some of our customers, whether as an expert in architecture, a project director or consultant in the choice of technologies.

Monica Jiman
Title: Deputy CEO
Bio: Monica graduated in Marketing and Production from the University of Orleans, and joined Pentalog as a trainee.
She then became the Manager of the branch office in Bucharest, today employing 50 people in the field of outsourced software development on the offshore as well as local market in Romania.
In May 2009 she became Chief Operational Officer. Monica is now in charge of operations in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, France and Germany, involving over 300 employees. She manages sales and business lines, the creation of new branch offices, recruitment, human resources and the responsibility of contractual operations.
Monica has been Pentalog's Deputy CEO (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) since August 2011. She is in charge of operational management, including the management of production and production structures, financial and reporting management, administration and development of existing partnerships, supervision of the information systems, technical management and … the incubator.
Alexandra Mondanel
Title: International Operations Officer
Bio: After a 4-month internship within the Pentalog Orleans Team, Alexandra was recruited to develop the company's international activities. She holds a postgraduate degree in International Business and foreign languages and she is European to the core: her mother is German and her father is French; she attended a British University, and used to work for the German subsidiary of a French company before joining Pentalog in 2005. Her ability to speak four languages will be determining to find partners all accross Europe.

Sophie Lelarge
Title: WW Sales and BL Director
Bio: Sophie is the group's Sales Director and manages the 3 Business Lines: Information Systems, Embedded Systems and BPO.
She ensures the dialogue with consultants and project managers, as well as the monitoring of our commitments, in coordination with the project managers.



Pierre Peutin
Title: Head of Business Line for Information Systems
Bio: Pierre entered Pentalog as a developer, in 1999. He has worked on web and client/servers projects, on missions of medium and long duration in both France and Belgium. After several years as a developer, Pierre oriented himself towards Business Intelligence by participating in various reporting projects for customers like PSA Peugeot Citroën, Loxam or the ACTICALL group. Later, Pierre became Project Leader for specific application developments, managing teams of 1 to 7 people based in France and offshore for Pentalog. Pierre then naturally served as an offshore Project Director before taking on the responsibility of the Business Line for Information Systems.
Pierre is presently responsible for writing business proposals, monitoring existing customers, commitment control vis-à-vis our customers on projects, compliance with Pentalog quality system procedures and control and optimization of expenses for the Business Line.
Mickaël Hiver
Title: Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO
Bio: Mickaël entered Pentalog as a Network Administrator in February 1997 with the aim to gain global understanding of information technology in order to assist and guide users in meeting their real needs. For 8 years he was an in-house producer for Pentalog clients. With his acquired experience, Mickaël progressively left production to become first a Project Manager, then Project Director and finally the Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO.
Mickaël is a hands-on and open person, with an acute sense of organization and priorities. Through his assistance and counseling he gives his clients and prospective clients the opportunity to focus calmly on their actual core business.
Eric Gouin
Title: Administrator
Bio: Eric graduated from a renown school of Physics and Chemistry in Paris. While he was a student he used to develop websites related to his student activities.
After two research internships within a French company producing mobile phone components in the Sophia-Antipolis Technopole, he joined the IT world in which he held several key positions.
He now is a finance and management control consultant.

Aleth Delcenserie
Title: Quality Manager
Bio: Associate-founder of Pentalog and board member, Aleth Delcenserie first evolved in the graphics department of the company. Gifted with a strong sense of organization and a taste for detail, she conducted with rigorous methodology publishing projects and electronic media for over ten years, and launched the Pentalog BPO-DTP sector at the end of 2005.
From September 2007, Aleth has been responsible for the definition and for the implementation of the Pentalog Quality Policy, leading to the ISO 9001:2008 certification of the group, on December 24, 2008.
As the Director of Quality Control, Aleth is now based in Moldova since 1 January 2009, where she now shares her time between coaching project managers in implementing effectiveness control and the progress of Pentalog Quality.
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An electric power network breaks down into the following components:
- Energy production: nuclear power stations, hydraulic power stations, thermal power stations, wind farms, solar farms
- Transport: the transport of electricity includes very high voltage, high voltage, medium voltage and low voltage (LV)
- Distribution: the selling of electricity to users/consumers
- Services provided to users/consumers (but also to producers): the last element of the “Smart Grid” which should provide a better follow-up of consumption trends in order to optimize them.

A “smart” network is a communicating network (in both directions: producers towards consumers, including transport) which offers new services (optimizing production/consumption, self-regulations, supervision etc.). This “Smart Grid” allows to solve certain network management problems like consumption peaks, the request to suppress consumption in case of underproduction, the fact that renewable energies are intermittent. It also provides benefits like follow-up automation, the possibility to set up a pricing system based on real consumption, maintenance cost reduction (avoiding useless trips with the electric company vans).
According to Jean-Marie Bernard (ErDF – the French power distribution network) and Olivier Jehgl (EDF – the leading French electricity producer), who spoke during the conference on the energy/telecom convergence organized by ASPROM on 06-07/04/2011, the production and transport to the Low Voltage transforming station are already “smart”. But, just like with the local telecom loop, it is the last kilometres which are not “smart”. In fact, in order to have a “smart” network, the 35 million French homes need to be equipped with a new intelligent meter, which is capable of quickly interacting and communicating information as well as receiving orders or pricing information. This intelligent meter is called LINKY. It contains an electric meter connected to a monitoring module that communicates in CPL (only with ErDF), a USB port on its front side, and can be equipped with an additional communication module (radio frequency, GPRS etc.). I said that it “can be equipped”, as for the time being the dedicated slot remains empty. Young start-ups, as well as major companies are ready to fill this gap and thus offer services which are mainly related to consumption monitoring and optimization. This should really set going the “smart home” market (home automation 2.0).

In short, we are technologically ready.
A test involving 300,000 LINKY meters is currently being carried out in Lyon and Tours. This new Machine to Machine (M2M) network has transmitted the first issues: a fault on the connection between the meter and the LV station has been communicated by the meter, which allowed to perform a targeted and quick action.
ErDF is waiting for the “go-ahead signal” from the public authorities so that it may deploy the 34 million LINKY meters by the end of 2018, at a rate of 30-35,000 meters a day.
Why the public authorities? Because the Smart Grid requires support from the public authorities and (EU) institutions. As the necessary investment is substantial, it can be made possible only if it is imposed through laws/regulations. The EU demands that the European power network become “Smart Grid” by 2018.
Public authority is equivalent to political decision. The latter may take a great deal of time as the government must find the most suitable moment between the current events and the presidential elections, in order to take full advantage of the impact of this decision.

This is what has triggered my question: Will our infrastructure be ready for 2018?

Posted on Thu., 14 Apr. 2011 16:35 by Mickaël HIVER (400 day(s) old)
Categories: Embedded, Innovation and strategy
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