| Bruno Dussert-Vidalet with OLED panels |
Bruno Dussert-Vidalet, Astron-Fiamm’s CEO, started the journey toward his present position at an electronics school in Paris (ISEP) with a specialisation in image processing. After 4 years’ work in the defence industry he migrated to the automotive industry. His first position was to manage innovation for Philips car system in Rambouillet for Renault as specific customer. Mergers and acquisitions led him to work for Siemens VDO and to create with three other managers a software site in Sofia Antipolis dedicated to the new generation of car navigation for BMW (introduced in the BMW 5er).
During this period he earned an executive MBA at HEC in Paris. Then the Fiamm group, a Tier 1 supplier of horns, antennas and batteries, asked him to manage innovation for them. He held this position for 5 years, based in Italy. In 2007 he created Astron Fiamm with Alessandro Dolcetta. The clear and unique objective was to develop OLED technology for the transportation industry in all related aspects: performances, technology roadmap, industrial tools and application engineering.
From 2007, He is now managing the operations of Astron Fiamm creating a general lighting brand BLACKBODY, focusing a team on OLED technology.
I sat down with Bruno to get his thoughts and comments:
DVN: Bruno, could you present your company?
Bruno Dussert-Vidalet: My company based in Toulon, France, has one of the largest and first OLED production tool installed in Europe. We are completely dedicated to the transportation industry with a special focus on the automotive market. Our vision is to provide tailor made OLED services to our customers. In order to serve this vision we have set industry records in terms of red and amber OLED performances and in terms of flexibility and diversity management.
A large part of my team is coming from the automotive industry and has the know how to introduce innovation on large systems.