The DVN team are happy to have welcomed three new senior consultants to our team from January 2024. Eric Blusseau brings his great knowledge about lighting regulations; Hans Schwabe his knowledge in light source technology, and Franco Marcori his knowledge in rear lighting and lamp development. That’s three new consultants, from three different countries—France, Italy, and Germany—in three different lighting domains. A lot of benefit for our team and, thus, to the DVN community!
Here we present their background and expertise so you can see the high level of these experts working to serve you:
Hans Schwabe
Hans studied and graduated in electronic engineering and business administration in Berlin and Munich in 1987. He has worked over 30 years in the lighting business, after working initially for four years as a strategic consultant for Siemens. He started with Osram as a Senior Product Manager for vehicle lighting, responsible for HID and halogen light sources from 1991 to 1997. From 1997-2001 he held managerial roles with increasing responsibilities in R&D, product management, and sales & marketing in the special industrial lighting business unit. From 2002-2005 he was the Managing Director of Osram Taiwan, responsible for all lighting business in that country. From 2005 to 2008 he managed the global Display Optic business unit in Berlin, including plant operations and sales. In 2009 he successfully merged the global vehicle lighting and display optic business units into the Specialty Lighting Unit, and was appointed Executive Vice President and CEO SP. From 2018 on, he focused on the vehicle lighting business unit as CEO, with global responsibility including the supervisory role for the JV with Continental. In 2023 he handed over his global responsibility to his successor Adam Wu, and stepped out of Osram to concentrate his further activities on executive and strategic consulting in lighting.
Franco Marcori
Franco graduated in electronic engineering in 1996, developing a thesis on the design of diffractive optics for partially-coherent light at Seima Italiana (Tolmezzo, Italy), which later became part of Marelli Automotive Lighting. He has worked in the vehicle lighting business for 20 years, holding various managerial roles of increasing responsibility from optical engineering to electronic design, from innovation and technical marketing to applied research. In 2012 became Technical Director of CRP, a research centre owned by AL and the regional government, and his work centred on applied research in opto-electronics and plastics. From 2004 to 2012 he was the company’s regulatory manager for rear lamps, participating in the activities of CUNA (Commissione Tecnica di Unificazione nell’Autoveicolo, the Technical Commission for Unification in the Automotive Industry) and GTB, tasks he supported also in the following four years as a consultant.
From 2016 to 2022 he gained important experience outside the automotive sector as Director of Operations and R&D in the lighting business line of Gewiss in Cenate Sotto (Bergamo, Italy), a company specialized in electrotechnical solutions and products for industrial, tertiary, and residential applications.
From May 2022 to December 2023, he returned to the automotive design as Senior R&D Manager at Olsa in Rivoli (Turin, Italy), responsible for all product development activities of Magna Lighting on rear lamps in Europe.
Eric Blusseau
Eric made most of his career at Valeo Lighting. He spent more than 30 years in Optics and Regulations.
He started in research and developments at Bobigny for 13 years in the development of complex shape reflectors and elliptic modules. He was a key player in the development of HID lights in the ’90s, and was
appointed optical expert in 1997 and senior expert in 2000. In 2001, he moved to Angers to create the Optical Development Department. His work entailed hiring and training optical engineers; implementing design and simulation tools; creating the 25-metre dark room and the optical laboratory, and managing the approval of new lamps.
In 2009, he took responsibility for the regulation and approval department of Valeo Lighting. He created and managed the regulation network inside Valeo Lighting Systems with one Regulation Manager in each development centre: Angers, France; Martos, Spain; Le Hainault, Belgium; Seymour, Indiana, USA; Wuhan, Foshan, China; Pianezza, Italy; São Paolo, Brazil; Queretaro, Mexico; Chennai, India; and Isehara, Japan.
He was a French Delegation Expert at GTB, and a member of the GTB delegation at GRE. In 2017, he was appointed Chair of the GTB Front Lighting Working Group. Along all his career, he was inventor or co-inventor of 48 patents.