Bruno Maisonnier

CEO and founder of Aldebaran Robotics, the 1st European company specialized in design and sales of programmable humanoid robots. Graduated from Polytechnique and Telecom Paris, his career has followed two major business lines: IT and management of banks. He first worked for 10 years as IT manager of various banks and high tech companies, till being DP manager of a bank, where he leaded multi-partners projects. He then, became successful CEO of international financial companies (Brazil, Poland and Portugal) improving thus his multicultural management skills. Fascinated by robotics for years, he has closely followed this market and its evolutions for the last 25 years, waiting for the right time to launch his company and become one of the pioneers of this new industry. In 2005, he decided to leave the banking activity to launch an incommensurable adventure: the design of a humanoid robot. Aldebaran Robotics was born, a young start up gathering a handful of engineers and PhDs. Within 8 years, the Bruno Maisonnier‘s crazy project became a strong company with more than 450 employees. Their first robot, Nao, is already commercialized all around the world as a research platform for prestigious universities (Carnegie Melon, Berlin University...), first step before retail market in few years. To help promoting robotics in France, Bruno Maisonnier has supported the creation of a French cluster, Cap Robotique, which gathers the main players in the area, academics as well as SMEs. @brunomaisonnier