SAN DIEGO, November 17, 2008 – Stantum Technologies (www.stantum.com), a pioneer developer of multi-touch sensing technology, today announced the appointment of Robert Pelissier to the newly created position of vice president of sales, marketing and business development. He reports to Etienne Paillard, who recently became chief executive officer.
Pelissier brings to Stantum a 25-year background in business development, sales, executive management, and entrepreneurship. His appointment coincides with the fast-paced growth of Stantum’s OEM business unit, established in early 2008 in response to a growing demand for the company’s patented multi-touch solutions. The OEM unit markets Stantum’s technology to consumer electronics and various other business areas, enabling manufacturers and third-party system integrators to design innovative multi-touch interfaces for their own products, thus simplifying the development process and considerably shortening the product’s time-to-market.
“Robert Pelissier knows the industry, the technology and the markets,” said Paillard. “In this new position, he’ll work with Stantum customers to provide them with tailor-made, integrated and cost-effective multi-touch solutions – by way of components or licenses – that precisely fit their individual needs.”
Before joining Stantum, Pelissier founded and was CEO of ESO Technologies, an embedded software start-up. Previously, he held sales, business development, and management positions at various high-tech companies, including Texas Instruments, Thalès, and Force Computers. He is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines in France and ESC[
] Paris.
Pelissier will play a major role in helping Stantum achieve its aim of becoming the major stakeholder in tomorrow’s man-machine interface industry, making the way that people interact with their working tools, computers or other electronic devices more intuitive, playful and reliable. Stantum’s technology portfolio offers true multi-touch interfaces that let users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers/nails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen.
About Stantum Technologies
Stantum Technologies (formerly JazzMutant) has pioneered multi-touch technologies since its founding in 2002 by Guillaume Largillier and Pascal Joguet. The following year, it developed the world’s first multi-touch screen that could track an unlimited number of fingers at once and in 2005 launched Lemur, the first multi-touch product available on the market. Today, Stantum’s technology portfolio and product offerings cover every aspect of multi-touch interaction, including sensor design, multi-touch controllers, intellectual property cores, software integration, and application programming interfaces. Stantum’s world headquarters is in Bordeaux, France, and the U.S. accounts for about one-third of the company’s total sales.
