The team

Laurent Maniscalco, CEO. Prior to joining Kineo CAM, he was a worldwide market development manager leading an $85 million business line of Motorola SCG for four years. He spent over 15 years developing and managing international sales and marketing for start-up activities. During his entire career he has successfully driven multicultural teams (Americas, EMEA, ASIA PAC) for hi-tech products. Mainly software-oriented he gained a strong knowledge of hardware computing servers and workstations market as sales manager at Silicon Graphics Inc. from 1994 to 1996. Laurent is a graduated engineer from L'École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique and has a post-graduate Master in Management and Administration specialized in innovation from L'École Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse.

Jean-Paul Laumond, Scientific advisor and co-founder. Research director at LAAS-CNRS, he received the M.S. degree in Mathematics, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse in 1976, 1984 and 1989 respectively. Teacher in Mathematics he joined the CNRS in 1985. In Fall 1990 he was an invited senior scientist from Stanford University. He was a member of the French Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the board of the ACI Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles. From 1992 to 1995 he had been coordinator of two European Esprit projects PROMotion (Planning RObot Motion, 1992-1995) and MOLOG (Motion for Logistics, 1999 - 2002), both dedicated to robot motion planning technology. He teaches Robotics at ENSTA and at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has edited three books and has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences in Computer Science, Automatic Control and Robotics.

Etienne Ferré, CTO. Joining Kineo CAM at the beginning of the adventure, he has rapidly demonstrated exceptional skills in software architecture and algorithmic development. He is the author of several technical papers in automatic path planning techniques. In 2003, he was promoted to the position of CTO. Etienne graduated from the respected Ecole Polytechnique (X96) and did his applicative school at L'École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées.