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Bernard Dion

Vice-President Strategy and Technology

Experience

In the fall of 1999, Bernard Dion co-founded Esterel Technologies and has since been in charge of both product engineering and the development of product methodologies of use.

Prior to Esterel Technologies, Mr. Dion was part of the Simulog Group beginning in 1993, where he began as the Technical Director of Connexite, a subsidiary devoted to the development of programming systems for the Fortran language. In 1995, he joined Simulog as Deputy CEO, developing a specific branch of the company with software engineering expertise for scientific and technical computing. In 1997, he became Simulog's Senior Executive Vice-President, remaining in that position until 2000.

In 1984, in a partnership between INRIA, Bull and Thomson, Mr. Dion created CERICS, a graduate school in software engineering, which was then taken as a model for what are now "Mastères" in the French educational system of "Grandes Ecoles".

Between 1981 and 1983, he was the Head of the System Software Department at Thomson Multimedia. His team was in charge of developing all basic software for the generation of the TO7, MO5, TO9 machines intended for use by individual consumers, which was at that time a new concept, bringing user-friendly multimedia machines at very low prices.

Between 1979 and 1981, Mr. Dion was a member of the Ada language design team at Bull Corporate Research Center.

Between 1975 and 1978, he was a Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin, teaching graduate courses on algorithms and optimization, and conducting research on programming languages and automata.

Education

1978: Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, USA, 1978

1975: MSc in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1974: Engineering degree, Ecole Centrale de Lyon