Frederic Vacher — CEO

Frederic graduated as a mechanical engineer, started is career on the Rafale plane prototype of Dassault Aviation, worked for Airbus group CAD computer software division, 5 years in Japan, then joined Dassault Systèmes in 1998 to lead the partnership & alliances programs, then corporate development and strategy. Frédéric lived the beginnings of the internet and follows its progression until then, to develop websites before any editor by coding directly in HTML, and to realize in 1995 one of the very first 3D websites for an art gallery. This project was very pioneering for the time, 3D technologies on the web were emerging, in the late 90’ he joined Dassault Systèmes to continue his journey in the 3D virtual world, in 1999 he created a joint venture with Franck Gehry, to establish a new software suite, Digital Project, for architecture and construction based on BIM. Fred is now Head of Innovation and founded the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab in 2015, an open innovation lab accelerating disruptive innovations that give a strong positive impact to the society. To think big, he designed this initiative to be very inclusive, open and collaborative through communities and mentoring. Connecting people, sharing know how and knowledge on a cloud platform makes it possible, and scalable. All twenty thousand employees are now connected. It creates teams that are a group of people that works together with common purpose, not just a group of people assigned to work on the same project. This Lab is now globally deployed with a strong network of incubator partners and 5 main hubs in Paris, Boston, Pune, Munich and Shanghai coming soon. Many innovations have already emerged, from 3D printing of organs to autonomous solar drones, from surgery planning to stent implant simulation...Those innovations aim to bring a strong positive impact to the society and humanity. Fred is also HEC Challenge+ Jury member and startup mentor.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS innovator with a strong focus on 3D technologies and open innovation.

Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Experience: 33 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Innovation
Corporate Strategy
Business Development
Marketing Strategy
Strategic Partnerships
Medical Education
Digital Innovation
Technical Support
Marketing
Software Engineering

Career Highlights

Pioneered one of the first 3D websites in 1995.
Founded the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab for open innovation.
Led strategic partnerships at Dassault Systèmes.

Work Experience

Paris Region

Board Of Advisors (6 yrs 5 mos)

HEC Paris

HEC Challenge+ Jury (6 yrs 9 mos)

Dassault Systèmes

Head of Innovation - 3DEXPERIENCE Lab (11 yrs 2 mos)

Director Strategy Marketing (3 yrs)

Director Alliance and Partnership Programs (14 yrs)

iLUMENS

Advisory Board Member (6 yrs 8 mos)

Cap Digital

Board Member (5 yrs 8 mos)

EADS MatraDatavision

Tech support manager (2 yrs)

Marketing and PreSales support (5 yrs)

Matra Datavision

Software engineer (6 mos)

Dassault Aviation

Software engineer (6 mos)

Education

Diplôme d'ingénieur at Centrale Lyon ENISE

Frederic Vacher

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France33 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered one of the first 3D websites in 1995.
Founded the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab for open innovation.
Led strategic partnerships at Dassault Systèmes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS innovator with a strong focus on 3D technologies and open innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

InnovationCorporate StrategyBusiness DevelopmentMarketing StrategyStrategic PartnershipsMedical EducationDigital InnovationTechnical SupportMarketingSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Open innovationSocial enterprise3DExperienceMentoringStartup developmentProspective strategyCommunication mediaSocial Community platformSoftware partnership programAlliance managementTechnology partnershipsScientific advisingMedical trainingDigital technologiesStrategic consulting

About

Experience

Paris region

Board Of Advisors

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Hec paris

HEC Challenge+ Jury

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos · Jouy-en-Josas, Île-de-France, France

Dassault systèmes

3 roles

Head of Innovation - 3DEXPERIENCE Lab

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

Corporate strategy, director strategy innovation. Empowering open innovation through social and collaborative disruptive projects, leveraging digital continuity and 3DExperience.Our new open innovation laboratory embraces the concept of the social enterprise and draws upon our long history of expertise in virtual technologies to open new perspectives of innovation for a more sustainable world.
Head of 3DEXPERIENCELab.
The 3DEXPERIENCE Lab shapes a new framework of open innovation that merges collective intelligence with a cross-collaborative approach to foster entrepreneurship and bring new experiences to life, as well as to strengthen society´s future of creation.
Responsible of the new Accelerator Program for Startups : As part of the overall 3DEXPERIENCE Lab initiative, Dassault Systèmes´ accelerator program for startups will help facilitate and nurture disruptive product innovation with a dedicated mentoring expert program.
Learn more : http://3dexperiencelab.3ds.com/en/

Corporate strategyOpen innovationSocial enterprise3DExperienceMentoringInnovation+1

Director Strategy Marketing

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs

In charge of prospective strategy for the group and marketing and communication media for new audiences.Part of corporate strategy, Frederic is setting the new trends and experiencing 3D as a new media.
Make the 3D Experience and Social Community platform available for all, for new usages linking education, sciences, technology and society.
Frederic is also in charge of the partner online business platform for the group, leveraging new way of interacting and doing online social business.

Prospective strategyMarketingCommunication media3D ExperienceSocial Community platformMarketing Strategy+1

Director Alliance and Partnership Programs

Jan 1998 – Jan 2012 · 14 yrs

Frédéric Vacher joined Dassault Systèmes in 1988 to define and manage the Software partnership program. This development program leverages the DS development environment common to all V5PLM brands, and today gathers together more than 150 companies that are leaders in their markets and their technology, in all branches of industry.
Extended to all DS brands the program delivered more than 500 complemenry products to market.
Frederic was then responsible for all alliances at DS including Software, Technology and Services, on a worldwide basis.

Software partnership programAlliance managementTechnology partnershipsStrategic PartnershipsBusiness Development

Ilumens

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2012 – Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Scientific adviser of Paris-Descartes iLUMENS, a Medical Teaching University Laboratory based on Digital Technologies and Simulations, multidisciplinary and targeting medical training, specialized training and continuing education, proposed at the University of Paris-Descartes and its School of Medicine.

Cap digital

Board Member

Jan 2011 – Sep 2016 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Representing 3DS in the the Board of Directors which is composed of 36 administrators, provide strategic consulting and guidance to Cap Digital, the digital French cluster an think tank.

Scientific advisingMedical trainingDigital technologiesMedical EducationDigital Innovation

Eads matradatavision

2 roles

Tech support manager

Promoted

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

Strategic consultingDigital cluster managementStrategic PartnershipsBusiness Development

Marketing and PreSales support

Jan 1993 – Jan 1998 · 5 yrs

After graduating in mechanical engineering, Frédéric Vacher began his career in 1993 with EADS Matra Datavision, a software editor in the field of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Mr. Vacher held successive positions, both at the company’s headquarters and in its Japanese subsidiary, in technical support and marketing activities.