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R&D business management & Innovation management PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES : - since September 2013: NXP Corporate CTO Office, Fellow and Technology Manager - 2009- 2013 : Senior Director of a RF product development center at NXP Semiconductors, Caen - 2004-2009 : General Manager of the RF Innovation Center of Philips Semiconductors - 1998-2004 : Development Service Manager of the RF Competence Center of Philips Semiconductors - 1993-1998 : Group Leader at Philips Semiconductors - 1984-1993 : Research Engineer at Philips Research France (LEP at Limeil-Brévannes) Specialties: - Development of produts in RF/microwave domains using hybrid and integrated solutions. Knows packaging and assembly technologies (flip-chip, BGAs). Skills in RF testing and design methods. General experience : - Product creation, development and industrialisation - Customer relationships, technical and innovation management, coaching, project definition and drive, department and team lead - 34 patents filed, more than 70 technical IEEE publications and international conferences, Invited speaker and session chairman in few conferences - Fluent in English -

Corporate CTO Office , Fellow and Technology Manager @ Technilogy strategy, Next businesses, IoT, 5G From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) RF R&D Manager @ Develop and release RF products for various applications like Cellular and Point to Point Base Station systems, Microwave satellite receivers, RF Transceivers for Automotive From January 2009 to August 2013 (4 years 8 months) RF Innovation Center General Manager @ - Drive analog / RF technologies (processes, testing, methodologies, assembly) - Manage advanced concept group and design group - Manage RF ASICs / ASSP's Development , applications and industrialisation - Contribute to research programme definition - main involvement are in Wireless communications and microwave From January 2004 to January 2009 (5 years 1 month) Sector Manager RF ASICs @ - Manage RF ASIC product developments and business for wireless communications customers - Group of 50 people mkt, design, evaluation, qualification and industrialisation From April 1998 to January 2004 (5 years 10 months) Analog Design group Leader @ Design Group Leader for Read/Write amplifiers for Hard Disk Drives From July 1993 to January 1998 (4 years 7 months) Research Engineer @ Research Engineer at Philips Research in Paris (LEP-Limeil) in Microwave and Millimeter wave areas. From September 1984 to July 1993 (8 years 11 months)

PhD Thesis, Microelectronics, microwave @ Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I) From 1981 to 1984 Authorized to Supervise PhD's, HDR obtained in 2001, microwave, RF, electronics @ University of Lille Patrice Gamand is skilled in: RF and Microwave, People Management, Self Driven, Negotiation, Technical Management, CMOS, BiCMOS, RF, Analog, GAAS, Microwave, Coaching, Design Methodology, Research, Packaging