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Corporate profile
The Enterprise has been founded, back in 1985, to be the leader of
the nascent "Industry of Microelectronics
Design", a hardly understood market emerging between the Service
sector and the Fabrication sector of Integrated Circuits.
The company’s Capital funding amounts to € 1,295,120. Its major shareholders are the founders' families and numerous managers and employees, but the company has performed its IPO on the OTC of EuroNext in March 2003 and the stock has been transferred onto the regulated market of Alternext in April 2007 just before Euronext merged with the NYSE. The listing reference on EuroNext is ALDOL.
As a principle, the DOLPHIN Group owns 100 % of its subsidiaries, now counting DOLPHIN Integration GmbH in Duisburg, Germany, DOLPHIN Integration Inc. in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and SCI DOLPHIN in Grenoble, France. The two foreign subsidiaries correspond to a focus on market segments and design competencies which could only be found locally.
Profitability has remained healthy throughout the semiconductor cycles, debt is minimal and cash-flow is tightly managed, as proven by the Sales Turnover enabled around 12 M€. A daring innovative drive coupled with a unique marketing savvy has enabled a quarter of century of exciting product developments with enough prudence to never having to face a lay-off of personnel.
Employees now number about 170, resulting from a steady growth. They originate from all parts of the world, adding a special openness to the corporate culture: from China, Japan, the USA, Maghreb, Russia, as well as from overseas islands…
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Louis ZANGARA, Jean-François POLLET & Agnès VENET. |
The Board of Directors is comprised of two of the founders, now Chief Officers, CIO for Innovation and CTO for Technical Orientation, in addition to the Executive Chairman, and of four independent directors of international stature:
- Professor Günter ZIMMER, founder and former Head of the Fraunhofer Institute IMS in Duisburg
- GianCarlo ZANNI, former Vice-President of sales for Thomson Microelectronics then Apple-Europe, and as such former Director of ARM Holdings,
- Bernard CHAPELET, Professor of Marketing at the Grenoble School of Business Management, and
- Viviane NEITER, co-chairperson of the Association for the Promotion of Individual Shareholders (APAI).
Its Scientific Committee, also international, includes:
- Dr. Andrew RICHARDSON of the University of Lancaster (UK)
- Dr. George GIELEN of IMEC (Belgium), Dr. Horst-Lothar Fiedler of Gerhardt Mercator University in Duisburg (Germany)
- Dr. Valentino LIBERALI of the University of Pavia (Italia)
- Dr. Christian ENZ, Vice President of the CSEM in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and
- Dr. Yvon SAVARIA, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal (Québec).
The founders’ team is sturdy:
Chairman Michel Depeyrot, Supelec (Paris, 1963) and Stanford PhD (1968), with a five year managerial experience at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Massachusetts in the seventies, then VP of IC Development at Thomson Microelectronics;
the Chief Officers' pair of CIO Jean-François Pollet and COO Louis Zangara, both formerly at Thomson Microelectronics, now manage respectively Innovation Processes and for Project Development, either as internal IP or as customer consulting. |
They share an entrepreneurial experience of about twenty-five years together, but have proven their capability to assimilate newcomers, especially experienced Marketing Managers for high-tech products:
- Lucille ENGELS, Business Manager for the activity HARMONIE of SoC Integration and the Fabless supply of custom circuits, centered on the ROCK 'N ROLL line of 8 and 16 bit Microprocessors 8051/251, up to the APS-32, for mixed peripheral Control and Signal Processing, promoted by Pauline BUTTIN,
this Unit is overseen by Jean-François POLLET, the CIO, as it provides an internal experience of customers' concerns.
- Gilles DEPEYROT, Business Manager for the activity of "Missing EDA Links" MEDAL™ including Solutions for layout and for the
celebrated SMASH™ line of simulation, promoted by Lucile REY DE NARDO,
with Lars VOSSKÄMPER for the SAXO line of MEMS modeling and their associated EDA, in the German subsidiary of Duisburg,
this Unit is overseen by Louis ZANGARA, the CTO, as it secures the lead-performance with state-of-the-art solutions, (deplacement paragraphe)
while the central offering of Silicon IP, organized in two Growth Units, is overseen by Agnès VENET, the CFO, to ensure the managerial support for uncompromising quality with top productivity:
- Audrey ABBA, Business Manager for the activity SYMPHONIE of libraries including the line of "Retargetable Array Generators", RAGTime RAMs and ROMs, and the stems of standard cells SESAME, forerunner of Reduced Cell Stem Libraries, promoted by Matthias BORCIER,
- Christophe GAILLARD, Business Manager for the JAZZ offering of components for high resolution processing for mixed signals at Audio frequencies, all promoted by Marie MAUREL
with Yves GAGNON for the product line PRELUDE of embedded Power Management Units, in the Canadian subsidiary in Montreal.
Major linguistic areas are endowed with a regional sales manager and sales coordinators:
Frédéric RENOUX, with Chia-Lin LEE for Chinese-speaking Asia and Li-Lin YANG for Taiwan, Caixia CHE for Northern China, Xiaoyan LI for Central China, and Ying ZHAO for Southern China and Singapore, Sayaka KAN for Japan, Na-rae JUNG for Southern Korea and Christopher REMY for the British Isles and Maria LOUSTALOT-FOREST for Northern Europe.
Thierry DEPEYROT, with Yanzhou WANG for the Center of the United States, Amel CHENNOUFI for the North of the United States and Canada and Romain NEDEY for Southern States, Nirupama NAVLE for the Benelux and the Indian sub-continent, Delphine SIMIAND for Southern Europe and Israel, and Aline PERRIN for German-speaking Europe.
Thierry VILLARD, directly processes the placement of consultants in delegation, manages the resource coordination for the adequate supply and nurturing of Skills and Crafts, and edits "Trait d'Union", the internal monthly news,
while Thierry CAPPELLE addresses sales of Services for SoC Integration and of Custom Fabless Products (CFP), manages the FAE supply on behalf of the diverse sales teams, and edits "Flippers", the corporate publication of breakthrough innovations.
Finally the team cohesiveness is enhanced by the Managers for Human Resources, Agnès CHAPEL, who oversees the workings of corporate committees.
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