Mr. Thibaud is Senior Vice President of Mercury’s Advanced Computing Solutions (ACS) group, responsible for sales, product engineering, operations, and other general management duties since July 2007. ACS provides specialized, high-performance computing systems to top-tier OEMs in the semiconductor, communications, seismic, medical imaging, and defense markets. In addition, Mr. Thibaud manages the company’s Visualization Sciences Group, and is the global European managing director and president of Mercury’s French, UK, and Netherlands subsidiaries.
Prior to his position with ACS, Mr. Thibaud managed the company’s Defense Business Unit and its worldwide Imaging and Visualization Solutions (IVS) group. Before joining Mercury in 1995, Mr. Thibaud was technical director and account manager for Horizon Technologies, where he specialized in the development of European business for digital signal processing (DSP) products. Previously, at ONERA, the French National Research Center for Aerospace, Mr. Thibaud spent several years managing research and development of DSP applications in medical and defense electronics, and was the engineering manager for multiprocessor systems that were used for tracking and surveillance radar. Mr. Thibaud started his career with CHU Lille hospital's center for medical signal processing research.
Mr. Thibaud graduated from the Hautes Etudes Industrielles in Lille, France, with a degree in Information Technology. He also earned a D.E.A. (DiplÔme d'Etudes Approfondies) in signal and image processing. |