Dr. Florent Thibault is president and CEO of QiOVA (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France). Before joining QiOVA, Florent worked as Product Line Manager of Industrial Picosecond Lasers lines for Coherent in Germany, where he had global ownership of product lines like HyperRapid NX or Rapid NX. He also worked for Teem Photonics (Grenoble, France), a passively Q-switched laser business, where held various management roles including applications and business development. Florent holds a PhD in laser and material sciences from University Paris XI, France and a MsEng degree in Photonics from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School (IOGS), Palaiseau (92), France.
