SEMICON Europa 2016

Claude Florin
CEO
Fastree3D SA


Claude Florin is a Venture Partner at Polytech Ventures an early-stage fund and principal at Venture Concept providing interim management and investment advisory services . He is President of A3 Angels, a business angel club at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology providing seed investment and supporting a portfolio of 30 start-up companies. He launched investor education for 200 business angels at the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation.
Experience:
2008-2015 Partner Venture Concept and President A3 Angels. Investor and advisor in Lemoptix (MEMS microprojectors), Antlia (drug delivery), Sophia Genetics (genetics), Haloya (VoIP), Ukko Mobile (mobile data), Fastree3D (3D vision), Vivamea (wellness), Domosafety (home care), Nebion (genomics), Jemmic (trading software) and an electric vehicle infrastructure provider.
1996-2010 Director Strategic Marketing, HP communications and Media Solutions. Responsible for innovation within HP’s 1B$ telecommunication
infrastructure software business . Deployed video, VoIP and mobile prepaid solutions . Investment steering board member, coordinated M&A
and ventures ( Pipebeach , Alcatel-Nextenso, Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco ).
Managed service provider sales at 15 top worldwide accounts.including two of the world’s largest deployments (Orange Business System VoIP
and mobile prepaid at Vodafone and TelesP /Vivo).
1989-1995 Corporate development manager, HP Medical Group.
Managed 7 EU R&D project with €25M budget. Launched healthcare and medical information systems : over 100 hospital patient care projects, created digital radiology products for Philips and GE, managed product
design for intensive care and monitoring and clinical laboratory systems

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