Who's part of the alliance board ?

Samuel Loyson graduated from Polytechnique in 1998 and then completed a second master in telecommunication engineering in 2000 from Télécom Paris.

He worked at Orange during 8 years in the R&D department as a Director. He then became Marketing Director of the "Connected Cars" unit at Orange Business Services.

Samuel Loyson works since 6 years at SUEZ as Head of Smart Metering and is in charge of Suez's Wize networks which counts today more than 4 millions smart meters.

With 35 years of experience in the energy distribution sector, he has primarily held management positions, progressing to regional Director roles. His professional background is built around technical fields (network construction, operation, and maintenance), customer-focused roles (account and contract management), and commercial activities (ranging from individual clients to industrial customers). Drawing on his operational experience, he has decided to transition into research and development, innovation, and value creation, aiming to leverage his expertise to drive progress in these areas.

Eric has an electronic engineer diploma from the school ESME Sudria and has graduated in 1987. He worked for 16 years as a business unit director in the company "Compteurs Farnier". He arrived at SUEZ in 2009 when it was still the Lyonnaise des Eaux and worked as a Technical Manager. For 3 years he worked for Engie (GDF Suez) as an Industrial Strategy & Smart Devices Purchasing Manager. In 2015, he joined SUEZ Smart Solutions as a Strategic Project Manager.

Thierry DOLIGEZ is the CEO and Founder of LANPARK.
Since 2001, Thierry has developed LANPARK’s testing services around DSL, Powerline and RF communications, optical fiber and CCTV, with the aim of helping the industry for a mass market thanks to interoperability.
Previously, Thierry worked for Kurtosis Ingénierie, a company he co-founded in 1990, specialized in digital signal processing and telecommunications.
Thierry holds a master’s degree from CPE Lyon, with a specialization in digital signal processing. He has also a post-graduate degree in Signal, Image and Speech processing from Grenoble INP (Grenoble Institute of Technology).

Alain Desandre is the technical leader of the smart meters project Gazpar of GRDF, in charge of the radio equipment, the head-end & supervision information system, and the roll-out information system.

Alain has 30 years of experience as project director. He led several complex projects in transportation, telecom, industry and energy sectors, in France, the United State and South America. Before serving the AMR project of GRDF, Alain was involved in Capgemini for 13 years, as Business Developer, Skill Group and Skill Center manager for the technical computing activities of Capgemini in France. Previously, Alain worked for 10 years with various manufacturers as project leader on embedded systems.

Jean-Philippe Sacriste is an engineer in energy and environment from the Ecole Supérieur d'ingénieurs of Poitiers. He started his career as a PCB manufacturing manager.

From 1998 to 2002 he was a Plant manager at Sagem in Lannion then in St Etienne du Rouvray. In 2002 he became Operations Director at Sagem Communications Tunisia. Since 2007 he is Energy Deputy Director at Sagemcom.

Eric Rieul is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Sagemcom. He began his career as an engineer for Research and Development in the field of Defense at Sagem in 1991.

He was responsible for a Research Unit. Later, he held positions in marketing and sales within different Business Units. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Director of Network Business Unit. In 2007, he became Senior Vice-President in charge of Energy & Telecom Business Unit of Sagem Communications.

Eric Rieul graduated from Telecom Paris and from the “Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers”.