Charles Vaillant is the Global Vice President of Technology for the MANN+HUMMEL group. He joined MANN+HUMMEL in 1997 and is currently responsible for innovation, new technology research, corporate strategy and corporate ventures. Charles has held a variety of positions in the areas of program management, design & development, product engineering and corporate development. He is based out of our North Carolina Innovation Center located on the campus of North Carolina State University. Charles recently created an IoT Lab in Singapore, at the Heart of Singapore’s start-up ecosystem, to accelerate the digitalization of MANN+HUMMEL products. In 2015, he established in Raleigh, North Carolina i-2-m LLC, a startup company to accelerate commercialization of new technologies in the fields of clean air, clean water, energy and life science. Charles earned an Automotive engineering degree from LTR Eiffel (France), a Masters in Industrial Marketing from ESIDEC (France) and an M.B.A from the University of Michigan Ross Business School (USA). He lives with his wife and two daughters in Raleigh, NC USA