Pierre Taillardat, Sophia Euro Lab's director

Pierre Taillardat was appointed director of Sophia Euro Lab, an incubator and financial support introduced to the Foundation of Sophia Antipolis. Engineer in applied arts and crafts, of the IEP of Paris, he has the technological and the financial competence at the same time and he knows the region very well. He was a financial analyst within the Indosuez bank, specialized in leverage operations (LBO) in Asia and the United States and he worked as an officer in charge of corporate customers in the PACA region.In January 1999, he took the responsibility of Corporate Finance within the Ernst & Young service firm on the Mediterranean Pole. He had formed a team specialized in the support of start-ups and had run with success several leverage operations (more than 150 MF raised in 2000) scaled on the priming rounds at the third one. He will be in charge to ensure the success of Sophia Euro Lab, the first incubator and financial support of the research centre.