Team and management

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The executive team

Executive Team

  • Alain Straboni

    Alain Straboni : Chairman and founder

    • Professor in material physics ;
    • 14 years in CMOS Microelectronics at Grenoble France Telecom ;
    • 12 years as professor at Poitiers University in surface physics and solar photovoltaics ;
    • More than 20 patents.


  • Antoine Soulié de Morant

    Antoine Soulié de Morant : Chief Executive Officer

    • 27 years of professional experience in industry and consulting ;
    • Development manager - Alcatel-Alstom ;
    • Industry business unit manager - BPI ;
    • Human resources manager - electronic division - Valeo.


  • Florent Dupont

    Florent Dupont : R&D manager

    • Eurec engineer ;
    • Project manager - Rural electrification, solar drying, wind turbine workshop – Africa ;
    • Co-president of “L’atelier du soleil et du vent” a NGO think tank on the use and production of energy.


  • Jean-Baptiste Brette

    Jean-Baptiste Brette : Industrial processes

    • 5 years experience in automotive industry - Creation of methodologies for Finite Element Calculation ;
    • Project manager in rural electrification - Sulabob Ltd. (Laos) ;
    • Research engineer in concentrated solar power - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.


  • Gaetan Lorillère

    Gaëtan Lorillère : R&D support

    • Design of mechanical systems and design of special machines ;
    • Technician methods - Design of high-tech batteries for Industry – Saft.

Our team has a great motivation for spreading the use of solar photovoltaics through the strong decrease of its costs and the increase of its efficiency. The scientists, engineers, technicians, students are composing the workforce that concentrates all its energy in the development of innovative processes and equipements. The professional development of our technical and administrative staff is in that sense an important part of our continued success. With a mix of different skills, background and experience, S'Tile offers also an exciting opportunity for a fruitful cooperation with several major European institutes.

Supervisory Board

  • Dr. Jean-Philippe Stefanini

    Dr. Jean-Philippe Stefanini :

    • General partner at Emertec Gestion since 1999 ;
    • 20 years industry experience at a large aerospace group as research engineer and at a successful start-up as strategic marketing officer.


  • Dr. Volker Hoffmann

    Dr. Volker Hoffmann :

    • R&D manager at Q-Cells from its start-up to 2009 ;
    • Technology consultant for the photovoltaic value chain from silicon feedstock to PV-systems.



  • Emmanuel Turlot

    Emmanuel Turlot :

    • 20 years of operational and strategic experience in the PV, Flat Panel and Semiconductor equipment industry ;
    • General Manager at Thomson Multimedia, CEO of Unaxis-Nextral, CTO at the Swiss technology conglomerate Oerlikon and CEO of an innovative company Beamind.