Bruno Maisonnier
CEO and founder of Aldebaran Robotics, the 1st European company specialized in design and sales of programmable humanoid robots. Graduated from Polytechnique and Telecom Paris, his career was built on two pillars: IT and management of banks. He first worked for 10 years as IT manager of various banks and high tech companies, until he became DP manager of a bank, where he headed multi-partners projects. He then became successful CEO of international financial companies (Brazil, Poland and Portugal) improving thus his multicultural management skills. Fascinated by robotics for years, he has been closely following this market and its evolution for the past 25 years, waiting for the right time to launch his company, ‘Aldebaran Robotics’, founded in 2005, thus becoming one of the pioneers of this new industry.