Mr. Bruno PAING

In 1998, Mr Paing obtained his Master of Science in Engineering specialized in electronics, digital communications, optoelectronics and telecommunications from the French “Supelec” Engineering School and through completion of a one year training course in France Telecom focused on WDM Optical fibre transatlantic transmission. He also holds a MBA degree from EM Lyon (Management School) since January 2011.

He spent 18 months in Taiwan in 1998-1999, appointed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to manage the franco-taiwanese scientific cooperation (French Institute in Taipei).

In January 2000, He started at SAGEM (now Sagemcom) as pre-sales engineer in charge of export technical support for optical network solutions which led him to become in 2001 Project manager at BIMSolutions (start-up company developing Mobile Internet solutions) and incorporated in a consulting mission at RTE (French Electric Transport Network) to implement billing tools in the scope of the French electric market extension.

Bruno Paing was posted at the French Embassy in Hanoi from 2002 to 2005, as scientific attaché where he spearheaded the Franco-Vietnamese scientific cooperation in various fields such as nuclear energy, nanotechnologies, information technologies, social sciences, applied sciences, etc. along with academic and education cooperation projects and scholarship programs (>500 scholars). He also actively rolled out 3 research projects financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

In 2005, Mr Paing joined the technological research division of CEA to work on strategic marketing issues. His tasks included building business development strategies and actively promoting MINATEC innovation campus towards potential international institutional and academic partners. In January 2008, he was appointed deputy Director of MINATEC and developed MINATEC brand international awareness and fostered stakeholders’ interactions during the 3 following years. After completing his MBA course, he joined the management team of CEA-Leti (research institute on micro-nanotechnologies and ICT) in September 2011 as VP Sales & Marketing, with a mission to develop key accounts with transversal interests across Microelectronics, Photonics and Systems Divisions of Leti.

In 2013, he moved to Tokyo to take over the position of Japan representative for CEA Tech, hosted at the Embassy of France in Tokyo. CEA Tech is the Technology research Division of CEA which encompasses 3 Research institutes: LETI (advanced microelectronics and microsystems), LITEN (Innovation in new Technologies for Energy) and LIST (complex software research activities). In August 2017, he moved to California (Caltech, Pasadena) to manage CEA Tech strategic partnerships in North America and came back to France in July 2021 to join the International affairs Division at CEA Head Office. As Deputy Director for international relations, he will particularly focus his efforts on Renewable Energies and Digital Technologies.