Hervé Lefevre is Vice President of IxCore and President of « Société Française d'Optique ». He started his career as a researcher at the Ginzton optics research lab at Stanford University. He was CTO and Vice President of Photonetics until it was sold in a transaction that remains one of the best exits of the history of French Venture Capital. He is the author of over 60 scientific publications in optics and 40 patents. He graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud and holds a PhD from Paris Orsay University.