Satt calls up Nérin

Réseau Satt, an association of France’s 14 regional tech transfer offices, today elected Philippe Nérin (pictured), head of the Satt AxLR office in Montpellier, as president for a one-year term.
Nérin will start his tenure on September 1, taking the reins from Laurent Baly, leader of Satt Sud-Est, who has presided over the network since December 2016.
He will serve alongside the association’s newly-appointed secretary Céline Clausener and treasurer Vincent Lamande, both of whom also have one-year appointments.
Clausener is currently director of external relations at Satt IDF Innov in Paris, while Lamande is president of Satt Ouest Valorisation, which has offices in Rennes, Nantes and Brest.
The newly-appointed team is expected to continue Réseau Satt’s search for innovations amid renewed emphasis on fields such as deep tech as a force for economic development by the French government and state-owned investment bank Bpifrance.
Réseau Satt was founded in 2014 and oversees France’s regional Satt offices, which aim to align commercialisation activities across multiple public research organisations.
Nérin’s priorities include developing Satt TTOs’ profile with national companies and building their global presence. He will also seek to share technologies between different Satt offices and distribute expertise in creating businesses.
Nérin has led Satt AxLR since 2012 and had previously been a research director at Horiba Medical, the clinical instrument arm of diversified equipment manufacturer Horiba.
He was with advanced metrology tools supplier Fogale Nanotech from 1997 until 2003, following three years as a research engineer at the Grenoble branch of research institute Centre for Nuclear Studies.