Team

Guy Paillet

Chairman, CEO and CTO

Guy is an “out-of-the-box” thinker and the co-inventor in 1993 with an IBM France team of the ZISC (Zero Instruction Set Computer), a neural network chip actively manufactured by IBM. He brings a long experience in semiconductors, parallel architectures and neural network technology. In 1976 he was one of the first to introduce the Motorola MC6800 in France and in 1980 designed for ASM with Arthur Del Prado team, the first diffusion furnaces controller, installed in Thomson in Grenoble. Prior to joining General Vision in 1999, he served in Data Sud Systems (VME) as CEO. In 1996 he moved to Silicon Valley with the ZISC developing a  new generation of natively parallel combinatorial neurons chips NeuroMem® used all over the World, in the US, EU, including in Asia (Korea, India, Japanese) and Russian steel industries.
He is pursuing “Generic Vision” by “non fetch and decode” methods, especially with the “Monolithic Image Perception Device” jointly patented with Asahi Glass .

Marc Maman

Executive VP, Business Development

Marc brings us over 40 years experience in executive management, corporate strategy, and World Wide Sales. After having being Marketing Director with Motorola just after the  birth of the first Motorola microprocessor MC6800 from 1979 until 1994 then Marc joined ST Microelectronics served as Key Account and Distribution Director for Great China at ST Microelectronics, and later as Regional Vice President in Shanghai until 2015, before joining General Vision.

Paul Gallagher

Managing  Director AI Vision Sensors

Paul Gallagher has been involved in image sensors, software and systems his whole career, working on products as diverse as nuclear missile navigation to the Barbie Cam.  He has headed up the marketing and business development teams for OmniVision, Samsung SLSI CMOS Imaging Group, Pelican Imaging, and Airy3D. He has successfully created and led teams that are responsible for finding and winning new large volume markets for novel imaging technologies and applications,  nearly tripling revenue in saturated markets (low$300m-nearly $900M) while increasing profitability.

He saw the potential for CMOS Imaging in the early 90’s and joined VLSI Vision (VVL), within a few months of their opening an office in the US.  He has been a SW algorithmic for scene understanding, Test Engineer, Applications Engineer, Product, Program and Executive Marketing Manager.  He is currently developing opportunities and technologies for Image Sensing, Neuromorphic Processing and Secure Computing.  He holds 13 patents, and has written over 25 papers for journals and magazines.

Anne Menendez

Founder & Advisor

Anne Menendez founded GTFS Inc., a machine vision company in 1987. Guy Paillet joigned Anne in 2000 and they renamed GTFS as General Vision Inc. (GV).
She left GV in 2019 after spending 20 years doing a fantastic work of software development, NeuroMem ASIC’s development as well as training/technical documentation. Anne remains a significant shareholder and advisor of GV.

Jean-Christophe Marion

Advisor

JC has a strong background in embedded software development in access telecommunications equipment. In his 30 years of experience, he worked on all generations of DSL and contributed to the genesis of the now ubiquitous fiber to the home. His forte is embedded real-time firmware where strong constraints of code space  can only be met when the design has been refined to its simplest form. This approach to simple design is very much applicable to the Neuromem technology where software should be seen as an add-on.