Jacques Gatard is an experienced Aerospace Engineer, CEO of OcBizDev, a consultancy company based near Toulouse, France.
He has graduated to the MSc in Physics/Acoustics from CNAM Paris and the Aerospace MBA from Toulouse Business School
His 30+ years long aerospace career started with ONERA, working in different domains (aeroacoustics, wind tunnels, sales department) until 2011. Since then, Jacques has worked for different companies in the Avionics and Fintech domains as sales manager and VP sales.
During his career, he has been in charge of projects in many different domains, covering materials and structures, aerodynamics, optics and electromagnetism, thermodynamics and propulsion, embedded systems, AI/ML and avionics among others, from R&T to B2B sales.