What Happened?
Itasca, IL-based Knowles Appointed Alexis Bernard as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
As a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic, audio processing, and specialty component solutions, serving the mobile consumer electronics, communications, medical, military, aerospace, and industrial markets, Knowles has achieved excellence for nearly 70 years. We strive to continuously reinvent our industry, and develop technology that improves the audio experience. Today, Knowles products are used by more than one billion people worldwide every day, enhancing how they interact with the world around them. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Knowles has nearly 12,000 employees across 15 countries, including more than 800 engineers dedicated to pioneering acoustics and audio technology. This R&D investment, coupled with our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities around the world, enable us to deliver advanced MEMS microphones, balanced armature speakers, voice processing and algorithms, and capacitors and timing devices. We see possibility in unexpected places, and are unified by a spirit of innovation to constantly push boundaries, drive the industry forward and enable people to experience improved voice and audio quality in every facet of their lives. We transform the way people communicate, interact with technology and enjoy sound. We are Knowles.
About the Person
Alexis Bernard is chief technology officer, responsible for Knowles’ technology strategy, roadmap, and partnerships. Alexis’s experience in technology development and corporate strategy will further strengthen Knowles’ global technology vision. Alexis has over 15 years of experience in executive and functional leadership roles with industry-leading technology companies such as Audience, Nokia, and Texas Instruments. Prior to Knowles, he was the chief technology officer at Audience and enlarged its strategic scope beyond audio to include motion processing, multi-sensory intelligence and low-power always-on capabilities. Prior to that role, Alexis was vice president of technology strategy and business development at Nokia. He was responsible, with the CTO, for corporate technology strategy, Nokia’s research portfolio management and operational excellence, technology marketing, open innovation, and mobile ecosystem partnerships. He also spent five years at McKinsey & Company in the firm`s telecom, media and technology practice in New York. He consulted senior management of large companies, government leaders or private equity clients in the telecom and semiconductor sectors on strategy, corporate finance, marketing and operations matters. Alexis began his career as a researcher in speech coding and recognition, including five years in the DSP research and development center of Texas Instruments in Dallas. Alexis is an inventor on multiple patents and author of over 25 publications in the field of digital communications and speech technology. He holds an MSEE from the University of Louvain in Belgium, a PhD electrical engineering from UCLA. Alexis lives in Mountain View, California with his wife and son and enjoys the many outdoor activities of the San Francisco bay area.
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