
CIO (Chief Information Officer) at HJ HEINZ - BENEDICTA
Paris Area, France

CIO (Chief Information Officer) at HJ HEINZ - BENEDICTA
Paris Area, France
Philippe Gautier, Chief Information Officer of Benedicta (Food Industry, FMCG), has over 17 years of experience in either the same function or as an entrepreneur (IT services company - SME).
Previous to Benedicta, he worked for SIEMENS HL (semi-conductors) then for Infineon Technologies (former SIEMENS HL) where he was the Information Technology Manager and IT coordinator (with German Headquarter) for France.
He is an active member of the IGD (institute dedicated to Decisional Analysis) : http://iegd.institut.online.fr/. and he's been also the 1st (in Europe) to implement the whole set of the EPCGlobal standards (including an independent ONS root) at the operational level.
Philippe is also the author of many Press articles (IT, Logistics, etc.) in magazines and on the Web ; many interviews and he regularly speaks in RFID / Logistic or IT dedicated conferences (both in France and other countries.... some in Universities).
He his mainly asked to speak about EPCGlobal networks and the Internet of Things (WEB 3.0).
He recently published in a "quarterly journal on the knowledge and management of information systems aimed at both researchers and practitioners" : Systèmes d'Information et Management (http://revuesim.free.fr/index.php?page=detail&num_article=259&search=no) and he also participated to the last White paper from the EBG : http://www.ebg.net/LE_RESEAU_AU_COEUR_DE_LA_STRATEGIE_DSI.pdf
Last, he received some prizes such as the "2005 GS1 innovation" one, press awards ("Le Monde Informatique/CIO magazine 2006 for SMEs", "01 DSI(CIO) 2007 for SMEs" and "01 DSI (CIO) Jury's special prize for 2007), etc.
PG has initiated the first EPCGlobal pilot in Europe* using the whole set of standards : track and trace of pallets** with both RFID (UHF GEN2-96 bits) and Barcodes (EAN 128) in a open networking environment. He recently deployed the first operational "Discovery service" in Europe (BRIDGE's design).
(*) see http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/2697/1/1/
and http://www.filrfid.org/article-4076548.html
(**) including EPCIS+ONS (independant root : the first operational one in Europe)
(Food & Beverages industry)
August 2008 — Present (2 months)
Since Benedicta has been bought by HJ-HEINZ
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
More informations on CILs at http://www.cnil.fr/index.php?id=1821
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)
February 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)
http://www.siaige.com
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
August 2001 — Present (7 years 2 months)
Chief Information Officer
Philippe has initiated the first EPCGlobal/RFID pilot in Europe for Benedicta using all the EPCGlobal available standards in an open loop.
The purpose was to track and trace pallets, in real time, using ALL the standards (ONS with a dedicated root, EPCIS, ALE, TDS, TDT, etc.) over both the RFID technology (UHF GEN2-96 bits) and the Barcodes (EAN 128 labels) in a open networking environment (multiple partners).
Philippe made also Benedicta participating the EU cofunded BRIDGE project (workpackage 2&3 - workpackage 4 - workpackage 9). See also : http://www.bridge-project.eu/index.php/B%E9n%E9dicta/en/.
He also strongly participated to the AS2 development in France.
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Participating in: CLUSIF, EPCGlobal, IETF, etc...
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
May 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 3 months)
IT Manager France for SIEMENS HL then for INFINEON FRANCE (after the carve out and IPO)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
December 1996 — May 1999 (2 years 6 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 8 months)
VAR, IT networks, consulting.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1990 — May 1994 (3 years 6 months)
Management of Paris Business Units: "SEQUENCE PARIS" (IXème then XIIème arrondissement). "Sequence Informatique" is a French network of IT Value Added Resellers.
However mainly selfmade.....
Internet of Things / Web 3.0, Science, history, competitive intelligence, future of the internet, Engineering of the systems and the organisations.... "Internet of Things" Linkedin group manager (http://www.i-o-t.org).
S.I.A.I.G.E : Systèmes d'Information Appliqués à l'Intelligence et à la Guerre Economique (French THINK-TANK, this could be translated as : "Competitive Intelligence and Economic Warfare through the IT vision").
http://blog.siaige.com/
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Member of the steering comitee at GS1 France (http://www.gs1.fr/)
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Member of FILRFID (http://www.filrfid.org/)
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Moderator of the Linkedin "Internet of Things" group (www.i-o-t.org)
GS1 : 1st "innovation prize" (2005).
See also in French on page 35 (EPC trial): http://www.gs1.fr/gs1_fr/securedownload/dl/42955/400872/file/universite2006.pdf
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IDG france / Le Monde Informatique - SME prize (2006)
See http://www.idg.fr/TROPHEES2006/telechargement/LMI_Trophees.pdf
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Club 01 DSI : SME prize (2007) and Jury special prize (2007)
(01 Informatique is part of Groupe tests-01 net/nextradioTV)
See
http://www.01net.com/editorial/366958/philippe-gautier-visionnaire-et-innovateur/
and
http://www.01net.com/contenu/3322/dsi2007/resultats