Guillaume Boisset

Biography:

Guillaume Boisset received his B. Eng in 1992, his M. Eng in 1994, and his PhD. (in  photonics) in 1998, all from the McGill University electrical engineering department. He worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Department at Corning Inc. from 1998 to 2003, starting up factories making fibre bragg gratings and DWDM free-space liquid crystal switches in New York and California. From 2003 to 2005 he received his MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He worked as test engineering manager in a Lumentum Inc. factory making Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifiers in Shenzhen, Guangdong, from 2005 to 2007. He has been working at Sierra Wireless in Vancouver since 2007, where he is now Director of Manufacturing Engineering. He has worked in factories in Canada, USA, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico, England, France, China, Dubai, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and South Korea. He has led operations integration teams involved in M&A (Merger and Acquisition) activity on deals totalling over a billion dollars. He has transferred from lab to factory over ten billion dollars worth of wireless and optical telecom products over his career. He was IEEE Vancouver Section vice-chair in 2017 and chair in 2018 and served in the reserves of the Canadian Military in 1989.