Olivier Charlon

Olivier Charlon joined SCALINX to lead product strategy & development. For over 27 years, he has been successfully building engineering teams and developing disruptive System-on-Chips products. Before joining SCALINX, he spent 5 years at Apple Cupertino, California, leading the Cellular chipset silicon program management team. ​.

He also spent 4 years at Maxim Integrated as an Executive Director of Design where he led design & applications teams for the Core Products business unit. While at Scintera Networks (US start up acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2014), he was Vice President of IC Engineering, taking several generations of the very innovative RF Power Amplifier Linearizers (RFPAL) to volume production over 7 years.​

Subsequently, he became CFO of SAMES (a division of EXEL Industries), where he led growth and restructuring operations, contributing to increasing the group’s valuation from €8 million to €183 million in five years. He also led the merger with the WAGON AUTOMOTIVE group, identifying significant synergies and optimizing the profitability of operations.

Before joining Scintera in 2007, he was at Philips Semiconductors/NXP, in Southampton UK and San Jose California, where he held various technical leadership positions. During this time, he led IC design teams in the field of TV and CD/DVD; RF transceivers for CDMA, WLAN and Bluetooth standards; and high-speed ADC’s. He holds twelve patents in the field of semiconductors and wireless communications.

He published multiple articles in major international journals and conferences. He attended Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique in Paris, and received his MSEE in 1996.