About Us
About Us
We are a team of passionate people whose goal is to improve everyone’s life through disruptive products. We build great products and services to solve your daily business problems.
Our products are designed for companies willing to optimize their performance.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy, that considers digitalisation as a strategic process, has driven our product offering and services. We stand for autonomy and empowerment of our customers by evolutionary implementation (technology follows learning curve), knowledge and learning community, as well as favouring of bottom-up approach with embedding application experience.
Strategic partnership
GradeSens has established several strategic partnerships with Harmony Solutions (strategy, business development and finance) and with Contrinex (global sensors manufacturer). In 2021, we signed a frame agreement with Andritz Hydro, nr 1 hydro turbines supplier. We also collaborate with academic institutions including ROSAS (HEIA-FR, Switzerland) on life cycle engineering as well as HES-SO in Yverdon, Switzerland for the radio technology.
Sustainable Development Goals
GradeSens indirectly participates to the United Nations SDG . Especially the Goals 9 and 12.
Awards
Our Team
GradeSens was founded in 2018 by Yvan Jacquat, Dipl. Ing. from ETHZ with executive MBA and has more than 20 years of experience in industrial maintenance, Condition Monitoring and predictive analytics. The development of our technology is covered by Dr Didier Nicoulaz who obtained his microelectronics PhD in EPFL and has more than 20 years of experience in the development of high end technologies.
Yvan Jacquat
Co-Founder & CEO
MSc., EMBA, 25 years in maintenance (preventive, predictive)
Fabienne Jacquat
Co-founder & CFO
Economist, +30 years in finance consulting for SMEs (External)
Didier Nicoulaz
CTO
MSc., PhD, 30 years in R&D, AI, Software & Hardware Dev.
MASSIMO RAVASI
Head of Software Dev.
MSc, PhD, 30 yeast in Software Dev.
Frédéric Steinmann
Sales
Machine designer, production management, 35 years in production, sales, coaching & training (Part time)
Fabien Ravet
COO
MSc., PhD, 30 years in seismic and vibration sensing technologies
Gaël Vuarnoz
Project Engineer
Bachelor, Mechanical Engineer, HEIA-FR (Part time)
Marcel Egger
Financial Advisor
Early Stage Investor SICTIC, Former Finance Director, Richemont Group (External, Part time)
François Stieger
Strategic Partnership
Former VP Oracle and President BroadVision Europe (External)