Nicolas Sauvage
President at TDK Ventures
Nicolas Sauvage
President at TDK Ventures
San Jose, California
Overview
Work Experience
President
2019 - Current
TDK Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund, investing globally in early-stage startups that leverages fundamental material science to unlock an attractive and sustainable future for the world. TDK Ventures goal is to help every start-up we invest to achieve their full potential for positive world impact. More at https://www.tdk-ventures.com/
Board Member
2019
Faction: Board Member: Sept 2023 - present Virewirx: Board Member: Sept 2023 - present XCOM: Observer Board Member: May 2022 - Sept 2023 -> Virewirx Analog Inference: Observer Board Member: May 2021 - present Metalenz: Observer Board Member: Sept 2020 - present Autoflight: Board Member: Feb 2020 - present Mach49 DOI: Board Member: Jan 2020 - present TDK Ventures: Board Member & President: Apr 2019 - present
Kauffman Fellow Class 28
2023
The Kauffman Fellows Program, established in 1995, seeks to develop the next generation of purpose-driven venture capital investors by providing them with the skills, the network, and an enhanced awareness of their life’s mission and legacy in order to support entrepreneurs in an increasingly uncertain world.
Sr. Director Ecosystem
2016 - 2020
Responsible for all strategic relationships with our ecosystem partners in Mobile and IoT. TDK completed acquisition of InvenSense in May 2017.
Worldwide Sales Director
2011 - 2016
2011-2016: Member of management team, responsible for worldwide sales. 2012-2013: Added P&L and Product Management ownership for OEM Business Line, that ultimately grew to become the only Business Line in NXP Software.
VP Sales (last position)
2005 - 2011
Feb 2010 ~ Feb 2011: VP Sales. Responsible for worldwide business development. Nov 2008 ~ Feb 2011: GM Asia. Responsible for BD, operations and local recruitment in Asia. Dec 2005 ~ Oct 2008: Sales Director Asia: Responsible for the business development in Asia.
Product Manager
2000 - 2005
Oct 2003 ~ Dec 2005: Product Marketing Manager. From July 2005: Product Manager in Taipei. Dec 2001 ~ Oct 2003: Product Manager for a software mobile gaming platform called b’ngo. Nov 2000 ~ Fev 2002: Standards coordinator. Also Account Manager for Mobile OEM ZTE.
Spectrum Management - ITU/CEPT/ETSI
1998 - 2000
Lead complex technical negotiations in ITU meetings on radio spectrum, supported by C++ software solutions I developed, ultimately negotiating on UK's behalf at WRC-2000.
DSP developper
1997 - 1997
Software developer. Developed in assembler code a novel algorithm calculating temperatures from Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors and & in ADI's DSP-21020. June~Aug & Dec 1997.
Education
Stanford Executive Program
2018 - 2018
Leading the Effective Sales Force
2013 - 2013
Executive ADP programme
2003 - 2003
MSc by research
1997 - 1998
Diplome dIngenieur
1993 - 1998
Co-founder
2009 - 2016