About us
Our vision
As we are leading the way in pioneering the transition toward miniaturized and extra-long life sustaining medical devices through unique technical skills and innovative dedicated energy technologies, our vision as the undisputed leader of energy architecture is to democratize the autonomous micro-source energy industry by making these innovations available to more and more MedTech actors and other industries.
Our mission
Our mission is to put our expertise and innovation at the service of mankind, because we believe that together, we can go further and farther. We believe that by combining our skills in architectural energy management and optimization, with those of innovative MedTech companies, we can, together, create TODAY, the solutions of tomorrow.
VITRUVENS : A DOLIAM Company
Vitruvens is a proud member of the Doliam Group, a private holding specialized in investing, accompanying and developing Medtech companies in various stages of development, from startups to bigger companies.
Our team
Igor Bimbaud
Igor Bimbaud is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vitruvens and the author of 5 patents in the domain of power conversion and new energy sources.
Igor has graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne – France ( UTC ) with a power electronics and robotics engineering degree in 1989 and obtained his MBA degree from the ESSEC School in Paris in 2017.
He started his career as maintenance expert at Kontron Instruments, a intensive care medical instruments OEM company.
1995
He joined Lambda TDK, as a European Field application engineer for telecom and industrial DC/DC power converter.
1999
He continued his career at STMicroelectronics as a strategic marketing leader in power management segments.
2005
He was appointed technical marketing manager of the new energies business unit developing Hydrogen micro fuel cell, solid state thin film battery and energy harvesting technologies.
2007
He led the business unit and spearheaded the development of solid-state micro battery technology up to the installation and the qualification of the first automated solid state battery pilot line.
2018
He was appointed General Manager of Altyor (Orléans) , an IoT manufacturer.
2019
He joined DOLIAM, a private holding company investing primarly in Medtech companies, in order to prepare the creation of Vitruvens.
Maxime Hery
Maxime is an engineer in ultrasonic transducers and acoustic simulation.
After receiving his engineering degree in acoustics and vibration, he obtained his Ph.D. at the CNRS UMR 7347 GREMAN Laboratory studying the impact of viscosity on capacitive micro machined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs). He also implemented design rules for CMUT arrays for imaging applications.
He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a European project developing a new kind of ultrasonic probe to make echostethoscopy affordable to medical associations.
In 2021, he joined the Vitruvens‘ team as an Energy Source Engineer.
Amaury Buffard
Amaury is an electronic engineer specialized in IoT (Internet of Things). He has worked on various innovation projects; inductive recharging of blood glucose sensors, power management of connected watches, standardization of test benches, …
It is with these study projects that Amaury obtained his degree in electronic engineering from ESEO Angers.
In 2023, he joined the Vitruvens‘ team as a biomedical engineer.
Nouâmane Cherkaoui
After a first master’s degree at the University of Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech, Nouâmane received a second master’s degree in Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies with a focus on Nanochemistry & Nano-objects from Grenoble Alpes University. During his master’s studies, he conducted research on pillared graphene materials for energy storage devices at CEA-Grenoble.
After completing his master’s degree, he decided to pursue his doctoral studies in the physico-chemistry of materials at the LNCMI-CNRS Grenoble. His doctoral research focused on the design and characterization of multifunctional materials with diverse physical properties.
In 2023, Nouâmane joins the Vitruvens‘ team as an Energy Storage R&D Engineer.