Yves Karcher received his Master of Sciences of Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (INPG) with Honors in 1982 and an EMBA from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland in 2004.
He joined Hewlett Packard, Grenoble as Hardware Engineer then moved to AGIE, Switzerland, as Software Engineer creating a disruptive type of Electro Erosion Machine tool. He joined Logitech in 1989 and held various leadership roles in IT, Quality management, software development and enterprise projects, such as innovative workflow tools and the first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
In 1999, Yves Karcher lead Logitech Engineering as director for mice and trackballs and later as Vice-President for all Consumer Computing products, which included retail, OEM, Gaming and tab-related accessories as well as future categories. Experimenting with innovation, new technologies and customer insights methods, he partnered closely with General Managers and his marketing counterparts to define the strategy, the roadmap and the global execution plan that delivered double digit category growth for mature categories and that successfully introduced new categories such as keyboards for iPad. He led and developed a group of up to 400 engineers in Switzerland, Ireland, US/Silicon Valley, Taiwan, China and India
At the same time, as Swiss site leader, he moved the Swiss facilities on the EPFL campus and created an environment that further fostered collaboration and innovation for 220+ employees. Featured in several case studies and with strong ties to EPFL, IMD and local community, Yves intervened routinely in classes and workshops on the theme of innovation, company values and bridges between innovation strategy and execution.
In January 2015, Yves Karcher retired from the corporate world and created InnoExec Sàrl to share what he learnt on Innovation and Execution to companies and students. He interacts in French and English, whether in board strategy meetings, workshops, seminars, classes or one-to-one coaching.
More specifically, he is lecturing in innovation, entrepreneurship, execution, change management, pitching in various swiss and american universities. He is a speaker and panelist for various organisations. A coach for several R&D leaders, he is also facilitating innovation and organisational design workshops with multinational companies, swiss SMEs and international startups. Finally, he is helping boards to explore and converge on innovation options, with corresponding executions strategies.
Want to know more ? Check LinkedIn profile or contact him at [email protected]!
He joined Hewlett Packard, Grenoble as Hardware Engineer then moved to AGIE, Switzerland, as Software Engineer creating a disruptive type of Electro Erosion Machine tool. He joined Logitech in 1989 and held various leadership roles in IT, Quality management, software development and enterprise projects, such as innovative workflow tools and the first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
In 1999, Yves Karcher lead Logitech Engineering as director for mice and trackballs and later as Vice-President for all Consumer Computing products, which included retail, OEM, Gaming and tab-related accessories as well as future categories. Experimenting with innovation, new technologies and customer insights methods, he partnered closely with General Managers and his marketing counterparts to define the strategy, the roadmap and the global execution plan that delivered double digit category growth for mature categories and that successfully introduced new categories such as keyboards for iPad. He led and developed a group of up to 400 engineers in Switzerland, Ireland, US/Silicon Valley, Taiwan, China and India
At the same time, as Swiss site leader, he moved the Swiss facilities on the EPFL campus and created an environment that further fostered collaboration and innovation for 220+ employees. Featured in several case studies and with strong ties to EPFL, IMD and local community, Yves intervened routinely in classes and workshops on the theme of innovation, company values and bridges between innovation strategy and execution.
In January 2015, Yves Karcher retired from the corporate world and created InnoExec Sàrl to share what he learnt on Innovation and Execution to companies and students. He interacts in French and English, whether in board strategy meetings, workshops, seminars, classes or one-to-one coaching.
More specifically, he is lecturing in innovation, entrepreneurship, execution, change management, pitching in various swiss and american universities. He is a speaker and panelist for various organisations. A coach for several R&D leaders, he is also facilitating innovation and organisational design workshops with multinational companies, swiss SMEs and international startups. Finally, he is helping boards to explore and converge on innovation options, with corresponding executions strategies.
Want to know more ? Check LinkedIn profile or contact him at [email protected]!