Dr. Vincent Pluvinage
President and Chief Executive Officer

Vincent brings more than 18 years of experience in technology business, R&D operations and intellectual property management to his role as chief executive of IPVALUE Management. He guides all aspects of the company’s business direction and strategy.

Prior to IPVALUE, Vincent was Chief Executive Officer of Preview Systems, a company in the digital rights management arena. Vincent built the company from its pre-financing stage to a public corporation listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Under his leadership, Preview software was licensed by a number of global companies including Adobe, Real Networks, Matsushita, Sony and Symantec.

In 1987, Vincent spun out the advanced digital processing technology he had developed at Bell Labs as ReSound Corp. for use in medical applications. He led ReSound’s R&D team to develop new technologies, and later expanded his role to president of international operations, leading the company’s entre into the European and Asia markets. Vincent was instrumental in building ReSound to over $120 million in revenue and taking it public. Subsequently, the company was acquired by GN Great Nordic of Europe. Today, the ReSound brand is one of the most respected in advanced technology hearing instruments.

Vincent’s career started at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he conducted research on a range of digital signal processing technologies. He received Bell Labs’ prestigious “Exceptional Contribution Award” for his work on technology that formed the basis for ReSound.

Vincent holds six patents in the areas of acoustics, digital signal processing and wireless. He earned his master’s degree in applied physics engineering from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and his doctorate degree in bioengineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Vincent currently serves on the board of directors of several private companies, and is an officer of the Barbary Coast Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.

Favorite Inventions of All Time:
  • Marconi’s Radio
  • Shannon’s Information Theory
  • Watson and Crick’s DNA Double Helix



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