Our CEO, Fabien Gaussorgues, has 25 years of engineering and operations management experience, mostly in Fortune 500 groups (Safran, Thales, Nortel, and Airbus).
He developed subsystems that ended in cars, fighter jets, 3G base stations, and in mobile phones to be used in secured and private networks.
Fabien has been in China for 10+ years and has managed key suppliers for the Airbus group. His main focus was on the launch of new products (new product introduction).
He launched a supply chain management & engineering company, SAOS, in 2011. From 2014 to 2018, Sofeast and SAOS gradually merged operations. Fabien manages the day to day operations at Agilian since 2018.
He works with new customers on setting the right strategy, from prototyping to manufacturing, and coaches the team in providing the right level of assistance along the way.
Fabien welcomes you to connect via his LinkedIn profile.
Our Executive VP, Renaud Anjoran, is a recognised expert in quality and supply chain issues.
He has worked in purchasing and quality for 15+ years in greater China. His main experience has been in electronics, textiles, plastic injection, die casting, eyewear, furniture, oil & gas, and paint.
He’s an ASQ-Certified ‘Quality Engineer’, ‘Reliability Engineer’, and ‘Quality Manager’, and a certified ISO 9001 & 14001 Lead Auditor.
Renaud writes a popular blog on these topics and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the LA Times, Reuters, Business Insider, the South China Morning Post, Quality Progress, Quality Digest, and more.
He’s also a resident expert on the Hardware Academy, a platform providing guidance, training, resources, and networking for entrepreneurs, engineers, startups, and SMEs who are developing and manufacturing new electronic hardware products.
Feel free to connect with Renaud via his LinkedIn page.
Kate, our head of Purchasing and project management lead, brings more than 10 years of experience working with Chinese and Asian supply chains to our team and has been with us since 2018.
She holds an MSc in international economics and an Executive MBA (from the University of Cumbria in the UK).
Before coming to China she was a logistics and purchasing manager in Ukraine and worked as a fulfillment manager in Singapore, then after arriving in China she was the operations manager of a Taiwanese-American electronics company.
Kate is our go-to for supply chain, logistics, and project management queries, as well as business development.
Our CTO, Robin Guan, is an electronic engineer with 20 years of experience in product development in Shenzhen.
He started his career working at Huawei for 8 years, as a hardware engineer and as a project leader working on new product introduction.
He was then a senior project manager, working on the development and production of various mobile devices, at Hytera Communications for 8 years. (Hytera is a telecommunication devices manufacturer that went public in 2011 and is a world leader in certain markets.)
Robin is leading the development of our own ERP system, which is tailored to our way of working and is impacting all aspects of our organization internally.
He also provides guidance to the teams based on his past experiences in development and manufacturing, both on the technical side and on the supply chain side.
Finally, Robin helps ensure compliance with local laws and regulations, as our operations become more complex.
Paul is a highly experienced British engineer with a Master of Science (MSc), in Manufacturing: Management & Technology with over 3 decades of experience working on varied electro-mechanical products, including banknote counters, breathing apparatuses for the fire brigade, inhaler product designs, industrial water products, electronic control products, medical products, automotive product design and analysis, fixing devices, electronic handheld games, golf cart and stairlift motors, and many more.
As well as the UK, Paul has worked across Asia for over a decade in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
Paul brings all of this experience to the table to reduce risks and make smoother progress for your new product development projects, adding to the team’s capabilities with his knowledge of all New Product Development (NPD) tools and technologies and the ability to manage a product from an engineering concept to mass production.
You can check out Paul’s LinkedIn profile for further information about his experience.
