Vincent Despatin

Armed with extensive experience in business development in the USA, China and France, Vincent Despatin has developed a clear-eyed view of a critical blind spot: the majority of hardware innovations were failing not for lack of ideas, but for lack of industrialisationexpertise early enough in the development cycles. Vincent co-founded Kickmaker in 2016 alongside Eric Elmlas and Nathalie Lopes Chevallier to help companies succeed in their go-to-market journey, moving prototypes to production stage. Kickmaker has grown into a global force: 300+ engineers, 8 innovation hubs across 3 continents, empowering the most ambitous global brands, still driven by the same goal: engineering innovators' ambitions, transforming possibility into product.