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Jean Francois Abramatic is ILOG's chief product officer. He is responsible for product vision and strategy; product design and development; and product marketing and management. Abramatic oversees every element of how products are defined, developed, engineered, brought to market and maintained.
A former ILOG board member, Abramatic has more than 30 years of research-and-development experience in a broad range of academic and industrial disciplines. In his current role he spearheads ILOG's product division, directing an international team of scientists, product managers and software engineers located in France and the United States.
A recognized Internet authority, Abramatic was chairman of the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from 1996 to 2001, and is a former director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He has also advised the French government on the state of Internet development worldwide, including recommendations for speeding up Internet development in France.
Abramatic's technology experience includes roles as former associate director at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and the founding of the Department of Business Development at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA).
He currently serves on many advisory boards including the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, which advises the French government on information technology strategies. He also serves on advisory boards for Reuters Venture Capital; the Forum des Droits de l.Internet (a forum aimed at debating about rights and ethics on the Web); and Xylème (a content solutions provider).
Earlier achievements include a role as founder, chairman and CEO of a company that designed and manufactured graphics terminals. Abramatic started his career as a research scientist at INRIA, concentrating on the area of image processing. He has published more than 40 scientific papers, and holds two patents in image processing.
Abramatic earned an engineering diploma at Ecole des Mines, Nancy, in 1971, and a PhD in computer science at the University of Paris VI in 1980. | 