Venture Partner CONTACT_EMAIL Gérard Hascoët

Gérard Hascoët (60) ,Venture Partner specialized in Medical Devices, is an engineer graduated from E.C.E Paris. He began his career at CGR, the Medical Devices Subsidiary of the French Thomson Group, where he held during 14 years various management positions. In 1985 he founded Technomed International a company developing non invasive therapeutic technologies dedicated to Urology. As CEO he grew the company to its IPO in 1989 with € 40 Million sales. In 1993 he founded 2 companies: IMMI developing Neurosurgery Image guided Robotic systems and SOMETEC developing non invasive Hemodynamic monitoring dedicated to Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. IMMI was acquired in 1997 by ISS a US based company and SOMETEC was acquired in 2000 by Arrow International  a US mid size company  listed on the NASDAQ.
Gérard Hascoët is now Chairman of the Board of SpineVision (France), Chairman of the Board of Medical Device Accelerator (Switzerland), Chairman of the Board of Promed ( Austria),Director of the Board of Dupont Medical (France) and Director of the Board of Altamir Amboise ( France).

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