Yannick Hoyau

Yannick HOYAU has extensive work experience in the automotive industry, particularly in the field of embedded Electronics Products for automotive markets. Yannick has held various leadership positions at Marelli and Silicomp Ingénierie.

At Marelli, Yannick has served as the Vice President, Head of Engineering & Innovation since October 2021. Prior to that, they were the Vice President, Head of Engineering for the Marelli Electronics Business Unit from April 2019 to October 2021. In this role, they managed a team of 1500+ people across 12 sites in Europe, USA, Brazil, China, Japan, and India, and led the development and production launches of embedded Electronics Products for major car-makers.

Before their role as Vice President, Head of Engineering, Yannick was the Head of Engineering (R&D Director) for the Magneti Marelli Electronics Business Lines from October 2016 to April 2019. Yannick managed a team of 1200+ people spread across 10 sites globally and was responsible for the development and production launches of embedded Electronics Products for various car-makers.

Yannick's experience at Marelli also includes serving as the Head of Core Engineering, where they led Core Engineering activities for Electronics Business Lines and managed a team of 360 people across multiple locations. Yannick also served as the System Integration and Validation Manager, overseeing system and software integration, tests management, system delivery, and more for Magneti Marelli Electronic Systems.

Prior to joining Marelli, Yannick worked at Silicomp Ingénierie as a System Integrator, focusing on system integration activities for Infotainment & Telematics products and deploying solutions for configuration management and versioning.

Overall, Yannick HOYAU brings extensive expertise in engineering and innovation in the automotive industry, with a strong focus on embedded Electronics Products and system integration.

Yannick HOYAU completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences from Université d'Orléans between 1993 and 1995. Following this, they pursued an Engineer's degree in Computer Science from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) from 1995 to 1998.