MASA’ experienced team of managers is sharing the same vision for innovation and international growth.
Juan-Pablo Torres, President and CEO
Juan-Pablo was appointed MASA's President and CEO in 2011 with the mandate to grow the company as an international leader in the M&S software industry for the defense, homeland security and emergency management markets as well as to accelerate MASA's multi-sector development. Prior to MASA, Pablo worked at Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, leading the business development activities for Mobile Broadcast technologies in Southern Europe and the Americas. Pablo has a broad experience in defining and implementing go-to-market strategies for disruptive technologies. His background includes market and financial research for the space telecommunications industry, financial modeling of market behaviors in the banking industry, as well consulting with the US government on geopolitical technology analyses and international strategic partnerships. Pablo is a graduate from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and a Master’s degree in Technology and Policy from MIT. Pablo is perfectly fluent in Spanish, French and English.
Rémi Gilet, Vice President, France
Rémi arrived at MASA Group in 2002, first as Manager of the SCIPIO project, then as Chief Operating Officer in charge of simulation projects. After 10 years working in the CAD industry, first as R&D Engineer, then as Pre-sales Engineer and finally as Service Department Manager at Matra Datavision, Rémi Gilet has been Chief Operating Officer for 4 years in an information technology service company. Rémi Gilet holds an Engineering degree in Mechanics.
John D. Pietrzak, Vice President, MASA Group, Inc.
John leads the North America subsidiary MASA Group Inc. in Norfolk, Virginia. John has over 27 years of experience in the industries of aerospace, Naval Aviation, semiconductor, telecommunications, emergency management, and modeling, simulation,& training. His career includes service with the United States Navy, Texas instruments, Alcatel-Lucent, EWA GSI, and CAE USA. He holds a B.S. Aerospace and Ocean Engineering degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; an M.S. in Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California; and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
Julien Lemoine, Chief Technology Officer
Julien leads MASA's technology strategy. Prior to MASA, Julien worked at Exalead (a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) where he led the R&D and product development strategies using cutting-edge technologies for indexing and natural language processing. Julien has extensive experience in designing and implementing efficient software architectures from his past work at Exalead and Thales Communications. Julien holds an Engineering degree from EPITA in France where he received honors and distinctions of the jury as the summa cum laude graduate.
Eric Giaretto, Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Eric spearheads MASA’s marketing and communications strategy and initiatives. With the goal of bringing the unique story of MASA to the global market, Eric is focused on developing and communicating the company’s brand identity, values and product promise. With a twenty-five year track-record of brand image and awareness building in multicultural, business-to-business and high-tech environments, Eric brings to MASA extensive marketing and communications management experience gained within major international communications agencies (Lintas, Hakuhodo, Publicis), and innovative telecommunications leaders (Eutelsat, Alcatel-Lucent). Eric holds a Statistician and Economist degree from the French National Advanced College for Statistics and Economics (ENSAE), and a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences from the Paris Dauphine University.