CEO & Member of the Supervisory Board – is a business executive and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and advanced process-control. He is the CEO and co-founder of POLLEN Metrology, the first smart process-control software company powered by a revolutionary technology based on deep learning and data fusion. Prior co-founding POLLEN, Johann was assignee at IBM (NY) where he has jointly developed new nanometrology methodologies for sub-30nm node technologies. He has introduced the hybrid metrology concept to get the best from each complementary characterization technique. Before that, he was a researcher and project manager at CEA/LETI institute in the field of nanometrology for semiconductor industry. He has published more than 70 papers and gave numerous invited talks at international conferences and has been granted nine patents. Johann holds a PhD degree in plasma physics applied to advanced semiconductor CMOS gate etching from University Grenoble Alpes and an engineering degree in electronics and plasmas physics from Polytech Orleans.

Richard has joined Pollen in 2019, he oversees the developments of mainstream products portfolio in accordance with clients needs and team resources. In 2023, he will evolve into a role of program and business development manager.  Graduated as engineer in Semiconductors and Opto-electronic, he worked in the Philips Company for 18 years, as project officer (Philips Semiconductors, representative for French and European actions related to the semiconductor R&D), and as software project leader (Consumer Electronic in advanced embedded software for cable, terrestrial, satellite TV products). His project expertise was asked for Eureka, ANR and French Pôles de Compétitivité (Minalogic, Imaginove). He also worked for 3 years to help innovative SMEs to find public and private partners (Region Rhone-Alpes). During 5 years, he coordinated the Maths labs-Enterprises partnerships in France (CNRS-AMIES agency).

Hervé Ozdoba joined the Pollen team in 2019 as Technical Leader C++. He was involved in strengthening the team of developers and in the design of the algorithm library dedicated to metrology, defectivity and process optimization. Subsequently, Hervé initiated and contributed to the implementation of the software development kit (SDK) of the Smart3 platform allowing users to extend the functionality of the product by adding external modules in Python or C++. Today, vice-president in charge of software engineering, Hervé is responsible for the backend, frontend and algorithmic developer teams as well as the Devops/IT team. He holds an engineering degree in mathematical and mechanical modeling from Enseirb Matmeca.

Sergio Martinez has joined Pollen in 2016 as a data scientist. He has been actively involved in developing machine learning algorithms that are integrated into Smart3 product portfolio. After managing several research projects, Sergio became Director for Research and Application from 2020 to 2022. Now Sergio is Vice President of Technology to manage the teams in charge of Research, Application, Support and Quality Assurance. He was laureated with the prestigious scholarship Erasmus Mundus for a Master Degree in Computer Vision and Robotics. He holds a Ph.D. in Life and Health Sciences from the University Paris-Saclay, focusing on using machine learning to detect early forms of cancer in the stomach.