Sylvie Menezo is CEO of SCINTIL Photonics, which she founded in November 2018 after being Laureate of the ILAB contest from BPIfrance. SCINTIL exploits a disruptive integrated circuit technology (III-V on Silicon Photonics technology) developed at CEA-Leti, in the domains of optical communications and sensing applications. Before founding SCINTIL, Menezo managed the Silicon Photonics Lab (2012-2014) and the Business Development activities in integrated photonics (2014-2017) at CEA-Leti (Grenoble). She previously worked at NZAT (Boston), Alcatel (Marcoussis), and at Sercel-Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (Nantes and Houston),doing or managing product development teams or product lines. She holds an Engineering degree from INSA Lyon (1997), a Ph.D from Centre National d’Etude des Télécommunications (1999, Bagneux) and a Part Time Executive MBA from Audencia Nantes (2007).