SEMICON Europa 2016

Beat De Coi
CEO
ESPROS Photonics AG, Executive Management


Beat De Coi is the founder of the CEDES Group, established in 1986. The company designs and manufactures optoelectronic devices, e.g. elevator light curtains. De Coi sold CEDES in the year 2016, after 30 years successful business development from a garage company to an international group of companies, to the Swedish ASSA ABLOY Group. In autumn 2006, De Coi founded the company ESPROS Photonics Corporation in Switzerland. ESPROS does fundamental semiconductor research and development and manufactures high performance imagers. In 1998, De Coi became Entrepreneur of the Year in Switzerland. In 1999, he was awarded as the most innovative entrepreneur in the Canton Graubunden. In 2004, he won the «European ICT-Grand Prize», which is the most distinguished prize for innovative products and services in the field of ICT because of his pioneering research in the field of time-of-flight cameras. De Coi was nominated with ESPROS for the 2015 Prism Award, the most prestigious award in the photonics industry. De Coi helds an engineering degree in electronics and is member of the board of the University of Applied Sciences in Chur, member of IEEE, IAEE and member of the committee of the Swissmem Photonics Group.

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