Bruno Lhopiteau

Ides AB is a Swedish group supplying engineering tools based on open standards. Ides' industry-focused solutions are optimized for plant engineering from EPC (Engineering Procurement Construction) to OO (Owner Operator). The best-known product is electrical engineering tool elMaster. Setup the Chinese operation, first contracts with power plants and engineering firms.

Siveco is the number one CMMS supplier in Europe and China's largest maintenance consultancy. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", we assist plants/facilities managers in optimizing the utilization of their assets and reducing operation costs, while improving safety and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Supplier of Condition Monitoring Systems for the Chinese power generation industry. I helped start the business in 2002, brokered a distribution agreement with SPM Instruments, a leading global supplier of vibration analysis systems and was officially on the board for a while. A dozen large power plants have installed our systems.

Public-listed supplier of management applications targeting asset-intensive industries. The division included a JV in China (40+ employees, an operation I founded in 2000 and grew to number one market position in 2003), a business unit in India, as well as staff (sales and consulting) and partners in 8 countries across the Asia Pacific region.

A joint-venture of the same company, IFS, and UFSOFT, the largest Chinese supplier of ERP systems. The JV took over the activities of my "Asset Intensive Industries" division I founded in China. We established the company as one of the group's highest profile operation. A number of prestigious projects were signed, including the world's largest hydropower plant (the largest contract ever for both IFS and UFSOFT in Asia).

Chinese subsidiary of the same company, IFS. In charge of the 'Asset Intensive Industry' business unit, which I started, signing major deals with Chinese utilities in the first year. In 2001, our turnover was equivalent to our main competitor, representing a significant share of the company's business in Asia.

Consulting activities in the asset management marketplace and support for newly setup IFS operations in various Asian countries. I initiated a sales focus on major utility and infrastructure bids, establishing consortia with leading Asian engineering firms to work on the first multimillion-dollar bids for IFS in Asia Pacific. Support for the establishment of the company in China.

Business support services for French companies dealing with infrastructure projects in Singapore (metro) and, to a lesser extent, Southeast Asia.

World leader in bearings. Project manager for maintenance improvement project in one of the group's largest plant, in Goteborg, Sweden.