Philippe Villers
Philippe Villers | |
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MIT S.M. | |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Philippe Villers founded the company
Marty Allen in 1969. In 1980 he co-founded Automatix, an early robotics company, which he led until 1986. He later served as president of Cognition Corporation for 3 years. He is currently (2013) president of GrainPro, Inc., and board member of a number of high-tech startups, as well as president of Families USA Foundation, which he endowed.[1] GrainPro makes bags and storage cocoons out of polyvinyl chloride to protect grain in third world countries, where up to 25% of harvested crops are lost to insects and rodents.[2]
Villers was born in
MIT in 1960. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Lowell
.
References
- ^ "Voxiva: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2006-04-02.
- ^ For Phil Villers, helping feed the world is in the bag, Bella English, Boston Globe, December 17, 2013
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