Quiconnect

Marc Rozier

Chief Technology Officer

Marc Rozier is Quiconnect’s chief technology officer (CTO).  An expert in systems software and distributed systems with a track record of innovation, he is responsible for setting the overall technical direction of the company, leading and managing technical staff, acting as liaison between the executive, sales and engineering teams and organising technical collaboration with partner companies.

Marc Rozier has over 20 years experience working in the IT industry and was co-founder and vice president of engineering at Chorus Systems, a French-based company established in 1986 which created microkernel technology to allow different operating systems to run concurrently on the same server hardware. A precursor to what is commonly known today as virtualisation technology, Chorus was the first company to offer the ability for a Java enabled real-time operating system to utilise servers also running UNIX and LINUX, thereby using IT resources to best effect.  Also embedded into devices, Chorus was used by companies such as Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, Nokia and Nortel to build the main telecoms infrastructure to enable reliable 3G-based mobile phone services to be delivered to operators.

Rozier was instrumental in growing Chorus to a company employing 45 engineers with revenues of $12 million which Sun Microsystems bought in 1997.   This was to enable it to develop Java-based solutions for the embedded systems market, as well as capitalise on Chorus’ presence in the telecoms infrastructure market to create sales opportunities for Sun products and solutions.

Marc Rozier worked for Sun for nearly 10 years managing various product engineering departments, ranging from high availability clustering platforms for the telecoms industry, to data centre service management systems. In charge of large, cross functional teams with responsibility for the delivery of multiple software product releases, he also defined product roll out and technical strategy in close collaboration with Sun’s marketing department and CTO. 

Marc Rozier has a PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and a MSc in Engineering and Computer Science from The École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble , France.