Véronique PEQUIGNAT

Véronique currently holds the position of Head of international actions in the Inward investment team “Invest in Grenoble Alpes” at Greater Grenoble.
She is in charge of implementing and developing strategies for attracting international investments, talents and companies into the Grenoble ecosystem. She coordinates as well a team of international consultants based in the US, Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Her expertise is especially focused on supporting companies in the field of Micro-Nanoelectronics, IoT or Artificial Intelligence and their application domains. She collaborates on a regular basis with
French national Digital Cluster Minalogic and was highly instrumental in the implementation of the Silicon Europe transnational cluster collaboration from 2012 on, as well as the international cooperation with other non-European digital clusters (Taiwan, US).

She is a very active member of the Digital community of Grenoble and the French Tech initiative French Tech in the Alps, and supports the implementation of French Tech visa entrepreneurs. She has been coordinating the launch of the FAISE (French Alps International Soft-landing Exchange) program supporting soft-landing actions for the internationalization of startups from British Columbia, Taiwan and the French Alps, along with other local and international stakeholders, thus re-enforcing the efficiency of collaboration between innovative Ecosystems. Véronique graduated in 1983 with a degree in Political Science from Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Grenoble, and in 1984 with a Master’s in information and communication techniques at Science Po Paris.

She has as well a university experience in the US (Caroll College, Wisconsin).