Alain is the world sailing speed record holder at over 50 knots on L’Hydroptère. He has been flying boats for over 30 years. He was the creator of Seabubbles, a proof of concept of electric hydrofoil shuttle; he is developing in parallel e-nemo, a battery powered shuttle and THE JET, hydrogen powered.

Antoine was Admiral in the French Navy. As General manager of Magforce International, he has developed and exported patrol boats in African countries. Support of Alain Thebault’s projects from the beginning, he is the COO of Fly-Box.

Christian has managed communication agencies in Paris. He has worked on communications for many clients, aeronautics and maritime, such as Dassault Aviation, CMA-CGM or Naval Group.

After working  for the construction of few racing sailing boats such as Volvo Ocean race and America’s cup boat, Aurélien is the managing director of the naval architecture office Butchesign since 2010. Butchdesign is based in the shipyard of La Ciotat, heart of the yacht refit industry.

Laurent was the Technical Director of BlueSolutions, the Bolloré Group’s battery and mobility development entity.

During 15 years, he has developed numerous projects: development and optimization of the « solid state » LMP® battery, deployment of 7 car-sharing systems around the world, design of electric boats and stationary shelters for storage energy and most recently the design and creation of the 100% electric Bluebus 12m and 6m, as well as a robotic platform.

Passionate about sailing, Bertrand participated in the Whitbread in 1981 with Pierre Fehlmann while obtaining his mechanical engineering degree at the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne, then qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics with Rainer Fröhlich in the Flying Dutchman class and finished in 13th place.In 1984, he founded the company Décision SA in which he worked closely with Ernesto Bertarelli to create the Alinghi boat, Bertrand Piccard’s Solar Impulse plane and participate in the creation of parts of Alain’s Hydroptère.

Tal is a lawyer based in Geneva, Switzerland. He concentrates on corporate law, contracts and IP issues.

Pierre is in charge of the assembly of Fly-Box Compact. He has managed assembly workshops at Dassault Aviation and on two editions of the America’s Cup.

2 times Winner of the America’s Cup with Oracle Team USA. As a systems and hydraulic expert, he has led the Mechatronic Department for American Magic, Challenger for the 37^th America’s Cup. For the last 20 years he’s been designing cutting edge systems that succeeded straight out of the box.

Engineer graduated from Polytechnique School of Paris, Davy is an expert in hydrodynamic aspects and flying control systems. He was a crew member of Alain’s Hydroptère when it broke the world speed record of 51 knots in 2009. He was performance engineer in Emirates Team New Zealand and then part of the design team at Luna Rossa Challenge during the last America’s Cup.

Yorick was involved in major hydrogen infrastructure projects in Germany and Switzerland since 2015. He developed a strong technical background and an extensive network in the field of electric mobility. As a scientist, he successfully developed innovative stationary energy systems including batteries and hydrogen

Hubert Girault is Emeritus Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he has thought for 30 years physical and analytical electrochemistry and where he directed Electromobilis, a scientific demonstrator for energy storage and hydrogen mobility. He is now a Director of H2Valais, and a member of the scientific board of Naval Group (Fr) and GreenGT (CH).