A team of world-class experts

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.

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.

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.

Grew up in Japan, HEC with 20 years in Finance on the Japanese and Asian markets with Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and UBS. Fluent in French, Italian and English, but also with a good level in Japanese, Spanish and Dutch, Guillaume is convinced that only innovation can lead to a sustainable world. His job is to help create the business model of Fly-Box.

2 times Winner of the America’s Cup with Oracle Team USA. As a systems and hydraulic expert, for his 8th America’s Cup, he is leading the Mechatronic Department for American Magic, Challenger for the 37th America’s Cup. For the last 20 years he’s been designing cutting edge systems that succeeded straight out of the box. His international experience and background will be an additional strength to the group.

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).

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

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 . Our work field extends from modifications of Mega yacht to the conception of smaller boats such as E Nemo.

Christian is the design director of the Babel agency in Paris. He accompanies Alain on his various projects: Fly-Box, e-nemo and THE JET. He has worked on the brands of many aeronautical and maritime customers such as Dassault Aviation, CMA-CGM or Naval Group.

Pierre was a mechanic at the Dassault Aviation Flight Test Center. He took part in 4 editions of the America’s Cup and holds the world sailing speed record on l’Hydroptere with Alain. He was also technical manager of the Mousetrap maxi catamaran around the world.