Yves Legrand is the global vertical marketing director for Industrial Automation and Robotics at Freescale Semiconductor. He is based in France and has spent his professional career between Toulouse and the USA where he worked for Motorola Semiconductor and Freescale in Phoenix and Chicago. His marketing expertise ranges from wireless and consumer semiconductor markets and applications to green chargers and wireless charging systems. He has an EE masters from Grenoble INPG in France and master in Industrial and System Engineering from San Jose State University, CA.