Véronique Newland (born 14 May 1965) is a French engineer specializing in optronics. She is the CEO of New Vision Technologies, which develops industrial and scientific vision projects. In 2013, she received the
Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize in the women's business career category. She has been a member of the board of directors of the French association of photonic optics since September 2016.
Biography
Newland earned her baccalaureate in mathematics and natural sciences, and then took jobs as a supermarket cashier, salesperson and bank employee where she observed the different ways that technology was impacting the banking industry and customer interactions. She was particularly interested in the introduction of
automatic teller machines
An automated teller machine (ATM) or cash machine (in British English) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, fun ...
(ATMs) and the development of other computing systems to serve bank customers. She enrolled in a DUT program in computer science to become a programmer analyst
and in 1989, Newland passed her DUT in computer science at the IUT de Villetaneuse at the
University of Paris-XIII.
She was hired by a company that created analog and digital measurement systems. There she was introduced to the science of how physical phenomena could be transformed into electrical signals, including the collection, processing, restitution and analysis of data. To further explore the subject, she started on a work-study program to become an optronics engineer, which is a combination of optics, computer science and electronics.
She enrolled at the Polytechnic School of
Paris-Sud University
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...
in 1994 and finished her engineering degree in 1996 in
optronics
Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radiatio ...
.
After her employer's company was dissolved, Newland created her own firm in 2002 called NEW VISION Technologies, to specialize in optical measurement and control for both industrial and scientific projects. As the company's CEO, she guides applications that have ranged from optimizing the industrial cutting of salmon slices to monitoring the position of French RER rail lines.
In an effort to encourage more women to pursue careers in science, Newland appears at schools to discuss her tasks as both an engineer and a company founder. In 2011, her advocacy work was featured in the ''SAN du Val Maubuée'' newspaper on the theme of women in business, which was the same subject for which she received an Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize in 2013.
References
External links
* Daily Motion, interview, in French: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17f33w
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1965 births
French engineers
French women
20th-century French engineers
20th-century French women
21st-century French engineers
French business executives
21st-century French businesswomen
21st-century French businesspeople
Living people