About

Pierre Roy is a Senior Engineer in plastic technology with over 35 years in the medical device industry. Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Akrivision Technologies, he has led and delivered projects across a wide range of medical fields, including ophthalmology and vascular conditions. He has developed many medical devices in anaesthesia, neonatology, ocular drug delivery and diagnosis, as an inventor or co-inventor of more than 25 patents on medical devices.

Previously, he was Technical Director of Vygon, a manufacturer of catheters, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Eyegate Pharmaceuticals, developing an ocular drug delivery device, Founder of Hexamed, providing medical device design and development, consulting services and project management, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OPIA Technologies, developing and marketing proprietary diagnosis medical devices for ophthalmology.