Jean-Marc Ferrier

After initially studying law (Master's degree in business law), and completed his education with degrees in strategic marketing (ISG and ESSEC) and modern languages, Jean-Marc FERRIER has spent his entire career in the medical device industry. He spent the first twenty years of his career working for multinational medtech companies, including 12 years at ZIMMER, the world leader in orthopedics, where he held executive management and international strategic marketing positions. In 2005, he left the world of multinational companies to join the world of innovation, startups, and public-private partnerships. In 2005, he and three partners founded GRAFTYS, a company that develops implantable bone tissue engineering products that are marketed worldwide, particularly in the US market. After leaving GRAFTYS in 2017, he began supporting innovative companies in southeastern France through his consulting firm, UPSTREAM, which allowed him to become more involved in the regional innovation ecosystem and strengthen his ties with the regional TTO of Aix-Marseille University (SATT Sud-Est). It was in this context that he met Viktor JIRSA at the end of 2019 and was asked to take charge of the project to commercialize the virtual brain technology invented by Viktor JIRSA through the creation of a startup. VB-Tech was founded in August 2021 by Viktor JIRSA (main shareholder and CSO) and Jean-Marc FERRIER (CEO) and is currently in a fundraising phase to accelerate market access for the first technologies developed by the company.