2023-10-24 06:10:00
Innovator
Matthieu Desbois-Renaudin likes to invent. While studying in engineering school at INSA Lyon, on exchange at McGill University in Canada, at the age of 21, he co-constructed a solar water pump system for isolated homes in Africa. Then in 2007, following going through innovation laboratories for Valeo, he patented a hydraulic power transmission system for construction equipment at Bosch Offroad Construction, making it possible to save 5% of energy consumption. In 2018, he returned to the laboratory, this time at the CEA, but frustrated at not seeing his prototypes come to fruition, he decided to launch into entrepreneurship, to market his own patented battery with immersion cooling. Wattalps was born.
Eco
He built his commitment to the environment as a teenager when he read a Science & Vie junior on energy. “I then understood that the system was limited and that it was necessary to find substitutes,” he explains. With his driving license in hand, in 1995, he sought at all costs the car that consumed the least possible fuel. “It was a Citroën AX!” he remembers, amused. His commitment to the environment was built little by little, and was amplified when he met his wife. “I am committed, but she is much more committed. She’s the one who pushed me in the direction of respecting the environment.” Today, they live with their four children surrounded by nature, in a mountain village.
Altruistic
Faced very early on with difficult trials, with the loss of his sister and his father, he quickly becomes aware of the fragility and precious nature of life. “Gradually, this pushed me to become more and more interested in our environment and ecological issues,” he explains. But there is no question for him to leave anyone behind: “I want to help create a sustainable world in which we can all live decently.” Whether it is the most precarious in France or developing countries. “My ambition is to serve the collective!”
Pragmatic
Whether renovating their home or innovating at work, what entrepreneurs love is working with their hands. A love of manual work that was passed on to him by his grandfather, who lent him his tools for tinkering. “It is in this concrete reality on the ground that I find the most relevant solutions!” And it also needs this concreteness in its ecological commitment: “environmental constraints are also an opportunity for France to regain its industrial sovereignty”. For him, who has experienced deindustrialization since the Paris region, France has lost enormous know-how that can be found with the ecological transition. “For me, ecology is both a planetary and economic necessity! Otherwise, we will pay dearly for it…”
Sporty
Football in the schoolyard, volleyball, basketball, then pole vaulting, climbing, skiing, and many others today… It is in sport that Matthieu Desbois-Renaudin develops his spirit of team. “Collective ambition is important and I understand the mechanisms that create collective performance,” he explains. A field apprenticeship that he puts into practice today at Wattalps. “The search for joint solutions makes decisions more solid,” he comments.
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