Thomas Boudrot

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Vice President, EMEA Sales at Altera

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, France

Overview

As Vice President of EMEA Sales at Altera, Thomas Boudrot leverages over 30 years of semiconductor industry experience from roles at Kandou AI, AMD, and Xilinx. He excels in driving growth for AI, data center, and communications solutions, supported by his Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Science from ESCPI.

There is no publicly available information about his personal life.

He is a vocal proponent for adopting cutting-edge technologies, actively promoting Alteras Agilex FPGAs and their support for next-generation LPDDR5/DDR5 memory standards.

Personality Overview

Price-Sensitive

Value Seeker

Not Easily Convinced

While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters.  They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions.

Topics They Care About

AI & Edge Computing
Actively promotes Altera products that are "Designed with #AI in mind" and showcases the company's robotics and edge AI demonstrations at major industry events like Embedded World.
FPGA & SoC Technology
Highlights the technical capabilities of Altera's Agilex FPGAs and SoCs, including their advanced support for the latest LPDDR5/DDR5 memory, which are already in mass production.
EMEA Market Growth
His career is focused on strategic sales and business development to expand the market for high-tech solutions within the EMEA region, particularly for AI and data centers.

Media Appearances

Thomas has no verified media appearances

Work History

9-2025
Vice President, EMEA Sales at Altera
4-2023 - 9-2025
Vice President Sales and Business Development at Kandou AI
2-2022 - 4-2023
Sr. Director of EMEA Sales, Data Center and Communications - Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD
2-2020 - 4-2023
Sr. Director, EMEA Data Center Sales - Global Datacenter BU at Xilinx
7-2019 - 4-2023
Sr. Director Business Development at Xilinx

Education

1992 - 1997
Master of Electronics and Computer Science from ESCPI - Ecole Superieure de Conception et Production Industrielle

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Insights For Selling To Thomas

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Back up any claims with data and numbers
  • Tell them that you will come back if you don’t have a good answer for a question
  • Share as much information as possible regarding your product

DONT's

  • Don’t try to be too friendly or informal with them
  • Don’t depend too much on anecdotal evidence, it reduces their confidence
  • Avoid phrases like ‘do not worry about’, ‘no one compares to’ etc.

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Thomas is

  • Ensuring that the product delivers ROI, cost-effective pricing and process compliance are very important for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Thomas

  • It doesn’t come naturally to them but they can say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Thomas move?

  • If they have the information that they need, they can move fast at making their decisions.
  • Can Thomas take some risk or not?

  • They can take risk if they are convinced that they have analyzed the circumstances well.


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