Valeo Retiree Eric Blusseau Collects Plaudits

After the announcement of his retirement, Eric Blusseau is receiving a lot of congratulations for his wonderful career: Hector Fratty, his boss at Bobigny over decades, said: “I congratulate you, Eric for your wonderful job done in halogen projectors; in complex shape reflectors which was the greatest innovation of Valeo; in Xenon, and LED before…

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Hector Fratty

Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.