Prophesee Appoints Jean Ferré as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Event-based Vision Sensing Pioneer in Next Stage of Growth
PARIS, Dec 23, 2025
Prophesee, a pioneer and global leader in event-based vision technology, today announced the appointment of Jean Ferré as Chief Executive Officer. He has been designated by the board to succeed Luca Verre, Prophesee’s co-founder and former CEO, who is leaving the company.
This leadership transition comes as the company enters a new phase of commercialization and growth, building on a strong technological and organizational foundation and welcoming new investors. The company is sharpening its near-term focus on sectors with high value use cases demonstrating today the strongest demand and adoption momentum such as security, defense and aerospace, as well as industrial automation. Prophesee will continue to support volume vision-enabled applications markets where it has achieved initial commercial success such as IoT, AR/VR, consumer electronics.
Ferré brings 30 years of international experience in product marketing, business strategy and data-driven growth across cloud, data, electronics, and enterprise software. He has held leadership and P&L roles at major companies — including Microsoft and Thales — and co-founded and was CEO of Sinequa who pioneered generative-AI applications for manufacturing and healthcare. He brings a strong experience in deep tech product market fit as well as in ecosystem and strategic partnerships development. He holds a Master of Science from the Paris-based École Polytechnique, as well as from Les Mines Paris Tech.
As CEO, Ferré targets a refined, product-centric, customer-oriented strategy based on the company’s proven Metavision® platform, positioning Prophesee AI-powered sensing solutions for high growth market requirements. The company product focus is on application areas where Prophesee’s event-based vision technology has already proven immediate and measurable value, on use cases where Prophesee AI enabled event-based vision’s advantages such as ultra-low latency, high dynamic range, and power efficiency are critical and can be combined with industry existing solutions.
Jean Ferré – CEO of Prophesee
Ferre’s background, that includes building AI solution for industrial companies, or Unmanned Traffic Management cloud-based platforms, will be especially important as the company’s fast growing opportunities include industrial automation, defense, aerospace and security markets. Prophesee’s sensing solutions have already demonstrated superior performances in applications such as drone detection and tracking systems, surveillance, situational awareness, and real-time industrial monitoring, high speed counting, preventative maintenance and robot control. In those use cases, Prophesee unlocks fundamental limitations faced by conventional frame-based vision systems.
“Prophesee has an extraordinary technology and a differentiated position in the vision ecosystem,” said Ferré, “I am honored to take over from Luca, and to build on the work of the whole team and co-founders. The hard part of industrializing the science and developing the ecosystem is done, the company can enter into its next phase which includes high value vertical applications, and scaling on AI where our sensors bring unique datasets to train next generation models. Together with our ecosystem of partners, our focus will be to deliver integrated sensor, software, and machine-learning solutions that address government and business critical needs in high-impact vertical markets such as drone detection, robot and industry edge cases. We will pursue our long-term innovation roadmap that includes applications in science, health and consumer applications.”
Building on a strong foundation
Since its founding in 2013, Prophesee has established event-based vision as a new category in machine vision. Prophesee developed its core neuromorphic sensing technology, defined its early commercialization strategy, attracted investment from a diverse group of global backers, and built a world-class, international team and developer community numbering more than 20,000 that continues to shape the company’s products and ecosystem.
“Jean takes over a solid operation that is poised for growth, and we are confident in his ability to execute a strategy that will scale Prophesee to the next level,” said Bernard Gilly, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prophesee. “On behalf of the Board, I would like to warmly thank Luca for his contributions to Prophesee’s success.”
ABOUT PROPHESEE
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. The company developed a breakthrough event-based vision approach to machine vision that enables dramatic reductions in power consumption, latency, and data processing requirements. By mimicking how the human eye and brain work, Prophesee’s patented Metavision® sensors and algorithms reveal information that is invisible to traditional frame-based sensors.
Prophesee’s technology is transforming applications across industrial automation, aerospace and defense, autonomous systems, IoT, AR/VR, and mobile. Headquartered in Paris, Prophesee has offices in Grenoble, Shanghai.
For more information, visit www.prophesee.ai
