Mauna Kea Technologies SA announces the appointment of Sacha Loiseau, Founder and current Chairman of the Board of Mauna Kea Technologies, to serve also as Chief Executive Officer, replacing interim CEO Nicolas Bouvier effective immediately. Mr. Sacha Loiseau will thus concurrently hold the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mauna Kea Technologies. A graduate of École Polytechnique and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Sacha Loiseau co-founded Mauna Kea Technologies and served as its CEO for more than 18 years, taking the company public in July 2011 on Euronext.

He has served as Mauna Kea Technologies Chairman of the Board of Directors since October 2018. In addition, Sacha holds other non-executive roles in leading medtech startups: he is Chairman of the Board of Therapixel and SeqOne Genomics, Board Member at Lifen, Gleamer and MDoloris. Sacha is also a Venture Partner with Elaia, a top tier DeepTech European Venture Capital firm.