Dipl.ing. EPFZ, MBA IMD, previously Chairman of Tissot Watch Company, member of the executive board of Omega & Tissot group (SSIH). As President of the Tissot Economic Foundation, and Founder of companies applying the Tissot know-how into new industries, he is carrying on the secular family concern for people in identifying the watchmaker’s unique talents to transfer them into high challenging life saving medical devices. Such companies are Precimed (first medtech company producing pacemakers in the watch region, in partnership with Hofman La Roche, and taken over by Intermedics), Medos (first programmable hydrocephalic valve for the treatment of hydrocephalia, taken over by Johnson & Johnson), and now Tissot Medical Research. He chaired the Neuchatel state commission for economic promotion and was an executive board member of the Swiss Academy of engineering as well as the president of CAETS, (international council of academies of engineering, in Washington D.C.). Luc Tissot chaired the 10th CAETS international convocation in Zurich (1993).