Dorothee Martin is External Venture Manager at Saint-Gobain, in the NOVA group which identifies and evaluates start-up companies for potential partnerships with Saint-Gobain business units. Focus areas for the External Venturing group include new products and technologies related to the three pillars of growth for Saint-Gobain: Building Construction, Energy and Environment.
Dorothee Martin has joined Saint-Gobain in 1997 as a Research Engineer in Saint-Gobain Recherche (Paris area). She has held various management and business development positions within the Saint-Gobain R&D organization and at Eurokera (Greenville, SC). She took her current position in August 2011 and is hosted in the US Corporate R&D Center of Saint-Gobain (Northboro, MA). She has a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris (Mines Paris Tech, 1993), and a PhD in Solid State Physics from Orsay University (1998).