Frédéric Caillaud joined L'Oréal in 1994 as Director of the Licensing and Business Development Department in charge of negotiating alliances, licensing and business development opportunities. Prior to joining L'Oréal, he spent seven years working as Licensing and Business Development Director for Fournier Pharma following 4 years as Director of a genetic engineering Dpt for Rhône-Poulenc Pharma.
Frédéric Caillaud is a medical doctor and received a Ph. D. in Genetic engineering from the Pasteur Institute of Paris. He is a postgraduate in Strategic Management from HEC School of Management and is one of the first certified licensing professional (CLP).
He is regularly giving lectures and courses (more than one hundred) related to licensing matters, patent monetization, patent analytics and rating systems in Europe, USA and Japan. He has created a Licensing course dedicated to Licensing Executives 5 years ago which is a great success.
He is an advisor to several entities with respect to Patent monetization and patent rating. He has created an international Club whose aim is the evaluation of the new tools that are emerging in order to better analyze, map and rate patents.