Alain Rossmann

Alain Rossmann
Alma mater	École Polytechnique, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Stanford University
Occupation	Engineer, entrepreneur, executive
Spouse(s)	Joanna Hoffman

Alain Simon Rossmann (born 1956) is a serial entrepreneur who was a member of the early Apple Macintosh team and who went on to found or co-found nine startups, of which three went public (Radius, C-Cube Microsystems, Unwired Planet), three were acquired (EO by AT&T, Vudu by Walmart, PSS Systems by IBM), and two were dissolved (Zonbu, Klip). The ninth is his current company, Machinify.

In 1979, Rossman graduated from École Polytechnique with a BS in Math & Physics. He completed an MS in Civil Engineering at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1981. Moving to the USA, he received an MBA from Stanford University in 1983.

Rossmann was Head Evangelist at the Macintosh division of Apple Computer from 1983 to 1986. He worked with Joanna Hoffman and the couple subsequently married.

Next, he founded Radius, a company that built Macintosh peripherals. He was VP of Marketing and Sales from 1986 to 1989. Its IPO was in 1990.

He was VP of Operations of C-Cube Microsystems, a leading developer of MPEG integrated circuits, from 1989 to 1992. Its IPO was in 1994. It was acquired by LSI Logic in 2001.

Moving into pen computing, Rossman was CEO of EO from 1992 to 1994. It built and marketed the EO Personal Communicator. It was acquired by AT&T in 1993. With his colleague Celeste Baranski, he won the Discover Award from Discover Magazine in 1993 for this product.

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