Frédéric Dot is Senior Business Development Executive Defense & Security for Dassault Systèmes.

He is currently in charge of developing the company’s activities worldwide and is based at Dassault Systèmes’ world headquarters near Paris, France.

Frédéric began his career as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force in 1993, flying the Mirage 2000 for air defence and ground attack missions. He was engaged in Iraq in 1996 and 1997.

He then played an active role in the operational conversion of the Rafale for the French Air Force and was engaged in Afghanistan in 2009. He is still active as a reserve officer. He is recognized as a Human Factor and Flight Risk Management expert.

Frédéric has solid experience as a fighter pilot instructor with specific skills in defining virtual training processes.

He graduated from the Strasbourg Business School in France in 2011 with an Executive MBA
In “Strategic Marketing in a Connected World”.

He received the most prestigious decoration in France, the “Legion of Honor”, in 2011 from the chief of the Strategic Air Force (General Paul Fouilland) with a total to his credit of more than 3,500 hours as a pilot.

Frédéric Dot and his wife Szabina currently live in Versailles, France and have 2 daughters.

Engineer, head of aircraft and missile design. Born 6.11.1926, Rouen (Seine-Maritime). Ecole Polytechnique 1946. Joined Avions Marcel Dassault (Saint-Cloud) in 1950 as a prototype designer for the Avions Marcel Dassault. He then led the design of the Ouragan 30L with lateral air inlets, then seconded the design of the company’s first hang glider (MD 550-01 Mirage I) with mixed rocket and engine propulsion.

Then directs the prototype studies of the Mirage III family that are directly derived from it.

Represents manufacturers in the establishment of JAR 25 regulations.

Knight of the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit.

Excerpt from “Les Français du ciel” (2005), edited by Lucien ROBINEAU