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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Corozant Technologies, home of the Digital Executive podcast. Do you work in emerging tech, working on something innovative, maybe an entrepreneur? Apply to be a guest at www.corozant.com forward slash brand. Welcome to the Digital Executive. Today's guest is Alexander Mangione.
Alexander Mangillon is a visionary leader and socially responsible entrepreneur with over 25 years of extensive experience in the marine industry. As the co-founder and CEO of Vision Marine Technologies, Alexander has been the driving force in the transition towards sustainable boating by leveraging his deep expertise in electrification and advanced battery technology.
He currently oversees the entire lifecycle of the company's flagship innovations, specifically spearheading the design, manufacturing, and production of the groundbreaking e-motion technology and high-performance electric boats.
Chapter 2: What experiences shaped Alexandre Mongeon's journey to electric boating?
His leadership ensures that the company remains at the forefront of marine innovation while maintaining a commitment to environmental stewardship. Well, good afternoon, Alex. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me today. Absolutely, my friend. I appreciate it. And you're hailing out of Delray, Florida today. I'm in Kansas City.
So I appreciate you traversing time zones and calendars to get here. And that just makes my day. So thank you. And Alex, let's jump into your first question here. You've spent more than 25 years in the marine industry, from competitive speedboat racing to leading Vision Marine Technologies. What experiences shaped your journey to become a pioneer in electric boating? There's a few of them.
One of the most important ones was meeting Ian Bruce, Olympic sailor, and designing my first electric boat back then in 2014. doing water sport in the back of that boat at 40 miles per hour. And lately, I also met Roger Moore in 2016, founder of Nautical Ventures. And he was showing me all the marine retail space were. So meeting Ian Bruce, Roger Moore.
And then working with McLaren engineering and testing for two years in a row, our technology from 2021 to 2023 was something very important for us. And lately we did the world fastest electric boat with Sean Torrente, world champion in the F1. So all those, I would say past 15, 16 years of work were very important for me. So this is where most of the knowledge became very important for me.
Thank you. I appreciate that. And you do have quite a bit of experience in this space. You know, you talked about Olympic boating and sailing. You worked with McLaren, which is a big deal. Obviously, they're in this sports space. But having the world's fastest electric boat is obviously a big feat. We we know how boating is. Generally, it's combustion engines.
But I like how you're taking not only electric technology, but you're using it in the racing world as well. So thank you for that backstory. Alex, Vision Marine Technologies is driving the transition to innovative boating. What inspired you to focus on electrification in any industry traditionally dominated by combustion engines?
Electrification for us was not a concept. It was a commercial opportunities that was actually we were already executing on back then by building smaller electric boats doing six, seven miles per hour. We saw early that the marine industry was behind and customers were expecting the market to move faster.
The low maintenance solution and the cap with the demand was already there, but the lack of high performance propulsion system were not there. So we saw the opportunity as early as 2015 for the market there by replacing slowly the combustion engine by the year 2030, 2035. So we were the early adopter back then. That's what. That was what's motivating us.
So obviously there was a little bit of a demand there, as you said. And I do remember some smaller, like in the fishing industry, a lot of small type of electric motors. Obviously, there is a demand for doing much more as far as recreational activities. And in your case, you're making boats that break records for its class. So I appreciate what you're doing there to bring this to market.
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