Yann LeFaou is Associate Director for Microchip’s touch and gesture business unit. In this role, LeFaou leads a team developing capacitive touch technologies and also drives the company’s Machine learning (ML) initiative for microcontrollers and microprocessors. He has held a series of successive technical and marketing roles at Microchip, including leading the company’s global marketing activities of capacitive touch, human machine interface and home appliance technology. LeFaou holds a degree from ESME Sudria in France.