Martial Montrichard is a founder of Metavonics, the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) technology company with the mission to push the state of the art.

An aficionado of complex platforms, Martial has built his career around the R&D and certification of open modular architecture, more specifically on IMA systems. He has extensive hands-on experience in all existing commercial IMA platforms. Moreover, he has participated in the elaboration of the IMA industrial standards as well as major European and French collaborative research programs.

Martial shares regularly his open architecture insights on expert forums such as DASC and provides open architecture training sessions (including to Airworthiness Authorities).