Sylvain Collot was born in France.

In 1999, he joined Melexis Belgium as product engineer. He moved in 2005 to manage the team of product engineers in Melexis Bulgaria, before taking over the role of Manufacturing Manager in 2007. He became Site Manager of the company’s Bulgarian entity by early 2013  and since 2019, he has held the position of Regional Site Manager for Eastern Europe and Global OPS Strategic Manager.

As of 2024, Sylvain Collot assumes the position of Vice President of Global Operations at Melexis, in charge of overseeing and leading the overall strategy on a global scale for the Melexis Operations. This combined with being Managing Director of XPEQT, Automatic Test Solution provider primarily to Melexis.

Mr Collot is currently President of the Belgium-Bulgaria-Luxembourg Business Club since 2022.