Meet the Founder
Decision engineering for Physical AI.
Hyperion helps leaders decide what should be built, what must be proven and what should stop before industrial AI reaches the field.
17+ years of software engineering, product, and leadership at Cisco, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and ABB. Creator of the Physical AI Stack. Forbes Technology Council member.
The Mission
Physical AI becomes a product only when customer evidence, system behaviour, field operations, safety and economics are resolved together. Hyperion makes those trade-offs explicit before the next irreversible commitment.
Product SystemPrinciples
Ship or Stop
Every initiative gets a 90-day checkpoint. Ship to production, pivot with purpose, or kill it. I will never let you burn budget on a pilot that has no path to production.
Boundary Before Brand
Deployment region, data boundary, licensing, evaluation, latency, lifecycle cost and exit path are written down before a provider is chosen. Mistral and open-weight models are options, not defaults. No resale kickbacks or referral fees: the recommendation follows the evidence for your system.
Honest Over Comfortable
I tell you what you need to hear. Sometimes that's 'don't do this.' Sometimes it's 'you're not ready.' Respectful pushback is part of what you're paying for. If you want a yes-person, I'm not it.
Independence as the Goal
I build myself out of a job. Every engagement includes documentation, training, and knowledge transfer. When I leave, you run your AI yourself. That's success.
Mohammed Cherifi
Founder career — not Hyperion clients
17+ years of software engineering, product, and leadership at Cisco, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and ABB — where software meets the physical world.
NDS / Cisco Systems
100M+ scale | Global
Senior Program Manager
- 9 years from intern to Senior PM, shipping video platforms at 100M+ scale
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi
Major programs | Connected Services
Product Leadership — Connected Services, RNM Alliance
- 4 vehicle launches — Megane E-Tech, Austral, Rafale, Scenic — connected-services product leadership (Renault OpenR Link, NissanConnect)
ABB E-mobility
Product Marketing (Jun 2024–Jun 2025)
- 400kW ultra-fast EV charging go-to-market
These marks represent founder career, advisory work, memberships and affiliations. They do not represent Hyperion clients.
Executive education from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Kellogg. Each credential backs a specific capability I bring to your engagement.
Executive Education
Certificate of Business Excellence
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Eight professional certificates — Data Science, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, IoT
MIT Professional Education
Product Management Certification
Kellogg Executive Education, Northwestern University
Certified Agile Leadership I; Certified Scrum Product Owner (2017–2023)
Scrum Alliance
MSc Networks & Telecommunications
Paris-Saclay University
Engineering Degree in Computer Science (AI & Data Science)
University of Oran
Industry recognition and leadership appointments
Recognition & Appointments
Memberships and affiliations.Appointments and bodies Mohammed belongs to — not client relationships.
- arXiv Preprint — 'Autonomous Edge-Deployed AI Agents for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Management' (arxiv.org/abs/2603.08736) — Physical AI preprint
- Forbes Technology Council Member (since 2021)
- Creator of the Physical AI Stack — a framework for AI-native physical infrastructure
- Senior Executive AI ThinkTank Member (since 2025) — invitation-only leadership network
- Berkeley SkyDeck Advisor (pro-bono, since 2022) — advising startups at UC Berkeley's accelerator
- Board Member, La French Tech Athens — representing French tech ecosystem in Greece
- Ambassadeur IA in the French government's Osez l'IA business-adoption network (2025) — a national AI-adoption network, not a regulatory or ministerial-appointment role
- Published Forbes.com Contributor
- FranceNum Activateur — Referenced Digital Transformation Expert (2025)
Selected public events and programme appointments.
In the Field
These photographs document public events and programme participation. They do not imply endorsement, sponsorship or client relationships.
Partner in Greece
Strategy-to-execution partner in Greece
Stavros Stavrides
For engagements in Greece, I work with Stavros as an independent partner. As the founder of MetaBusiness, he brings 20+ years of experience in complex organisations and helps leaders close the gap between strategy and execution. His work spans leadership alignment, decision clarity, team dynamics, behaviour and culture activation, and sustained change, combining structured frameworks with startup-inspired methods. This complements Hyperion's Physical AI product and architecture work with the operating habits needed to turn decisions into results.
This partnership applies to Greece only. Stavros is an independent partner, not a Hyperion employee; Hyperion remains founder-led.