Philippe completed his apprenticeship at Roger Meylan SA and was then in charge of several departments for a number of years. He left the business in 1993 to take up CAD/CAD-CAM programming. In 1996, at the initiative of Mr Roger Meylan, he returned to the enterprise where he became the production manager. Because of his many skills acquired during management and quality control training courses, he was given an opportunity in 1998 to take over the Roger Meylan SA and Rectasev SA companies. ETSM SA établissements Meier was created in 2008.