Paving Intelligence into Safety, Security & Mobility

Since 2000, Chris has been involved in a few turnaround situations for Technology companies. His field of expertise covered network QoS, IPTV, wireless, ultrasonic and utility metering. Before being in charge of the development of Citilog, he was CEO of QOSMETRICS (http://qoe.symmetricom.com/ ) which was then acquired by SYMMETRICOM (http://www.symmetricom.com/ San Jose, California), a leader in system GPS and Time protocol.

Before 2000, Chris spun-off a security technology company out of THALES in the area of Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), thus creating one of the first French players back in 1997. In the early 90s, Chris was a partner at THALES VENTURE, the corporate venture firm of THALES. He has been involved in IPOs in France and the USA, as well as in turnaround and corporate development situations. He was a member of the Industry Liaison programs of MIT (Boston, USA), ONERA (Fr), FRAUNHOFFER GESELLSCHAFT (Ger) and FEL-TNO (NL).

Before that, Chris was involved in engineering, marketing and international sales. Chris earned an MBA from the WHARTON school in Philadelphia (PA, USA) and graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées, with a MS in Computer Science and Ocean Engineering in Paris (France).

Since August 2007, Marie-Annick is in charge of Citilog communications. She is a recognized journalist. She worked at Nova-Magazine and Psychologies Magazine in order to boost those magazines from 1997 to 2006. Before that, during 3 years at France 2 television, Marie-Annick was key to their success working with Michel Drucker and also previously worked 6 years at the Journal du Dimanche from 1989 to 1994.

From 1979 to 1989 she spent more than 10 years at Europe 1 radio as a journalist and she had the opportunity to work with Etienne Mougeotte, Ivan Levai, Philippe Gildas, Pierre Lescure, Gérard Carreyrou, Catherine Nay et Jean-Pierre Elkabach.

Marie-Annick is also teaching Press and Media techniques at the at ISCOM and WELLER schools.