Mr Jean FERRÉ - GROUPE THALES

VICE PRESIDENT AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Jean joined Thales in May 2018, he serves as Vice President Air Traffic Management, Thales

Thales ATM Business Line is part of Thales Land and Air Services Global Business Unit. It offers globally En-route and Approach Automation software, Navigation aids, Services, Program management and System integration capacity to deliver turnkey projects including radars, communication systems and control towers. Building on Thales Digital Factory capacities, Thales ATM now also offers a Digital Aviation Segment with a wide offering including Aviation Data services, UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) and Air Traffic Flow management cloud based solutions.

Over 1500 highly skilled individuals globally work in Thales ATM, more than two thirds being engineers highly skilled in electronics, software architecture and development, aviation safety, cybersecurity and Data science. Thales ATM engineering capacity is mainly in France, Australia, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and China, and more recently Portugal, and India.

From 2010 until 2018, Jean served as a Director at the Boston Consulting Group being the global Digital transformation expert for industry and software companies and leading globally the Data Acceleration Program practice.

Prior to that Jean held several leadership positions at Microsoft, in France where he created Microsoft Venture and lead the Developer and Cloud activity, and in Redmond, WA, USA where he was head of Strategy and business planning for the Advertising and Consumer Monetization Group, to later serve as leader of the global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) activity for the Cloud and Enterprise Business Group.

Before 2010, Jean started his career as a researcher in Industrial Economics at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (CERNA Lab), he then joined AT Kearney as Consultant. In 1998 Jean co-founded and was CEO of Arisem (Artifical Intelligence and Semantics), a software Start-up later acquired by Thales. While creating and being president of Silicon Sentier, first French digital economy hub, Jean was Director of Corporate and International Development for BPI Consulting Group, before becoming in 2005 President and CEO of Sinequa, a leading Big Data and Cognitive platform software solution provider

Jean graduated in 1991 from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) with a Degree in Engineering, he also holds a Master of Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris.