Martine Lapierre

Martine Lapierre is a Chief Telecom Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique, with a master of Public affairs from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees.

Martine worked 10 years in network planning and software development for Orange France Telecom, where she lately was Executive Director, Network & Services at the headquarters. She also worked 1 year with Pacific Bell (AT&T), and later was president of the TINA Consortium, for the telecom operators and manufacturers.

She moved to Alcatel (later Alcatel-Lucent) responsible for the system engineering of Broadband products, then head of the Information Technology lab of the research center, then President of the Switching Business Unit, and Chief Technology Officer of the Carriers and later of the Mobile communications Groups. She was lately in charge of the vision and Solutions at the headquarters.

In 2009 she moved to THALES, where she is now Technical Director of the Defense & Security C4i Division.