As the Senior Vice President of Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing, Sébastien Cano leads a global business focused on helping organizations and the most respected brands in the world protect their most sensitive data, secure the cloud, and create more value for their software in the devices and services used by billions of consumers every day. He is responsible for the business and strategy for the company's industry-leading data encryption, identity and access management, and software monetization solutions.

Over the past twenty years Sébastien is a proven global leader of high growth businesses in the highly competitive security, telecommunications and financial services industries. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Gemalto’s Enterprise & Cybersecurity business unit. Prior to that he was President of Gemalto North America (2014-2016), responsible for all business operations across the region, and before that he managed the company's Telecommunications Business Unit in North America for five years. During these two previous assignments, he led the transformation of Gemalto into a leading provider of software, solutions and services to Fortune 500 Corporations.

Prior to these positions, he served Gemalto in a number of leadership roles including SVP Convergence Business Group in France, VP of Operations in Brazil during the country's EMV migration and General Manager of the Telecommunications Business Unit for southern Europe.

Sébastien has a master's degree in Technology Management from Grenoble École de Management.