As the Senior Vice President of the Cloud Protection & Licensing business of Thales, Sébastien Cano leads the global Cybersecurity division of the group. This division is focused on helping more than 35,000 organizations and the most respected brands in the world protect their most sensitive data, protect their critical applications, secure their cloud usage, protect their employees and customers’ identities, and monetize their software. Recently, he led the Thales acquisition of Imperva, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity companies.

Over the past twenty years Sébastien has proved himself as a global leader of high growth businesses in the highly competitive cybersecurity, 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, responsible for all business operations across the region, and before that he managed the company’s Telecommunications Business Unit in North America. 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 several 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 in Spain.

Sébastien has a Master’s degree in Technology Management from Grenoble École de Management.