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Christophe Blassiau

Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Security Officer, Schneider Electric

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Starting his career in cryptography for the French Army, Blassiau has since been leading worldwide digital transformation programs for over 20 years, among which the salesforce.com implementation at Schneider with 50,000 users and deploying customer digital platforms. He was also the founder and manager of a web & digital marketing agency for 11 years.

Experienced in leading global digital transformations, Christophe is currently driving Cybersecurity at Schneider Electric as global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In a context of IT/OT/ IoT convergence and digital transformation at speed, he is addressing Schneider Electric’s cybersecurity posture for a worldwide ecosystem of customers, partners and employees.

The approach he drives aims at being risk-informed, managing cyber risks in depth and on establishing a company-wide cybersecurity culture. Plus, he advocates for partnership with Schneider Electric ecosystem across the value chain to enable trust and raise resilience level of the industry at large. In that context, he is an Executive Member of the Cyber Resilience in Electricity and Oil & Gas Communities at the World Economic Forum and has been contributing to common reports and blogs on various topics like supply chain security, third-party risk management, Board Principles, etc.