Nicolas has 24 years’ experience in Innovation and R&D, half in big corporations and half founding, funding and developing start-ups, in Europe and Silicon Valley. Nicolas lead multinational engineering teams, from upcoming trends and technologies to Business-applied Revenue-generating services.

For the past few years, Nicolas has driven the Global R&D and Innovation at Worldline, leading teams to focus & find, evaluate, prioritize and drive to market reality all the disruptive technologies/ usages, instilling innovation, igniting new services and increasing performances and efficiency in our portfolio. Nicolas joined Atos group in 2009 and holds a SW/HW engineering degree from EFREI backed up by a Start-up specialized MBA course from HEC in France. Nicolas also belongs to the Expert group of Atos/Worldline as Fellow.

Nicolas teaches Blockchain in prestigious schools like Columbia Edu, Polytechnique, Telecom ParisTech, Institut Mines-Telecom or HEC.

Current big-trends-made-a-reality are Digital Currencies, Quantum Resistant Cryptography and Artificial Intelligence.