Marc Vaillant, CEO

From the outset of his career Marc Vaillant has held management posts in international emerging technology companies in both Europe and the USA, where he spent 8 years in all. Prior to joining Bee Ware he was CEO of Criston Software and helped to escalate the company's license sales by more than 50% from 2008 to 2009, with 40% of sales in export markets.
He was formerlyVice President of Hewlett Packard's Business Unit (for Europe and the States), Vice President of Global Marketing & Sales at Motorola (USA) and Managing Director of MobileWay (Sybase Group). Marc Vaillant holds an MBA degree (HEC, Paris).

Olivier Arous, Marketing Director

Previously Automation Project Manager at TETRA PAK Processing, Olivier moved after three years to GEMPLUS where he managed a team of six people as Customization Project Manager. Between 2000 and 2006 he went from directing Product Marketing & Business Development to Europe Telecom Marketing at RENESAS TECHNOLOGY. Prior to joining ARKOON Network Security at the end of 2008, Olivier was Director of Marketing and Business evelopment at CRYPTOLOG INTERNATIONAL. Olivier Arous qualified with an MBA degree from HEC and also holds an engineering degree from Lille.

Sébastien Talha, Sales Director

With more than 15 years of experience to his credit, Sébastien has gained a wealth of knowledge of the IT industry and has a particularly strong sales background. He has worked for leading companies such as RISC TECHNOLOGY and NETWORK ASSOCIATES and was Channel Account Manager and North Africa Country Manager at MCAFEE. More recently, he assumed the role of Security Consultant at VERIZON BUSINESS. Sébastien Talha holds a graduate degree from Paris Sorbonne.

Guillaume Lesaint, Chief Financial Officer

As a specialist in corporate expansion, mergers and acquisitions, Guillaume has strongly contributed to various large-scale financial operations, including the acquisition of CRISTON by NUMARA SOFTWARE. For a duration of six years he was also Investment manager at SEVENTURE PARTNERS. His latest role has been that of Corporate Secretary for OMNIKLES, RFP management SaaS company.

Raphaël Leblanc, Director of Innovation

Raphaël began his career as an IT consultant and then moved on to manage different projects at Dassault Systèmes where he worked for 7 years before joining the social network platform vendor BlueKiwi. His various areas of expertise include application architecture, data modeling, DBMS and Web Technologies. Raphaël holds an Engineering Degree from ESIGELEC (Rouen).

Matthieu Estrade – CTO

In 2001 Matthieu designed a pioneering application firewall based on Web Reverse Proxy Technology for the company Axiliance. As a well known specialist in his field he soon became a member of the Open Source Apache server development team. His security expertise has been put to contribution in WASC (Web Application Security Consortium) projects and in 2008 he also became a member of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project).