As the senior vice president of cloud protection and licensing activities at Thales, Sébastien Cano leads a global business focused on helping organisations 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 monetizations solutions. Over the past 20 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 and cybersecurity business unit. Before that he was president of Gemalto North America, responsible for all business operations across the region, and previously, he managed the company’s telecommunications business unit in North America.