Philippe Vallée

Philippe Vallée

Philippe Vallée is a graduate in engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) business school. He began his career with Matra Communication as a Product Manager on the first generation of GSM mobile phones. Philippe Vallée joined Gemplus in 1992. He held a number of positions in marketing, product management and sales in Europe and in Asia, including Vice-President of Gemplus Technologies Asia based in Singapore. He was afterwards promoted Vice-President of Marketing, and then President of the Gemplus Telecom business unit. After the merger of equals between Axalto and Gemplus which created Gemalto in 2006, he served as the company’s Chief Technology Officer until June 2007, he was appointed as Executive Vice-President in charge of the Telecommunications Business Unit until 2013. He was the company’s Chief Operating Officer from January 2014 to August 2016, with operational responsibility for all the company’s businesses.