After joining Soitec in May 2022, Pierre Barnabé formally took up the position of Chief Executive Officer on 26 July, 2022. Between 2015 and 2021, he was Executive Vice-President of the Atos group in charge of the Big Data & Cybersecurity (BDS) division. He also managed the group’s Public Services & Defense, then Manufacturing activities. He was interim group CEO in 2021. Before its acquisition by Atos in 2014, he was the Deputy CEO of Bull, the unique European leader in supercomputing, electronics for Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity and cyberdefense from 2013 to 2015. From 2011 to 2013, he was Managing Director of the Enterprise branch of the French Telco SFR, where he launched cloud computing and very high-speed broadband activities. From 1998 to 2013, he held various positions at Alcatel then Alcatel-Lucent, first in sales, then as Chairman & Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent France (formerly Alcatel CIT), before becoming Deputy Managing Director of the group in charge of Human Resources and Transformation. Pierre Barnabé has been knighted in the French National Order of Merit. Pierre Barnabé graduated from the NEOMA Business School and the Ecole Centrale de Paris.