Youri Pasquier Appointed Director of Information Systems and Security

Youri Pasquier Appointed Director of Information Systems and Security

Iliad, the parent company of Free, has named Youri Pasquier to the position of Director of Information Systems and Corporate Security for the group.

An ESIEE engineer, Youri Pasquier previously worked at Scaleway, Iliad’s cloud and infrastructure subsidiary, where he held several roles over more than four years (from 2020 to 2025). He served as IT Infrastructure Manager and then as Chief Information Officer, and he was notably involved in driving the SecNumCloud qualification initiative led by ANSSI, a milestone known as J0, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

He has also held IT leadership roles at ViaDirect as Technical Director and at WPO as CIO, spanning the period from 2008 to 2020.

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