Philippe Courtot
Qualys
CEO
As CEO of on-demand vulnerability management company Qualys, Courtot has worked with thousands of companies to improve their network security. In 2004, Philippe received the SC Magazine Editor's Award for bringing on demand technology to the network security industry and for co-founding, with former White House advisor Howard Schmidt, the CSO Interchange to provide a forum for sharing information in the security industry.
Before joining Qualys, Courtot was the Chairman and CEO of Signio, an electronic payment start-up that he repositioned to become a significant e-commerce player. I Prior to working at Signio, Courtot was President and CEO of Verity, where he re-engineered the company to become the leader in enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions. In 1986, as CEO of medical imaging firm Thomson CGR Medical, Courtot received the Benjamin Franklin award for his role in the creation of a nationwide advertising campaign promoting the life-saving benefits of mammography. He served on the Board of Trustees for The Internet Society, an international non-profit organization that fosters global cooperation and coordination on the development of the Internet. French and Basque born, he holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris, came to the US in 1981 and has lived in Silicon Valley since 1987.
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