About Jean-Pierre Gaudard

Born in Lyon ,France, in 1944, after my "diplome d'Ingénieur INSA" I joined the French Company Thomson CSF (now named Thales), then SITA in June 1972 as part of the User Application Services under Dez Andorka, working with Georges Giraudbit and Giovani Strigari , in assisting Airlines to develop their use of Type A services. I became in 1978 assistant to A.Puerto SITA technical Director and head of Network Planning I was then appointed in 1983 DR (regional Director) of the Middle East region (23 countries) In 1986 as part of number of changes in SITA organization a Marketing division was created under my responsibility. In 1990 I was promoted Vice President Engineering , with a particular focus on the MTN deployment In 1997 I was called to become the managing Director of SITA-Equant je Joint Venture between the 2 companies in charge of developing and Operating the Network I ended my career in Sita Executive President of SITA, based in Geneva, in charge of special project (JV in China, .....) Then I was Board members in several Telecom Cies Have now some interests and Board positions in Pharmaceutical industry