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Board of Directors of PRACES, Head of European High-Performance Computing (HPC) projects for GENCI, the French HPC agency, member of PRACE Technical Board and Management Board. Co-leading the work-package in charge of the Organization of the Research Infrastructure, in charge of KPI and Stakeholder Management (including the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)). Member of the Management Board of the Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) PPI4HPC, former work-package leader of PRACE Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP). He holds an Executive MBA and has an academic background in Numerical modelling of Theoretical Physics. He began his career in Canada, working in Data Assimilation for Meteorology, and at Ispra, Italy, for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, on Climate Sciences, moved to the scientific software industry, on pollution modelling, then to hardware industry and spent twenty years of Program Management of R&D demonstration and prototypes for various EC and NATO projects.