Pascale Vicat-Blanc

CEO

Pascale Vicat-Blanc co-founded Lyatiss in 2010 and brings more than 20 years of R&D on grid, network and Cloud technologies. She decided to start a Cloud Computing venture with the goal to transform all of her research efforts to build a unique approach to virtualization and bring the only network-centric Cloud Computing software on the market. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Pascale Vicat-Blanc was a former Research Director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science), CIO of Grid 5000 and co-Chair of an INRIA-Bell Labs team. She was recently inducted into the National Order of the Legion of Honor for her 20 years of research on grid, network and Cloud technologies.

Sebastien Soudan

CTO

Sebastien Soudan co-founded Lyatiss in 2010 and brings his technical expertise in bandwidth sharing, network scheduling, optical networks, network economics and game theory. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Sebastien Soudan graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2005 and obtained his PhD in 2009 from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He won the Marconi Prize “Young Scholars” in 2009 for his research on dynamic bandwidth provisioning.