Christophe Salomon
Executive Vice-President, Secure Communications & Information Systems
Christophe Salomon joined Thales's Executive Committee in 2020, as Executive Vice-President in charge of Land and Air Systems. In October 2023, he was appointed Executive Vice-President, Secure Communications and Information Systems.
Christophe Salomon is an armaments engineer who graduated from the French Ecole Polytechnique in 1994 and Sup' Aero in 1999.
He started his career at the French Ministry of Armed Forces, where he held various positions within the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA). During this time, he led numerous large programmes, primarily within the information security systems domain of the ministry.
In 2012, Christophe joined the office of Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister of Defence, as Technical Advisor, and then, as Industrial Affairs Advisor, a role that he held during his entire tenure until 2017.
In 2017, he joined the global electricity group, EDF (Electricité de France), as Chief Information Officer (CIO) where he was also responsible for the group’s digital transformation and cybersecurity, leading a team of approximately 6,000 people.
In his current position at Thales he leads 15,000 talents present in over 20 countries, in the military radio, strategic network infrastructure, protection systems, sovereign cyber technology and digital services domains.