Graduated from the French Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Thierry Winter started his career within the software department of Bull, by carrying out projects for network and applications management. He has filed several patents on QoS management and security.

In 2000, he took the lead of the security R&D of the Evidian company, with a focus on Identity and Access Management. As part of his duties as Evidian CTO, he’s driving the Research and Development activities for the different Evidian product lines.

He has participated in many Eureka, FP7 and H2020 collaborative projects, targeting security governance. He has been the initiator and project coordinator for three successful terminated ITEA projects; two received the golden achievement award in 2002 (PEPITA) and 2011 (MULTIPOL).

Distinguished Expert, member of the ATOS Scientific Community, Thierry is president of the Digital Trust & Security thematic group of the Systematic-Paris-Region ICT cluster.