Philippe Debaillon Vesque will be joining the iXCore Group on 1 June as Chief Operating Officer (COO) taking responsibility for the Group’s marine division. He will be based in Marly-le-Roi and will also become iXSea’s CEO. With an engineering degree from Télécom-Paris, Philippe Debaillon Vesque spent most of his career in the Thalès group. He worked many years in Spain and then in Australia. He became MD of Thalès-SAFARE for several years, one of the rare SMEs of the group. Recently, he headed a business unit called “Surface Ships Sonars and Torpedos” across France, the UK and Australia.

Hervé Arditty, the President of iXCore, said, “I am very happy to welcome Philippe to our Group. His management experience is very much complementary to ours and will enable us to structure and deploy our strategy in the most effective way, and to answer our clients’ needs in the best way.”