Chairman and CEO, DCNS & board member, Trust and Security Industry Council

A graduate form Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, Institut National Supérieur des Techniques Nucléaires (INSTN) and INSEAD, Hervé Guillou started his career in 1978 as manager of mechanics and fluid systems in the Rubis attack submarine at the French naval shipbuilder DCN. Following this, he was project manager for the nuclear propulsion system of the new-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at DCN Indret. From 1989 to 1993, he was advisor and Chief of Staff of the French National Armament Director of DGA. In 1993, he held the position of programme manager in the international tripartite anti-aircraft Frigate programme Horizon and was head of the Joint Project Office in London.
In 1996, he moved to the engineering company Technicatome as Managing Director. In 1993, he had joined EADS (now Airbus Group), becoming successively chairman and CEO of Launch Vehicles and CEO of Space Transportation, then chairman and CEO of the EADS Defence and Communications Systems (DCS) Business Unit, and chairman and CEO of the French entity EADS Defence & Security Systems SA.
He was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of DCNS, and holds that position until now.
He is also a senior advisor of Defense and Security for Airbus Group, board member of the Trust and Security Industry Council ( Conseil des Industriels de la Confiance et de la Sécurité).

Articles from this author

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  Recommended / 2016-08-03

  The cybersecurity challenge

  Hervé Guillou / Chairman and CEO, DCNS & board member, Trust and Security Industry Council

  Cyber-threats are now becoming systemic in the world economy. Concern of all actors involved is rising, to the extent that it may lead to a global counter move against digitisation that would consequently have a huge negative economic impa…