Are we already there? Explore the adoption and evolution of eSIM

Antoine Thomas serves as the Head of eSIM Solutions and is notably in-charge of the eSIM products and solutions, business and strategy in Thales Digital Identity & Security.

He was previously Product Director for eSIM solutions from 2016 to 2018 responsible for the roadmap and deployment of eSIM solutions at Gemalto.
Antoine has twenty years of experience in combined Security, Telecommunication and Payment business. He has held various positions in Technical, Sales and Marketing with Gemplus, Gemalto and now Thales.

Antoine holds and engineering degree in Computer Science with specialization in Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Banking from École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique pour l’Industrie et l’Entreprise (ENSIIE) in Paris, France.

Dr.-Ing. Emmanuel Pollakis is a R&D expert and project manager at BMW Group. In his current role, he is responsible for research and development in the area of embedded SIM technology and SIM subscription management. Previously he was leading BMW Group’s research for connected cars with an emphasis on Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and 5G mobile communication technology.

Dr. Emmanuel Pollakis received his Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Berlin, in 2017.

Etienne Chaponniere (VP, Technical Standards) currently leads Qualcomm’s involvement in industry bodies related to the cellular industry. His career spans system engineering for modem implementation, R&D system engineering and standardization. Recently he has been focusing on wireless technology evolution including in particular 4G evolution, 5G and evolution of the SIM.

Etienne holds a MS Telecommunication Engineering from the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne.

Jesse Seed leads Qualcomm’s product management team responsible for security hardware, software, and services across business units. She has over 16 years of experience in wireless semiconductors as both an engineer and a product manager, and has focused on chipset security since 2011. Jesse holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.

Marie Austenaa leads Market Development at Signicat – a pioneering pan-European digital identity company established in Norway – one of the most advanced digital identity markets. Her responsibilities are to drive the international expansion of Signicat and to establish collaboration with mobile operators.

Prior to joining Signicat, Marie Austenaa lead the GSMA’s digital identity activities globally to establish a global mobile identity solution.

Marie has many years experience working in strategy and business development including start-ups for Vodafone and Telenor and as a strategy consultant for Analysys Mason. Marie holds a MEng from Imperial College in Software Engineering, MBA from HEC, and a MA in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School.

Vincent Korstanje is vice president and general manager of the Emerging Businesses Group at Arm. His group leads the development of solutions that utilize eSIM and iSIM technologies to help realise Arm’s vision of a trillion secure connected IoT devices.

Vincent has been involved in building Arm’s success for the last 20 years, starting in compiler design, followed by various commercial positions, and recently leading Arm’s security effort.

Prior to Arm, Vincent worked at the Dutch research organisation TNO (tno.nl), working both in compiler design and white-hat hacking of early versions smartcards.

Ea is leading the Global Ecosystem Engagement activity in Idemia’s Digital Business Unit where she engage with Global and local players such as technology alliances, regulators, humanitarian organizations with a focus on Digital inclusion and financial inclusion, with the aim to share our expertise and enable business opportunities with Idemia’s Financial Institutions and Mobile Operators customers .

Previously Ea was leading the Digital Solutions Business Line for Mobiles Operators at Idemia covering marketing, presales, product experts, sales and operational teams.

Before that, from 2007 to 2012, Ea was account manager and then Head of Customer Team in charge of business development of a strategic mobile operator customer at Nokia Siemens Networks.

Between 1998 and 2007, she held various positions in Sales at Siemens Networks.

Jean-Francois Rubon is the Director for Strategy & Partnerships within the Digital Identity and Security (DIS) Business Unit of Thales. Based in France, he is responsible to define strategy for embedded security, 5G and establishing technology partnerships between Gemalto and players in the mobile ecosystem.

In more than 10 years of his career at Gemalto, Jean-Francois has held various positions in the Telecommunication team related to innovation, product management, R&D, standardization and partnerships. Prior to Gemalto, Jean-Francois worked with several French telecommunication equipment companies and led the development of several mobile products, while contributing to ETSI and 3GPP work on GSM/3G air interface standardization.

Jean-Francois holds an MSc in Computer Science from the National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes, France.

Pierre Dormont is Sales & Distribution SVP for Orange Group, covering Consumers Markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

He joined Orange in 1997 and played a key role in deploying more than 30 mobile operators around the world. In 2004, he became Sales & Distribution SVP for Orange Group, covering  initially Enterprise  Markets mobile activities from 2004, then all activities from 2007.

Since September 2009, he is leading Orange Group’s Consumer Retail transformation projects, in line with Orange development strategy.

Loic Bonvarlet oversees Product Management and Marketing for Kigen, helping to facilitate adoption and scalability of a secure, integrated and cost effective cellular IoT. He drives the entire Kigen portfolio from embedded solutions to services. He has more than 20 years of experience in Telecoms, wireless, security and IoT in development, support, technical sales and product marketing.

Prior to Kigen, Loic Bonvarlet worked at Arm (2018-2020) as Product Marketing Director, Secure Identity notably to develop and promote Kigen Portfolio and first iSIM projects.

In his previous Gemalto role, Loic Bonvarlet was leading IoT Services Product Marketing including the Gemalto IoT platform and Security Solutions (Trusted Key Manager and Secure Element). As North America Application Engineering Director, he helped key cellular module customers to successfully go to market.

Loic holds a Master of Engineering in Telecoms and networks from Grenoble Institute of Technology.

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Jean-Philippe Betoin is Director of Strategic and Ecosystem Marketing in ARM’s Emerging Business Group with a focus on Secure Identity solutions for IoT devices.

With more than 25 years of experience in smart card and embedded security segments over different verticals (Telecom, Payment, ID), Jean-Philippe held several senior business executive positions at Gemalto, Inside Secure and most recently served as Vice-President, Secure Mobile Solutions at Morpho (now Idemia).

He joined ARM in 2017 from the acquisition of Simulity, where he was in charge of eSIM and IoT Solutions. He has served as chairman of SIMalliance and was a board member of the NFC Forum. Jean-Philippe holds an MSc in Software Engineering and an MBA in B2B Strategy & Marketing.

As Chief Technology Officer, Philippe Guillemette has a mandate to drive common technology platform activities and innovation across all business units. Philippe joined Sierra Wireless in March 2009 from Wavecom, where he served as Chief Technology Officer since 2003 and Vice President of Marketing since 2005. Philippe joined Wavecom in 1993 and held various positions there, including Vice President of Research and Development, Vice President of Technology, and Director of Software Development. Prior to joining Wavecom, Philippe was a software engineer at Nortel Networks.

Carsten Ahrens is Chief Executive Officer of Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security GmbH. Having completed his studies in electrical engineering, he brings more than 20 years of experience in various management positions in national and international telecommunications and IT companies. Prior to his most recent positions as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Mobile Security at Giesecke & Devrient GmbH and as CTO of Funkwerk AG, he served over five years as CEO for the telecommunications equipment supplier Ericsson in the German market. His professional career includes building up business units in leading companies such as Atos Origin and Ericsson.

Phil joined Vodafone in 2013 having amassed a wealth of experience across a broad range of industries including defence, FMCG, manufacturing and media.

A long-term exponent of telemetry, M2M and IoT and having worked within many of the worlds leading enterprises including Siemens, Landis & Gyr and Mars in the US, UK, Switzerland and New Zealand, Phil brings a highly strategic view of this rapidly changing and evolving market.

“IoT is central to the current wave of digitisation and as Head of Strategy there are few other markets where there is so much opportunity to drive value for our customers. The potential for IoT to revolutionise the way we do business but also to have a positive social impact is a really exciting prospect and I am particularly excited to play a key role in driving this future direction”

Sergio Cozzolino got an Enginering degree in 1992 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in 1995. He has been in TELECOM ITALIA MOBILE since 1995 in charge of new services and development on end user products acquiring a significative experience on activities related to SIM and SMART Cards. From 1996 he is taking part to the standardisation activities (ETSI SMG9 and later SCP). He was GSM Association SCAG (Smart Card Application Group) Chairman (2002-2012) and in 2003 he chaired the SIM Task Force within the GSMA. Responsable for TIM for the European Research Progrem SCARAB (1998-1999) and TASSC (1999-2001) Esp@ss (2002-2004). Project Manager for applications based on SIM and Smart cards (FINECO Moving, Easybuy,UIC, … ). He was up to the end of 2002 director of the Smart Card and Services development Dept. In 2003 he was Director of the of the Technical Marketing and System Engineering Dept. for the Corporate Division. From 2004 to 2012 he was in charge of the Innovative ICT Mobile Service development Dept, dedicated to the Corporate Customers. From 2013 to 2014 he was in charge of the Mobile Service Development Dept. for the Consumer Customers. As of 2015 he is in the Innovation Dept taking care of the eSIM project and from June 2014 Chairman of the SIM Group within the GSMA. Since 2016 member of ECSO (European Cyber Security Oraginzation)

Richard Cockle, Head of Identity at GSMA, leads an international team developing new identity capabilities using Mobile Connect. He expanded the business reach of Mobile Connect to 70 mobile operators in over 30 countries, reaching over half a billion people worldwide.

With over 15 years of experience leading vital projects in the mobile ecosystem, Richard has an exceptional understanding of the key challenges being faced by the industry. In the past, Richard led the GSMA IoT programme where he secured industry agreements to key standards for M2M chipset design and remote SIM provisioning. These two are widely deployed nowadays. Richard also has a wealth of experience working with governments and regulators.

In addition, Richard Cockle currently holds an advisory role with HR Tech consultancy SilverCloudHR, where he works with blue-chip companies to develop and implement their HR Tech strategies. Prior to the GSMA, Richard held a number of technology delivery roles in Vodafone and BT.

Jean-Christophe Tisseuil is Head of eSIM at GSMA leading the Remote SIM Provisioning for Consumer Devices Programme. Previously Jean-Christophe was Vice President Strategy Telecoms at Morpho, e-Documents Division responsible for field marketing, innovation and M2M business development. Before joining Morpho, Jean-Christophe was key to the launch of Orange France’s first Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone. He was also responsible for Product strategy and marketing for SIM cards at Orange Group.

Previously he was Product Training and Merchandising Manager for consumer devices at Ericsson. His exhaustive knowledge of the Telco industry, deep technical skill and strong professionalism has been instrumental in the successful market introductions of new technologies to the telecoms market. Prior to working in the telecommunications industry, Jean-Christophe spent 8 years in the HR and training industry.

Pablo leads the Commercial Research practice at GSMA Intelligence. He drives the research agenda and themes, overseeing the production of content for a range of topics such as 5G and network transformation, telecoms and media convergence, new telco technologies, IoT and enterprise opportunities, spectrum, and the future of the digital consumer. Some of his recent research publications delved into operator revenue and services beyond connectivity, eSIM, 5G investment and opportunities, B2B strategies, and Edge Computing. Pablo is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events, with more than 35 presentations and panels per year. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the telecoms sector in different roles, including industry research, equity research and investor relations.