Leadership Team
Christian Zahorski-Philippe
Managing Director | Co-Founder
Christian Zahorski-Philippe was the Head of International Government Organizations for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Public Sector. He managed a team of Sales Executives responsible for Amazon's cloud computing business for governments, educational institutions and nonprofits across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Christian has more than 15 years’ leadership experience in the IT industry across a variety of commercial IT disciplines to include Security and Compliance, Product Development Software, Business Intelligence/Analytics Software, Operations / Support, and Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, 11 years ago, Christian worked for Microsoft and previously for Dell. Born in Montreal, Canada, he has lived in Europe and Africa for over 20 years.
Yves Paternoster
Business Transformation Advisor
Yves Paternoster held several management jobs in European Institutions, covering a wide variety of domains such as IT, HR, Finances and Legal. During his career, Yves specialised in Business Improvement and Transformation supported by fit-for-purpose technologies. He advised several top EU executives on reorganisations, business improvement and digital transformation plans. Yves was notably in charge of the Digital Workplace program of the European Commission from 2016 to 2019 and the first manager in charge of adopting cloud technologies (from 2014 to 2016). In Human Resources, he was a driving force of a global HR Transformation plan, supported by a business process transformation fueled by the cloud, resulting in very significant efficiency improvements.
Yves holds an Engineering degree from the University of Brussels and started his career as a Nuclear Engineer. He works 10 years in the nuclear industry. He joined the European Commission as a Nuclear Inspector, worked as Project Officer in Linguistic Technologies, and held several management positions, with a strong emphasis on the creation of new business and operating models, improving existing ones, or debugging situations. Yves also worked as Head of Department Resources in the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) and was part of the forming management team of this agency.