Leadership Team
Jean-Noël de Galzain
CEO and founder of WALLIX
Jean-Noël de Galzain founded WALLIX in 2003. Under his leadership, the company became the first French cybersecurity company to be listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in 2015, and is also recognized as a European leader in the world of identity and access security. WALLIX’s track record over the past 20 years bears witness to its ambition to transform this Paris-based cybersecurity start-up into a European industrial mid-sized company. Committed to digital ecosystems, Jean-Noël is also Vice-Chairman of the Comité Stratégique de Filière “Industrie de Sécurité”, part of the French “Stratégie Nationale de Cybersécurité”. An entrepreneur, he also founded the Hexatrust group in 2014, of which he is Chairman. More recently, he created the Cyber Impacts Ventures fund, providing active support to start-ups operating in the cybersecurity sector.
Amaury Rosset
CFO and co-founder
Amaury began his career as a management controller in the Finance Department of Hachette Filipacchi Presse. He then moved on to positions of responsibility, notably as Asia-Pacific Project Manager and Publications Director for Hong Kong and China, where he was based for four years. On his return from Asia, Amaury Rosset founded X-LAB, an agency specializing in Web applications, which he subsequently sold to WALLIX, a company he co-founded alongside Jean-Noël de Galzain in 2003. Today, he is CFO of the Group, with the ambition of enabling WALLIX to become a European leader in identity and access cybersecurity, worldwide.
Eric Gatrio
Chief Revenue Officer
Eric Gatrio has been working in the software and IT services sector for over 30 years. Ingénieur des Mines de Nancy, he began his career in sales at IBM France before joining Oracle in the early 2000s. He successively held sales management roles with teams in France and Europe, in the Applications field (ERP, HR, Customer Experience), and took part in the rapid roll-out of SaaS offerings from 2015. He will also lead the implementation of new management and remote sales methods to accelerate sales in the ETI segment in Europe. Eric joined WALLIX in March 2023 as Chief Revenue Officer.
Edwige Brossard
VP Marketing & Communication
Edwige Brossard began her career with the Cap Gemini Group, one of the world’s leading IT consulting and services companies. In 2002, she joined the American software publisher DELL (EMC²) where, as Product Manager, she promoted several software lines on the global market. Five years later, as Marketing Director, she joined a start-up specializing in digital management of the “Smart City”. Through an acquisition, she joined the Engie group, where she was appointed Deputy Managing Director, a position she held until 2016, before joining WALLIX. Edwige holds a degree in Engineering (Polytech Angers), Innovation Marketing, Business School University of Missouri – USA.
Julien Cassignol
Chief Technology and Product Officer
Julien Cassignol has been active in the field of cybersecurity for over twenty years, first on a personal level through his involvement in open-source software, and later professionally. Throughout his career, he has held a variety of positions, ranging from software developer to consultant, as well as roles in customer support and pre-sales engineering within several major corporations and software vendors, including IBM and One Identity. He joined WALLIX in 2019 as Head of Pre-Sales Organization, before becoming Head of Business Strategy in 2023, then Chief Product Officer in 2024. That same year, he was appointed Chief Technology and Product Officer. Julien holds an engineering degree in cybersecurity from Télécom ParisTech and an Executive MBA from HEC Paris.
Marie-Liesse Allouis-Lacaze
Group Human Resources Director
Marie-Liesse Allouis-Lacaze began her career at Axcess by Deloitte before joining Wavestone (SoluCom), where she created the Recruitment function and established the HR department to support the group’s strong growth. She then joined SGCIB to lead the global compensation review process, before becoming Group HR Director at Hoist Locatel, where she supported the company’s business model transformation towards digital solutions. In 2009, she joined Avanade (a joint venture between Accenture & Microsoft), where she served for more than 15 years as Chief People Officer for the France-Belgium-Netherlands region, driving growth, acquisitions and transformations. A Sciences Po and RBL Institute (USA) graduate, and a certified coach, she is passionate about the business impact of HR strategies and the development of talent and leadership. She joined WALLIX in 2025.
