Philippe Courtot has a history of building innovative companies and transforming them into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Courtot has worked with thousands of companies to improve their IT security. Courtot received the SC Magazine Editor’s Award for bringing on demand technology to network security and for co-founding the CSO Interchange, a forum for sharing information in the security industry. Before Qualys, Courtot was the Chairman and CEO of Signio, Chairman and CEO of Verity and Chairman and CEO of cc:Mail. He holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris.