France’s automotive industry is evolving into a software-defined, connected, and increasingly regulated ecosystem—where cyber risk spans factories and warehouses (OT/SCADA), supply chains, corporate IT, and vehicles themselves. The security leaders below stand out for turning that complexity into practical governance, resilient operations, and measurable risk reduction across global organizations and fast-moving industrial environments.
Véronique Mireau — Group Cybersecurity GRC Director, Valeo Group
Véronique Mireau leads cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance at Valeo Group, bringing a consistently risk-oriented approach that she credits for helping her succeed across diverse challenges. Her background includes directing L’Oréal’s worldwide cybersecurity program (covering more than 50 security projects) spanning GRC (awareness, crisis management, project risk analysis), data confidentiality and privacy (including GDPR and retention tooling), network and cloud security, IAM, endpoint security, digital security (including WAF and account management), point-of-sale security, and plant/warehouse security (including SCADA and network segregation), alongside SOC and supervision improvements. Earlier, she managed multiple international IT transitions and ITIL process change across incident, problem, change, configuration, knowledge, security, availability, capacity, and SLA domains, and built cybersecurity capability at Sogeti ESEC through creation and management of a 50-consultant technical security practice.
Mohamed Oueriagli — Chief Information Security Officer, Groupe PSA
Mohamed Oueriagli is the Groupe PSA CISO with a long tenure and a board-advisory posture focused on aligning security strategy to business objectives in a pragmatic, agile way. His achievements include maintaining a global information security policy, deploying Security-by-Design to support digital transformation, and establishing governance with board visibility through quarterly reporting. He emphasizes defense-in-depth and zero-trust principles, strengthens protection in manufacturing (including network segmentation, OT/IoT governance, and emergency planning), and drove connected-car end-to-end cybersecurity assessment. He also built and optimized an enterprise SOC for 24/7 visibility, led incident response and crisis management through major events (including WannaCry/Petya-era crises, supplier impacts, and geopolitics-related risk), defined outsourcing security requirements for major partners, and led security integration through major M&A and merger transitions (including Opel-Vauxhall acquisition integration and FCA/PSA merger convergence).
Jihane Khayoussef, PhD — Head of Security & IT Governance, Volkswagen Group France
Jihane Khayoussef leads security governance and processes for Volkswagen Group France, with a career built around controls, audits, communication, and governance-led cybersecurity. She has served as Head of IT Security, Governance & Processes since March 2022 and took on a broader Regional CISO role for EU National Sales Companies within Volkswagen Group in February 2025. Her prior experience includes senior cyber security leadership at Deloitte, and earlier roles in information security, risk, governance, and IT risk services across multiple regions—supporting a governance-first model that fits highly distributed, sales-company environments.
Gilles Ducarre — Group CISO / RSSI Responsable Cybersécurité, Michelin
Gilles Ducarre is responsible for global operational security across Michelin’s internal and external information systems, including large-scale web and SaaS estates and security coordination across hundreds of subsidiaries. His scope highlights operational leadership across digital governance, endpoint and connectivity security, IAM, secret/account management, attack surface protection, supplier monitoring, ransomware resilience, and post–red team action execution. He also references modern cloud security practices (including CSPM and multi-cloud security), compliance alignment, crisis simulations with executive involvement, and global programs such as privileged access management deployment—reflecting a practitioner profile grounded in both governance and hands-on operational execution at scale.
Nicolas Graslin — SVP Global CISO, Stellantis
Nicolas Graslin is SVP Global CISO at Stellantis, with an engineering and operations background spanning cybersecurity defense leadership and large-scale infrastructure and service management. Before joining Stellantis, he held senior cybersecurity operations leadership at Sopra Steria and led cybersecurity defense center responsibilities at Airbus, with additional CISO and security architecture leadership experience in aerospace organizations. His trajectory signals a blend of security operations, architecture, and enterprise IT service leadership—an increasingly important mix for global automotive groups operating across manufacturing, supply chain, and connected services.
Israel Mouofo Minkam — CISO, Souffleries Aeroacoustiques Automobiles (S2A)
Israel Mouofo Minkam positions his work around assessing risk, identifying vulnerabilities, and integrating security into applications and systems to improve robustness. As CISO for S2A, he describes responsibility for defining and implementing cybersecurity strategy aligned to business objectives, managing infrastructure and application security projects, and driving cyber risk management and compliance against standards and frameworks such as TISAX, ISO 27001, and NIS-related requirements. He also highlights audit supervision, remediation tracking and reporting, SOC and monitoring improvement, cross-functional coordination for technical interventions, and security training and awareness—an end-to-end leadership scope suited to industrial and supplier environments.
Why France’s Automotive Cyber Leadership Matters
France’s automotive sector sits at the intersection of industrial operations, complex supplier ecosystems, and rapidly expanding digital attack surfaces—from plants and warehouses to connected services. The leaders featured here reflect a common thread: security programs that are governance-led, operationally grounded, and designed to scale across global footprints—exactly what the modern automotive environment demands.