France’s management consulting sector sits at a crossroads of trust, sensitive client data, and fast-moving delivery models. These firms often operate in multi-client, multi-tenant realities—handling strategy, transformation, and advisory work where confidentiality is non-negotiable and security expectations vary by client. The security leaders below stand out for blending governance, risk management, and security culture with the operational discipline required to protect consulting environments at speed and at scale.
Maud Laborde — Chief Information Security Officer, Pluxee France
Maud Laborde is Chief Information Security Officer at Pluxee France, with experience spanning cybersecurity consulting, risk and compliance programs, and executive-facing security governance. Her background includes leading remediation initiatives after audits, building security committee rhythms, defining implementation evidence, and supporting decision-making through structured reporting. She also brings strong experience in awareness and behaviour change programs—from phishing toolkits to hands-on training—grounded in risk analysis approaches such as ISO 27005 and EBIOS Risk Manager, and in integrating security into projects and supplier contracts.
Quentin Lafon — Chief Information Security Officer, CESAMES
Quentin Lafon leads information security at CESAMES with a mandate that blends security strategy, risk-driven governance, and practical operational response. His focus includes building security culture across users and decision-makers, defining security policies and roadmaps based on risk analysis and continuous monitoring, and ensuring controls cover both technology layers and business processes. He also emphasizes continuous improvement through integrated management systems, incident handling through recovery, and a disciplined approach to compliance and reporting.
Vincent Juquel — Chief Information Security Officer, RYDGE Conseil
Vincent Juquel is Chief Information Security Officer at RYDGE Conseil, bringing senior leadership experience across security, cloud, and infrastructure operations. His career includes security leadership roles within major professional services and enterprise environments, with strengths in cybersecurity strategy, security architecture, budgeting, and risk analysis aligned with ISO 27005 practices. He is positioned to bring board-level clarity to consulting security: setting direction, prioritising investment, and ensuring delivery teams can execute securely across client-facing engagements.
Amaury Coulomban — Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer, Wavestone
Amaury Coulomban serves as Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer at Wavestone, combining security leadership with privacy accountability in a consulting context. His background includes cybersecurity consulting leadership, governance and compliance work, and career development leadership—useful in firms where security maturity depends heavily on people, practices, and repeatable delivery models. His role reflects the reality of consulting security: protecting client trust while enabling consultants to move quickly, collaborate widely, and still meet high standards for information protection and regulatory alignment.
Khaled Masmoudi — Global Chief Information Security Officer, Moongy Group
Khaled Masmoudi is Global Chief Information Security Officer at Moongy Group, with deep technical and program leadership across security architecture, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and cloud security. His experience covers building security operations capabilities, managing log and security information and event management lifecycles, coordinating penetration testing, and driving compliance-oriented security programs. With a strong foundation in operational security and crisis readiness, he brings a globally-oriented approach to securing consulting delivery environments that depend on resilient platforms, disciplined controls, and consistent execution.
Rodrigue Coffi — Group Chief Information Security Officer, Scalian
Rodrigue Coffi is Group Chief Information Security Officer at Scalian, with extensive experience leading strategic programs that require coordination across budgets, resources, and multi-stakeholder delivery. With a background spanning business and technical alignment, he focuses on translating enterprise direction into executable security initiatives. In a consulting and engineering services environment, this kind of leadership is central: building security structures that scale across teams, geographies, and client expectations while maintaining clarity of ownership and measurable outcomes.
Olivier Dubocquet — Chief Information Security Officer, Elis
Olivier Dubocquet is Chief Information Security Officer at Elis, bringing long-term leadership in information systems production and infrastructure into a security leadership role. His background reflects a strong operational foundation—an advantage in environments where service continuity, platform reliability, and standardised processes are critical to secure delivery. In his current role, he is positioned to align security priorities with the realities of enterprise operations and the day-to-day mechanics of protecting infrastructure at scale.
Alif Mohssine — Chief Information Security Officer, Thales SIX GTS France SAS
Alif Mohssine serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Thales SIX GTS France SAS, with a long tenure as a security expert and team leader. His experience suggests a security approach grounded in technical depth and sustained leadership inside a high-assurance environment. In consulting-adjacent and complex delivery contexts, this combination of expertise and team leadership supports consistent governance, strong engineering standards, and disciplined implementation of security requirements.
Maxime Gressier — Information Technology and Cybersecurity Manager and Chief Information Security Officer, Rainbow Partners Group
Maxime Gressier operates as an Information Technology and Cybersecurity Manager and Chief Information Security Officer at Rainbow Partners Group, combining infrastructure ownership with security governance. His scope covers information security management system alignment with ISO 27001:2022, policy definition and continuous improvement, and executive-level security justification. He also works across risk and compliance, supplier contract security integration, identity and access management via Microsoft Entra ID, simulated phishing, and incident supervision using Microsoft 365 Defender—bringing a practical, hands-on security posture suited to fast-paced client delivery organisations.
Gilles Becavin — Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Croisac Consulting
Gilles Becavin combines technology and security leadership at Croisac Consulting, covering security responsibility alongside technical direction. His stated focus includes zero trust policy implementation and practical control domains such as customer identity and access management, multi-factor authentication, privileged access management tooling, and email security. In a consulting setting, this blend of architecture, product-aligned security controls, and implementation support is a strong indicator of a security leader focused on actionable protections that can be deployed and operated effectively.
Protecting Trust in a High-Access Industry
Management consulting runs on access—access to systems, stakeholders, transformation plans, sensitive datasets, and decision-making processes. That same access is what makes consulting firms high-value targets and what makes security leadership uniquely demanding. The leaders featured here reflect a spectrum of strengths—from governance and risk discipline to hands-on operational security—and collectively demonstrate how France’s consulting ecosystem is building the security maturity needed to protect clients, enable delivery, and sustain trust at scale.