France’s real estate sector blends high-value transactions, long-lived assets, and heavy operational complexity—property management networks, tenant data, payments, building systems, and large third-party ecosystems. Security leaders here have to protect sensitive personal and financial information while enabling always-on operations across agencies, field teams, and partners, often with legacy platforms and fast digital modernization running in parallel.
Bruno Durst — RSSI /Chief Information Security Officer, Groupe Valophis
Bruno Durst serves as RSSI / CISO at Groupe Valophis, bringing long-term continuity across the organization’s technology and security evolution. With deep operational experience—previously leading infrastructure within production for many years—he’s positioned to align security practices with the realities of day-to-day IT operations. His profile reflects a hands-on, enterprise security approach grounded in infrastructure, access control, and business continuity, shaped by early leadership experience managing dedicated information systems security experts in consulting.
Gaspard Orieux — Chief Information Security Officer, Crédit Agricole Immobilier
Gaspard Orieux is Chief Information Security Officer at Crédit Agricole Immobilier, with a background built inside highly regulated financial services environments. Before moving into real estate, he held multiple security roles at BNP Paribas, including leading information systems security and control and working in audit and expert functions. This blend of governance, control discipline, and audit experience is particularly valuable in real estate groups that must manage vendor risk, protect customer and tenant data, and prove security maturity through measurable controls.
Nicolas Hanteville — Chief information Security Officer, Klépierre
Nicolas Hanteville is Chief information security officer at Klépierre, with experience spanning a wide range of operational environments—from telecoms and banking to government and energy, alongside real estate. His background includes deep technical security expertise, training experience in advanced cryptography and security, and prior leadership in security operations centre responsibilities. That mix of practitioner depth and enterprise security leadership is well suited to large real estate portfolios where the threat surface includes corporate IT, retail/tenant ecosystems, and increasingly connected building environments.
Franck Perillier — Group Chief Information Security Officer, Emeria
Franck Perillier is Group Chief Information Security Officer at Emeria, a major European residential real estate services player. His profile signals a strong blend of security leadership and enterprise architecture experience, supporting the operational realities of large property services networks—many branches, multiple brands, and high transaction volumes. With prior CISO experience in hospitality and years in regional information security roles and architecture leadership, he brings a perspective shaped by large-scale service delivery, resilience, and protecting customer trust across distributed operations.
Romain Lachaux — Group Chief Information Security Officer, Icade
Romain Lachaux is Group Chief Information Security Officer at Icade, operating in a role that reflects deep hands-on security leadership across multiple organisations. His experience includes serving as CISO in prior engagements and holding deputy CISO and IT production management responsibilities earlier in his career—an important pairing in real estate groups where platform reliability and security execution must move together. With a background that includes security expert and network/security engineering work, he brings an operator’s lens to scaling security governance and controls.
Nicolas Pellegrin — Chief Information Security Officer / Responsable sécurité des systèmes d’information, Nexity
Nicolas Pellegrin serves as Chief information security Officer / Responsable sécurité des systèmes d’information at Nexity. His profile reflects a long-standing, security-first career across major French enterprises, with experience leading security functions and programs over many years. The combination of strategic leadership and strong security engineering foundations—covering governance and frameworks as well as operational credibility—fits the demands of real estate firms that must protect identity, data flows, and partner integrations across sales, property management, and customer services.
Securing Property, Platforms, and People
Real estate security is no longer just about protecting corporate systems—it’s about safeguarding tenant and customer data, keeping transaction and property operations running, and managing risk across sprawling partner ecosystems and increasingly connected environments. The leaders featured here represent the mix France’s real estate sector needs: operational security discipline, governance and audit strength, and the ability to steer modernization without breaking trust or continuity.