Jean-Marc GUYOT is Vice-President of Engineering for IDnow Group, a Company that provides a secure and intuitive identity verification platform.Jean-Marc is in charge of the combined Research and Development teams at IDnow group, with the aim of driving best in class engineering teams and meeting the group’s ambitions of leading the way in identity verification. His main responsibility will be the further unification and development of one joint platform for the European market.Jean-Marc also founded and is President & CEO of Softurion, a software company dedicated to providing professional double-entry financial software to individuals who seek to manage & control their personal finances.Prior to IDnow, Jean-Marc held the position of Vice-President of Engineering at WALLIX Group, a cyber security software vendor, creating the second R&D center in Rennes, and driving the Company's global R&D and transition to agility.Before, he was Vice-President Business Unit Telecom at Enensys Technologies, where he spearheaded the transition from hardware products to fully virtualized, scalable and distributed solutions, while incubating and developing ENENSYS Telecom Business Unit, in charge of LTE Broadcast technology. Before, he was the Video Product Line Director of the Broadcast business unit at Silicon Labs, a leading semiconductor company, based in Austin, Texas. He held this position in Austin from 2006 to 2011, following the successful management of the sale of Silembia, the french-based silicon IP company he created in 2004 along with 3 partners.Prior to founding Silembia, Jean-Marc held senior management positions at NXP (4 years) and LSI Logic (5 years). Jean-Marc is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris – France) and from Telecom ParisTech (Paris – France). Jean-Marc also attended the ESSEC-Philips Executive MBA for Top potentials during his tenure within Philips Semiconductors.Specialties: • Senior positions in High Tech Business Management, managing Profit & Loss entities• Board exposure• Successful creator of 2 high-tech startups. Thriving in Innovation• Hardware and Software Development• Experience in start-up and publicly traded companies. Strong international exposure• Domain expertise in Semiconductor, Digital TV, Telecom and CE markets.• Cross-functional expertise in Management, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Software