Pascale Vicat-Blanc

Founder and CEO

Pascale Vicat-Blanc is founder and CEO of Lyatiss and brings more than 20 years of experience in networking and cloud computing technologies. Before founding Lyatiss, Vicat-Blanc was research director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) and Professor in Computer Science at the University of Lyon. Pascale held a number of leadership roles in her career, including CIO of a Grid 5000 Data Center, team leader at INRIA-Bell Labs and project manager with CERN in France.

Pascale earned a Master of Science degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the National Institute of Applied Science and University of Lyon. Pascale also is the recipient of the Innovation award of the Academy of Science, INRIA and Dassault System (2013), National Women Enterprise award from the Ministry of Research and EADS Foundation (2011); the Legion of Honor medal (2010) and Startup Creation & Development award from the Ministry of Research and OSEO (2009, 2010).

Ankit Agarwal

VP of Product

Ankit Agarwal is vice president of Product. Prior to Lyatiss, he was associate vice president of Engineering at OPNET Technologies. Agarwal built and ran the product development teams for Sentinel (network and security compliance) and NetMapper (network diagramming and documentation). He helped build the products from the ground up and led the entire product development life cycle.

Agarwal is the co-inventor on a number of pending and issued patents. He received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a dual focus on Computer Networking and Software Engineering and his BS from the University of Mumbai with a focus on Statistics.

Sebastien Soudan

Founder and CTO

Sebastien Soudan is founder and chief technical officer of Lyatiss, and brings his outstanding technical expertise in bandwidth sharing, network scheduling, optical networks, network economics and game theory. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Soudan graduated from l’Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2005 and obtained his PhD in 2009 from l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

In 2009, Soudan won the Marconi “Young Scholars” Prize for his work on dynamic bandwidth provisioning.

Vincent Nicosia

VP of Sales

Vincent Nicosia is a seasoned and proven professional with years of comprehensive experience in technology sales, marketing, business development, strategic planning, channels, consulting services in companies like: CloudComputingConsultingExperts.Com / PowerIron, CaminoSoft, NetApp, NetManage, and EDS.

Vincent holds a Master’s degree in Management and Administration (Thesis in IP Telephony) and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Criminal Justice (Computer Crime). He is a professional public speaker in TV, radio, seminars and educational workshops. Vincent has extensive cloud computing and security knowledge.