SPEAKER: PHILIPPE DREYFUS

Philippe Dreyfus is Vice-Chairman of CAP Gemini Sogeti and a Director of Sogeti, the holding company of CAP Gemini Sogeti, one of the world's leading software companies. He is also special adviser to the Chairman and the Chief Executive of Sogeti.

Philippe Dreyfus graduated in Physics in 1950 from Ecole de Physique et Chimie de Paris and joined Professor Howard Aiken's Computation Laboratory at Harvard University, using Mark I the first automatic computer ever built.
In 1958, he was appointed Director of Bull Scientific Computing Centre before co-founding Societe d'Informatique Appliqué, a large-scale scientific computing centre, and a subsidiary of SEMA.

In 1965, he became Director of CAP Europe, an Anglo-French software company as well as a Director of CAP France and CAP UK, parent companies of CAP Europe. In 1975 after the merger of CAP France and CAP Europe with Sogeti and the subsequent acquisition of Gemini Inc. (USA), he became Vice-Chairman of Sogeti a position he has held since.

Apart from writing numerous books on IT and teaching on most IT related subjects at universities in France and the USA, Philippe Dreyfus is a Council Member of ECSA (European Computing Services Association) and was the founder of Syntec Informatique, the French computing services trade association.

In 1962, he invented and defined the French language word Informatique and in 1990 introduced the word and concept of Informativity