Pierre-Francois Vilquin (PF)

Pierre-Francois (PF) Vilquin has a comprehensive work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Pierre-Francois (PF) started their career as a Services and Presales Consultant at Platinum Technology in 1998. From there, they worked at Netegrity as a Sr. Systems Engineer and later as a Sr. Architect. Pierre-Francois (PF) then became the Technical Manager for Asia Pacific & Japan at Netegrity, leading a team across multiple countries and driving customer growth. Vilquin joined CA Technologies in 2005 and took on various leadership roles such as Executive Security Director, Presales Director, Director of Technical Sales, and Director and CTO of the Technical Sales Organization. Pierre-Francois (PF) was also selected as a member of the CA High Potential Employee development program. In 2015, Vilquin joined Symphony.com as the Technical Account Management, VP for Japan & Asia before becoming the Head of Technical Account Management for the Asia Pacific & Japan region in 2020. Throughout their career, Vilquin focused on pre-sales operational improvement, sales integration, sales strategy, business acumen, technical proficiency, and partner integration.

Pierre-Francois (PF) Vilquin has a comprehensive education history in various fields. Pierre-Francois (PF) attended ECE, Ecole d'ingénieurs, an engineering school, from 1994 to 1997. During their time there, they obtained a degree in engineering with a specialization in radio communications and networks. Additionally, they earned an engineering diploma/master of engineering in networks and radio communications from the same institution.

Before that, from 1990 to 1993, Vilquin studied at Lycee Le Courvoisier in Aubervilliers, where they pursued a degree known as Math Sup T, which involved a classe préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles, a preparatory course for prestigious French higher education institutions.

Going further back, Vilquin completed their Baccalauréat C (Maths & Sciences) at Jacques Decour from 1984 to 1990.

In addition to their academic degrees, Vilquin has obtained several certifications. These include becoming a Symphony Certified Associate Developer from Symphony in August 2021, completing the Amazon Web Services for Data Science course at Lynda.com in October 2016, obtaining the PHP for Web Designers certification from Lynda.com in October 2016, and achieving certifications in Python 3 Essential Training, Up and Running with Python, Google Cloud Platform Essential Training, Java Platforms Compared: SE vs EE vs ME, NoSQL for SQL Professionals, Up and Running with Go, Node.js First Look, PRINCE2 Fundamentals, jQuery Data with AJAX, and jQuery UI Widgets from Lynda.com between 2015 and 2016.

Finally, Vilquin participated in the NUS - CA Technologies General Management Program offered by the National University of Singapore and CA Technologies in August 2014.