Sylvain Chafer

Sylvain Chafer is an accomplished Embedded Software Engineering Director at Thales since April 2019, with extensive experience in embedded systems across various sectors. Prior roles at Gemalto included R&D Director overseeing banking, retail, and transport products, as well as responsibilities in EMV applications and innovative embedded software technologies. Sylvain also served as an R&D Unit Manager for telecom embedded products and held a project manager and embedded software architect position at Schlumberger focusing on telecom embedded solutions. Beginning the career as a research engineer at Alcatel, Sylvain holds a degree from INSA Lyon, completed between 1993 and 1995.