Christophe Bourguignat

Christophe Bourguignat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zelros, a company that specializes in AI for augmented insurers. Christophe has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and big data industries.

Bourguignat began their career as a software engineer at ERCOM, a telecom regulation agency. Christophe quickly rose through the ranks, becoming the Big Data Product & Strategy Technical Manager, Branch Director, and Business Unit Technical Manager. In these roles, they were responsible for features definition, machine learning algorithms development, roadmap establishment, pricing policy setting, fundraising, P&L monitoring, and pre-sales / sales / R&D / operations synchronization.

After a strategic reorganization, Bourguignat was tasked with leading a newly created security Business Unit (45 people / 2 digits M€ revenues), including sales, R&D and operations. Under their leadership, the Business Unit was successfully able to reach its revenue and profitability objectives, and they also oversaw the first sales of a new product line and the signature of the largest contract in the history of the company.

In their next role as Big Data Lead at AXA - Data Innovation Lab, Bourguignat was responsible for bringing together the latest technological tools and a team of experts in innovation, data and data science to enable the Group to execute Big Data projects.

Most recently, Bourguignat served as Customer Facing Data Scientist at DataRobot for 4 months before returning to their current role as Co-Founder and CEO of Zelros.

Christophe Bourguignat attended Supélec from 1997-2000, earning a Master of Science. Christophe then attended Université Paris Sud (Paris XI) from 1999-1999, earning a DEA in Traitement du signal et automatique.

The team that Christophe Bourguignat works with is small, and the following people report to him: Fabien Vauchelles (Co-Founder & CTO), Paul-Henri Chabrol (VP, Product), Ann Musgrave (Director of Strategic Alliances), Linh Ho (Chief Marketing Officer), and Damien Philippon (Co-Founder & COO).