Yves Audebert
Yves Audebert is currently Chairman and CEO of AxiaD, a business-consulting firm he founded in 2009.
Yves has 28 years of executive experience in building and leading worldwide organizations. His experience covers from the creation of innovative products in a start-up environment to the development and implementation of winning growth strategies in publicly traded corporations.
He has been sitting on Boards of Directors for 20 years, acquiring experience in corporate governance of private as well public companies.
Before the creation of AxiaD, Yves was President of ActivIdentity (previously ActivCard), a company he co-founded to develop and market network security products. Over the years, he led the company in several executive positions including Chairman of the Board, CEO, President, COO and CTO.
ActivIdentity was listed on NASDAQ in 2000, raised $300M and became the leading provider of smart card based Identity Assurance products selling millions of licenses to most US Government agencies (DoD, GSA, NASA, VA, FBI, ...), as well as Fortune 1000 companies around the world.
He holds a multidisciplinary Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, and Economics from Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and a MS in telecommunications from ENST Paris.
