Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO, Qualys Philippe Courtot has repeatedly demonstrated his talent for transforming small, innovative companies into industry leaders. As Chairman and CEO of Signio, an electronic payment startup, he repositioned the company to become a significant e-commerce player, and in February 2000 it was acquired by VeriSign in a purchase transaction worth in excess of a billion dollars. Prior to Signio, Mr. Courtot was President and CEO of Verity, where he re-engineered the company to become the leader in enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions and directed the company's initial public offering in November 1995. Mr. Courtot also turned an unknown company of 12 people, cc:Mail, into the dominant e-mail platform provider, achieving a 40% market share while competing directly against IBM and Microsoft, and successfully sold the company to Lotus in 1991. In 1977, as CEO of Thomson CGR Medical, a medical imaging company, he received the Benjamin Franklin award for his role in the creation of a nationwide advertising campaign promoting the life-saving benefits of mammography. In 2002, Mr. Courtot was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for The Internet Society (ISOC), the international non-profit that serves as the focal point for global cooperation and coordination on the development of the Internet. French and Basque born, he holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris and has lived in Silicon Valley since 1987. Contact Us Home