Mobile World Congress 2025

Florence Verzelen is Dassault Systèmes Executive Vice President in charge of Industry, Marketing & Sustainability since 2018. Her role is to grow the portfolio of solutions & significantly increase the revenues of Dassault Systèmes in the 12 industries it serves, in order to achieve sustainable growth and rapid business development. To this end, she focuses on creating "forward looking" industrial solutions that will help all industrial players to transform through digitalization. Florence has also created the sustainability function within Dassault Systèmes, with the vision that digital solutions can help transform the industries for them to become more sustainable. She is also leading Dassault Systèmes service organization, transforming its business model towards "outcome based" solutions.

Before this latest appointment, Florence was working at Engie, a world leader in the energy sector holding different positions, as Business Development Vice President, Engie Qatar CEO, Performance Plan Vice President and finally Engie Europe COO.

Florence has an extensive experience in both public & private sector, having held different positions in the European Commission and the French Administration.

She is also an experienced board member, currently at Nexity, France's leader in real estate development and services, CNES, the French Space Agency, France 2030, the Advisory Body of the French Government on his Industrial Strategy & Institute Montaigne, the leading think tank in France. Florence is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique / Corps des Mines.

Stéphane SIREAU is Vice President, High-Tech Industry, at Dassault Systèmes, responsible for helping high-tech companies digitally transform by using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to build virtual twin experiences.

Stéphane SIREAU has over 20 years of experience working in the high-tech space. Based in Silicon Valley, he led the launch in 2016 of GE Digital’s alliance program in Europe to create new cloud-based industrial IOT solutions. In 2012 he co-founded Orange Mobile Enterprise, Orange’s business unit dedicated to mobility and IOT solutions. As a globally-minded executive, Stéphane has lived and worked in the USA, Europe, and Asia. In 2009 Stéphane set up Orange Institute, a global think-tank dedicated to digital innovation. Prior to that, he worked for 4 years in China where he pioneered Orange’s supply chain management in Asia, including its first program of sustainability audits. In his latest role, Stéphane worked at DNV, one of the world’s leading assurance companies, leading global sales of digital assurance, sustainability, and supply chain solutions.

Stéphane is a British-French dual national and lives in the Paris region. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a graduate of ICADE-ICAI (Spain). He received an Executive MBA with distinction from INSEAD and Tsinghua University (China) in 2009.