About Houssem Assadi

- 15+ years experience in IT, AI, telecommunications and Fintech. - Strong management skills: CEO since October 2012, head of a Research & Development department (100+ people) from 2005 to 2012. - Solid technology background in IT and telecoms, especially in software development, Artificial Intelligence, security and mobile services, payment technologies. - Successful projects achieved in the domain of mobile transactions: development of Orange Mobile Contactless services, using Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology ; development of Mobile Payment services dedicated to Africa / Middle-East Region ; development white-label mobile payment solutions based on the latest technologies and standards (tokenisation, NFC, QR Code...). - Multicultural project management: multi-country deployment (Europe, Africa, Middle-East), European collaborative projects... Skills: - Management: HR, budget, project portfolio management, communication. - Innovation and strategic marketing, with a focus on mobile services: Fintech, m-commerce, m-payment... - Software Engineering - Security & transaction technologies: smart cards, NFC, mobile payment, secure application management... - Artificial Intelligence, Data mining and Customer data analysis - Languages: French (native speaker), Arabic (native speaker), English, Italian