Franck Courbon
Managing Director (CE0)
Ethicronics
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4 years as CEO Ethicronics (Cambridge) - Trusted electronics and Trusted AI Infra 3.5 years at Gemalto Security Labs (Marseille Area), 7years Postdoc/Fellow/Project Lead at the University of Cambridge,
My organisation
About me
Dr. Franck Courbon, MPhil. (University of Glasgow), MRes. (INSA Lyon), MEng. (Telecom St Etienne), PhD. (Mines de St-Etienne) is a Franco-British expert in hardware-enabled cybersecurity, committed to building a future of more secure, privacy-aware, and sustainable electronics – at scale. After 3.5 years at Gemalto (now Thales-DIS), a global leader in digital security and 7 years at the University of Cambridge Security/Computer Architecture Groups, Dr. Courbon founded Ethicronics Ltd in 2022, a Cambridge-based startup with ~£1M in secured funding across a £408k DASA (UK MoD) project involving Thales UK and a £2.5M InnovateUK UK-South Korea bi-lateral project involving the University of Oxford and a 3 years old $220M valued South Korean leader in memory technology (for datacenter and beyond).
Skills
- software
- Hardware
- electronics
- Hardware Security
- Microelectronics
- international project
Interests
- software
- supply chain
- Hardware Security
- tamper evidence
- Transport
- high value electronics