ECSO Cyber Investor Days in London 2025

5 Jun 2025 | London, Uk, United Kingdom

Franck Courbon

Chief Executive Officer

Ethicronics

Cambridge, United Kingdom

1 profile visitCybersecurity Provider

3.5years at Gemalto Security Labs (Marseille Area), 7years Postdoc/Fellow/Project Lead at the University of Cambridge, 2.5years as CEO Ethicronics (Cambridge)

My organisation

Ethicronics

Ethicronics

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ethicronics is a Cambridge-based deeptech company specialising in low-level software operating at the hardware interface to solve critical security challenges for trusted electronics. We are developing two core solutions designed to protect the integrity of hardware and data in sectors including defence, automotive, finance, telecommunications. Our first product in development is a hardware assurance platform capable of detecting tampering, cloning, or reverse engineering at the nanometer scale, covering chiplets, PCBs, and complex assemblies. This solution enables fabless companies to have verified hardware authenticity non-destructively, mitigating supply chain risks across global sourcing. Developed in collaboration with Thales UK under a UK MoD DASA grant, already gaining traction in security-sensitive industries.
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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).

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Skills

  • software
  • Hardware
  • electronics
  • Hardware Security
  • Microelectronics
  • international project