Gilles Trachsel

EMEA Vice President QuintessenceLabs

As EMEA Area Vice President, Gilles Trachsel is responsible for managing all QLabs Sales activities and business development across the EMEA theatre. Gilles brings to the role over 28 years of international sales, strategic business development, pre-sales, technical and product marketing experience, covering different topics, like Enterprise networking and security in general, cryptography, switching, routing, mobility, data centre, SDN and more. Before joining QLabs, Gilles worked at ID Quantique for 6 years, holding various functions and responsibilities, and gaining a solid expertise in Quantum Cryptography and QRNG, with major successful worldwide market introductions for both technologies. Previously, Gilles spent more than 10 years at Juniper Networks Ltd., being responsible for the product and solutions marketing for the whole Enterprise portfolio throughout the EMEA region. He was also in charge of the Advanced Technologies division at Juniper, covering Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Prior to this, Gilles held several EMEA and Asia Pacific positions with Peribit Networks (successful US startup), U.S. Robotics and 3Com. Gilles holds a master's degree in telecommunication from the largest University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland