Christian Deutsch is ILOG's chief quality officer, responsible for establishing companywide quality controls. This includes capturing and monitoring business processes that affect ILOG's performance and risk management. In addition, Deutsch also ensures ILOG's compliance with new global corporate-governance requirements. He brings over 28 years of technology-industry experience to the position.
During his five-year tenure at ILOG, Deutsch most recently held the position of vice president and general manager of European sales. Previously, he served as general manager of the former Value Chain Management business division. Before that, Deutsch was vice president of operations, director of strategic partnerships and program director for ILOG Professional Services.
Prior to joining ILOG in 1998, Deutsch served as co-chief executive officer of OPEFORM. There, he developed the consulting company's business plan and provided implementation support for IT solutions in the transportation industry. Acting as OPEFORM's research manager, Deutsch led multidisciplinary business analysis projects for private, national, European and international organizations. Most of these projects were driven by safety, compliance and quality issues.
Deutsch also held the position of chief technology officer at ERAAM, an IT services provider, which was later acquired by Lockheed Martin.
From 1973 to 1983, Deutsch held the positions of researcher and professor of mathematics at Paris University. He is also a member of several professional societies, including IALA, UNIDO and IMO.
Deutsch earned doctoral and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Paris. |