The Talent (R)Evolution: Building a Career in Cybersecurity (Panel)

The Trust Valley is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting the excellence of the Lake Geneva region in the field of digital trust and cybersecurity.

Public authorities, academic institutions and economic players are joining forces to promote this unique centre of expertise and encourage the emergence of innovative projects.

With over 15 years of experience in IT and security, Grégory has a proven track record of leading sophisticated security strategies. He recently served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), where he spearheaded their cybersecurity efforts.

Previously, Grégory was a cybersecurity consultant providing insights across multiple industries, including defense, NGOs, manufacturing, luxury goods, energy, and banking.

Grégory is a distinguished cybersecurity expert whose extensive expertise is instrumental in enhancing our product security, fostering innovation, and deploying Multi-Party Computation (MPC) encryption across our global customer base.

Cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, governance, and risk management, currently serving as CEO of Ducksify.

Throughout his career, he has helped organizations—from startups to hypergrowth companies and large enterprises—design and implement robust security and compliance programs that meet regulatory expectations while remaining pragmatic, scalable, and aligned with business needs.

Known for turning cybersecurity into a business enabler, he focuses on building security maturity, navigating complex regulatory landscapes, and delivering impactful, execution-driven strategies. At Ducksify, he is advancing this vision through the Panop.io platform and a new approach to cyber exposure management.

Sandra Pichon has 10+ years of experience within the Kudelski Group, a company specialized in Security. She led an international engineering department of 40 people before transitioning into cybersecurity four years ago, initially as a Business Process Director. She then moved into the role of Business Unit Information Security Officer, strengthening governance and security strategy at the business unit level.

Six months ago, she joined a Swiss bank as Chief Information Security Officer, where she now oversees cybersecurity strategy and risk management in a highly regulated environment.

Geovani Rizk is CEO and co-founder of Anyway Systems, an EPFL spin-off building software that allows organizations to deploy and run large AI models securely on their own infrastructure. His work focuses on enabling powerful AI capabilities without relying on external cloud providers, ensuring data privacy, sovereignty, and operational control.

In parallel, he is a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL’s Distributed Computing Laboratory, where he studies robustness and safety in distributed machine learning systems. Geovani holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, where his research focused on multi-agent learning on graphs.