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Chief Executive Officer
Cyril-Alexandre PACHON
Head of Technology and AI
Valerie Blanchard
Manager of European Operations
Sara Agarwal
Head of Global Growth
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Mohamed TLICH
Chief Executive Officer
About Mohamed TLICH
In 2021, Mohamed Tlich took over as CEO of Luceor, a global leader in specialized connectivity solutions for both mobile and fixed applications. Today, Luceor is supporting clients in 15 different countries in a broad array of markets, with offices across France, the Middle East, and North and Subsaharan Africa. Luceor is part of the Novatel IT Group of companies, delivering innovative IT, telecommunications, and engineering services to its customers.
Back In 2008, Mohamed co-founded his first networking company, Codintek. Codintek provided custom commercial wireless communications services for industrial, military, telecommunications, and oil & gas clients for many years. Building on the success of this initiative, he integrated Codintek’s innovative engineering resources with Luceor’s wireless mesh technology (Wimesh) product applications to advance Luceor’s approach to innovation. Luceor has since expanded its product offering to include Hybrid Mesh networks and continues to innovate.
With 16 patents and 30+ publications, Mohamed is an expert in the development and implementation of new wireless communication techniques to increase system throughput and communication distances, increase network density, reduce power consumption, mitigate interference and optimize network utilization. He enjoys helping enterprise customers meet their unique wireless communication needs, which often include smart mesh, microwave, IoT, 5G, and other digital communication applications. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Telecom Paris.
Mohamed started off his career as an Engineer in Digital Signal Processing at Orange, where he designed and developed measuring devices for field service technicians that resulted in a 15x reduction in cost compared to previous solutions and are still used today by thousands of Orange technicians in multiple countries.
Cyril-Alexandre PACHON
Head of Technology and AI
About Cyril-Alexandre PACHON
Cyril-Alexandre Pachon has over 16 years of experience as a professor and researcher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robotics. In that regard, he is currently the director of Technology and AI within Luceor.
During his early research work, he helped to pioneer the standardization of computer program robustness testing. He developed a tool that checks the conformity of programs by modeling them, and then providing an automatic solution to ensure a program’s good behavior in the case of detected failures.
In December 2020, Cyril, along with his functions as director of the Grenoble Campus, became a professor and the AI curriculum director at Hexagone, a computer-engineering school that offers three specialties: Information Technology (IT), AI, and Cyberdefense.
Prior to that, Cyril became the director of the “Make it Real” robotics laboratory in 2012. He created, built, and ran an inter-campus robotics competition. The idea is to have a 24-hour robotics hackathon. The teams use the game board to learn about the problem and then design a robot to resolve it.
Cyril holds a PhD in Computer Science, Systems and Communication from the University of Grenoble.
Valerie Blanchard
Manager of European Operations
About Valerie Blanchard
Valerie Blanchard is currently responsible for managing the company’s European operations, including partner and distributor relations. She has over 20 years of experience in sales operations.
Having been part of the company since 2012, Valerie has supported numerous client engagements, from the first major port systems (Port du Havre) to the French federal police (RAID), to global engagements like the Interior Ministry of Togo. She has led the development of many of Luceor’s key partnerships in France. Today Valerie’s goal is to ensure successful delivery of Luceor products and services throughout Europe.
Prior to joining Luceor, Valerie spent 15 years working in sales with software publishers (such as MathWorks, Aspect Software). She was a critical participant in the launch of MathWorks’ French subsidiary and helped the company to grow significantly. She similarly helped Aspect Software, a U.S. based firm, to grow its new French subsidiary and offices in Paris. She also created her own cosmetic company and ensured successful distribution for 8 years.
Sara Agarwal
Head of Global Growth
About Sara Agarwal
With 25 years experience international business experience, Sara is known for her work helping technology companies expand revenue growth and improve business outcomes, often at a completely new level. She is passionate about creating the systems, strategy and structure needed to build and sustain revenue growth. In that regard, she is currently leading Luceor’s efforts to build on the company’s earlier successes and enter new markets with groundbreaking technology.
Sara spent more than 10 years at blue chip tech firms such as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, and Verizon where she focused on business development, channel sales, and marketing. More recently, she was Vice President of Operations at Indr, a SaaS software company focused on enabling better digital transformation, where she helped create and implement a partnership with a Fortune 50 company. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Business Development at ISC, a midsize nonprofit organization, where she developed/led efforts to broaden revenue streams through the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of critical new external funders. As a Director at Hewlett Packard, she helped build and run an entirely new global business development team, overseeing $100m in annual revenue and a 35% YOY increase in win rates.
Additional experience includes her time with Microsoft Corporation in Africa, where she advised African governments on the use of technology to support economic growth and served as Chief of Staff to Microsoft’s Chairman for Africa. As a consultant, she helped Verizon’s Innovation lab to pursue U.S. based corporate partnerships for a $75m digital identity business and led IEEE’s first effort to hold a Connecting the Unconnected competition and summit, attended by over 800 people with 250 applications.
She spent several years of her career with two different donor institutions (the African Development Bank and the North American Development Bank), overseeing large scale development projects in Africa, Latin America, and the United States.
Sara holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was awarded the Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship for academic achievement, public service, and potential for future leadership. She also holds a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of International Service and teaches a masters level course called Private Sector and Social Impact, which focuses on issues of corporate social responsibility.
Sara has published in The Next Web, Stanford’s Social Innovation Review, and the IMF’s Finance and Development Magazine. She has a patent pending for an education solution linking adaptive learning content and assessments, and is a board member of an award-winning school she co-founded in the District of Columbia in the United States.
