EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Philippe Chauffard Managing Director,
Accenture Intelligent Cloud Infrastructure
Philippe Chauffard is the Managing Director responsible for
Accenture’s Cloud and Infrastructure Services in Europe. Philippe
is responsible for both consulting and outsourcing sales, and
transformation delivery across cloud and infrastructure. Prior to this
role, Philippe led Infrastructure Services for Financial Services for
Europe and Latin America. During his 30-year career at Accenture,
Philippe has focused on architecting, delivering and operating
large-scale infrastructure solutions for multinational clients.
He has extensive cloud and infrastructure experience,
ranging from strategy to transformation, migration and
operations. Philippe has worked across all industries in
Europe, with a primary focus on Communications and
Financial Services. He has worked for clients in Europe,
North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He
holds a Master of Science degree in Physics from Ecole
Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Philippe is based in Accenture’s Sophia
Antipolis office in France.Chauffard emphasises that agility
and flexibility are essential if compa-
nies wish to survive and thrive within
their ecosystems. “The idea of the eco-
system is essential to this new cloud
economy,” he explains. “Every com-
pany is part of an ecosystem between
customers, partners, collaborators
and so on. The pressing question is how
to use cloud to become a central piece
of your ecosystem, and then use that
ecosystem to deliver the most innova-
tive possible services to your custom-
ers. This is even more strategic and im-
portant for Accenture. We are a people,
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