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IT / IS & Digital Executive — Projects & Transformations
CIO · CDO · CTO · Program Director · IT COO · CISO
+33 6 37 54 97 59 · patrick.eymard@actifit.pro · www.actifit.pro
linkedin.com/in/patrick-eymard-transition-cio-cdo-cto-dg · English TOEIC 945, Linguaskill C1 · Internationally mobile
July 2026
Reassuring, transformative and effective. I am the pragmatic, people-first digital executive you need: carrying your vision, serving your business lines and mobilizing your teams (CIO, CDO, CTO, IT managing director, CISO).
35 yrs
IT EXPERIENCE
15 yrs
EXECUTIVE ROLES
€450M
LARGEST SCOPE
1,450 p.
MATRIX MANAGEMENT
Group IT Operations Director
MISSION — Run all of Group IT Operations: operations, outsourcing, infrastructure, datacenters, networks, multi-country service levels, banking compliance (ECB, PCI DSS, DORA, BCBS 239) and business continuity.
RESULTS — Took over the international IT operations chain, budget and vendor steering across 26 countries, steering indicators (SLA, OLA, satisfaction), operational committees, secured production changes, close coordination with Cybersecurity (DORA).
Group CTO / Interim manager
MISSION — Take over pre-sales, R&D and development of the Observability line; put struggling clients back on track.
RESULTS — Recovered the APAVE, SAFRAN, CASTORAMA, ENGIE and ADP accounts. Industrialized the SOMONE Cockpit. AI partnerships. Proposals for SENUM, GS2E, Nice Airport.
Group CIO / Fractional manager
MISSION — Take back control of services to the business units, re-energize the operational ERP rollout, create a security policy.
RESULTS — Audit of practices and infrastructure. Relaunched EBP rollouts (DEBARLE, KTL). IT/security services tender. IT/security governance.
CISO / Fractional manager
MISSION — Define and carry the IS security policy, run cyber governance at board level, steer audits, risks and incidents, drive compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001).
RESULTS — Risk mapping, remediation plan, awareness training, steering of cyber providers (SOC, security operations), security committees, client audit preparation.
CIO coach / Interim manager
MISSION — Build an industrialization plan for the IT department and the technology platform; review several struggling key files.
RESULTS — Service catalog across IT/IS. Seminar to re-anchor business objectives. Six-month heartbeat. Budget review v1 and 2026 objectives.
Group CIO + CSR Director / Interim manager
MISSION — Court-ordered receivership: take over the team, refocus the master plan, BI, roadmap and industrialization ahead of a 2025 sale.
RESULTS — Ran IT, cyber and CSR at board level. Cut all IT vendor costs. Recovered the SAGE X3 (ERP) project. 30/90/120/2025 plans. Staffed 10% of the team in 3 months. Recovered TMS, Mobility, WMS, ERP and HRIS projects. Passed ADEME and ISO 26000 audits.
Group CTO / Interim manager
MISSION — Take over HQ and international teams, draft the infrastructure and cybersecurity master plan, recover structuring projects (M2C, DC, M&A) and outsourcing contracts.
RESULTS — Closed LENOVO, DELL, PAN/OCD negotiations; launched with Microsoft (MACC, EA SRS). FinOps and Cloud master plans. DATA integration platform. Industrialized the M&A program (Portugal, India). BI, SAP/HANA, D365 projects. Passed the ISO 27001 audit, contributed to ISO 9001.
CIO / Interim manager
MISSION — Run the IT department day to day (NOZ and VEO), remobilize international teams, adapt the pre-COVID master plan for strong growth.
RESULTS — Master plan rebuilt and approved (executive committee, steering committee, business collectives). Launched the SAP/HANA migration in absolute operational continuity. Savings plan, replaced point-of-sale software and hardware.
CIO + CISO / Interim manager
MISSION — Run the IT department and the CISO scope pending an internal hire; deploy "Shared IT" models; study an IFS-to-SAP/Microsoft migration.
RESULTS — Handed over to the permanent SII CIO. Passed the ISO 27001 audit.
IT Operations master-plan consultant
MISSION — Produce the 2022-2024 master plan for the IT Operations Directorate.
RESULTS — Master plan consolidated and approved from the teams up to the board. PCI DSS and ECB (BCBS 239) compliance.
CTO + CISO / Interim manager
MISSION — Cover the absent CTO's and CISO's recurring duties and the TSIA transformation plan / Volvo Group carve-out.
RESULTS — Successful transition to the new CTO. Automated KPI/KVI. TSIA approved through 2025 with VOLVO and HCL. Started the SAP study with central Volvo teams and TCS. Maintained the security posture in a defense context (IGI 1300).
CDO / Interim manager
MISSION — Renew management processes and tools (HR, Finance, CRM, Projects, Intranet): analysis, requirements, tender, target-ERP studies.
RESULTS — All deliverables on time (engagement won against E&Y). DATA-strategy impact studies (PCI DSS, ECB BCBS 239 audit).
Operations Director + CISO
MISSION — Manage all operations (user environment, infrastructure and networks, methods and BI) through the Orano / Framatome separation; carry the CISO role.
RESULTS — Took over the team, met financial and operational targets. IS lead for Areva business transformations. Prepared the SAP/HANA migration. ISO 27001, French critical-infrastructure law (LPM) and IEC 62645 compliance.
CIO + CISO + deputy BU CIO
MISSION — Entrepreneurial development of the IT departments in service of the business; IS security across INEO and ENDEL.
RESULTS — Master plans built with the business, tangible results at CxO level. Business IT service catalog, DATA/BI strategy. Full audit of Intermarché France sites. ISO 27001 compliance.
CTO + CISO, Energy Services Branch
MISSION — Steer every evolution and milestone for the branch's four entities and structure IS security.
RESULTS — From state of the art to maximum industrialization (service catalog, automation, EUEM, satisfaction, lower costs). SAP on HANA migration — second in France — jointly with Decathlon. Practices migrated to ISO 27001.
IT Operations Director + CISO
MISSION — Newton program: run THALES' internal outsourcing through THALES SERVICES with operational excellence and compliance; carry the CISO role.
RESULTS — Newton contract signed by Thales Group France divisions. Operational steering team. SAP ECC migration to the latest version (DLJ). ISO 9001 and 27001 compliance.
Project Manager / Director · Talents program
MISSION — Write the Newton contract (TMC Talents program); run the DLJ outsourcing by Thales Services.
RESULTS — Built the offers and ran TS outsourcing (Orange, Thales internal). TMC promotion (18 months). Thales Land and Joint outsourcing (2.5 years). Promoted to Thales senior executive (NR10).
Project manager, Systems lead, Purchasing — exploratory phase
PATH — Built technical skills (up to L3 Systems/Networks/Security), then people skills (1998), across highly varied missions and contexts. Decided in 1998 to focus on my two professional drivers: management and client service.