Jérôme Sion, Contactless & Mobile Commerce Director, Gemalto

Jérôme Sion is director for contactless and m-commerce activities in the mobile communications segment at Gemalto. In charge of the contactless global offering, Jérôme’s brief is to support mobile operators and service providers in leveraging the full potential of NFC (Near Field Communication) and related services. Jérôme Sion joined Schlumberger’s smart cards division in 1997, where he held various marketing positions, including Product Manager for security, payTV and new technologies. Since 2000, he has been dedicated to the business development of mobile communications, serving successively the Europe Middle East Africa region as marketing director and then France, Belgium and Luxemburg as country manager. He then became director of business development for mobile communications, where he had the opportunity to oversee many aspects of the mobile communications business, working and developing the multimedia offer in particular. Jérôme holds an engineering degree and an MBA from EM Lyon.