Mathieu Chatelain

Chief Information Officer Asia at Thales Group

Singapore

About

International executive experienced in a multitude of areas of Information Technology covering IT operations, enterprise service management, strategy development and execution, digital transformation, global program delivery and cyber security. Instrumental to the IT functional transformation of many global organisation where I led the operation streamlining and optimisation to significantly reduce cost while continue to deliver on high performing IT services to the businesses and customers.

Experience

  • Chief Information Officer Asia at Thales
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

    Providing leadership and strategic direction to the overall IT/IS function across Asia region

  • Head of Information Management East Asia at Airbus
    Nov 2014 - Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Provides overall management and definition of all IM activities for all Airbus Group entities located in East Asia territory. Organization - Accountable for recruitment, supervision, workforce planning, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions of IM resources Governance - Builds and proposes an IM strategy and roadmap based on divisional local requirements that is consistent with the WWS strategy - Applies and enforces Airbus Group ICT standards - Accountable to ensure that local laws and regulations are adhered to - Ensures a consistent support model across all sites - Drives the local sourcing strategy for applications, tools, support and projects in line with EGP and central standards Security - Accountable to enforce the implementation of Airbus Group Security standards and policies for all sites Services - Responsible to ensure high-level service delivery to all divisions based on SLA and budget - Responsible to gather all business needs from divisional coordinators Finance - Responsible for the IM budget in collaboration with the WWS organizations and the local divisions - Responsible for Airbus Group ICT growth strategy and cost reduction initiatives

  • IM Regional Manager Asia Pacific at Airbus Helicopters
    Feb 2011 - Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Responsible for all Airbus Helicopters Group IM activities in Asia Pacific including projects, support for core applications, enterprise systems and infrastructure integration. - Spearheaded a regional team spread in 13 countries and around 40 sites - Responsible to coordinate regional operating budget and portfolio management - Developed key relationships with local, regional and global executives to identify and leverage AH standard IM Solutions to meet current and future business needs - Orchestrated the engagement of a wide variety of cross-functional AH resources to effectively address the diverse deployment requirements of the region’s operating needs, including the deployment of a new subsidiaries or ERP systems (SAP B1, SAP AiO) - Served as the region’s representative to the AH IM community, integrating strategic plan for ongoing improvements of day-to-day AH IM operations

  • IM manager and corporate security officer at Eurocopter
    Feb 2008 - Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

    Working on the Korean Helicopter Program

  • Network engineer at Digtrad
    Oct 2005 - Apr 2006 · 7 mos

    - Conception and deployment of new network architecture - System administrator - VPN - VOIP