Jacques Ariel Sirat

Vice-president "Systems & Products Architecture & Engineering", EADS, Europe

Since 2007, Jacques Ariel Sirat belongs to EADS CTO organization, where he is VP Global Innovation Network for “Systems & Products Architecture & Engineering”. He chairs the EADS Systems Engineering Steering Group, which coordinates all EADS activities in Systems Engineering, including strategy, benchmarking, processes maturity assessment, best practices sharing, training and certification, standardization, R&T, and technical policies. Scope of his activities also includes software engineering, communications, guidance, navigation & control, simulation, and in-service support. In one of his previous positions, he headed the Image & Signal processing Laboratory (LTIS, now within EADS), which developed the image chain of the French intelligence satellites Helios, and of the Scalp-Storm Shadow cruise missile. In 2002, his team received the “Prix Science et Défense” from French MoD for those achievements. He is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X80), has got a PhD in Solid State Physics, and a MBA.