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Leadership Team

Meet The Team Of Leaders Guiding Our Global Growth

Executive Team

Norman Girard

Chief Executive Officer

Norman Girard CEO of EffecientIP

Norman Girard

Chief Executive Officer

Norman Girard is responsible for leading the management, strategic direction and execution of the EfficientIP vision. He also sits on the Board of Directors. Prior to EfficientIP, Norman spent 13 years as VP and General Manager for Continental Europe for Varonis, he built an $80M business and attracted over 2,000 new customers.

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Sammie Walker

Chief Marketing Officer

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Sammie Walker

Chief Marketing Officer

Sammie is an experienced marketing leader with deep expertise across cybersecurity, networking, and infrastructure software. She has held senior marketing leadership roles at Infoblox, Zimperium, Bugcrowd, and Deepwatch, where she built high-performing teams, strengthened market positioning, scaled demand generation, and led go-to-market strategy for high-growth technology companies. At EfficientIP, Sammie leads the company’s global marketing strategy, helping strengthen its market presence, deepen customer engagement, and support its next phase of growth.

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Jim Cox

Chief Revenue Officer

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Jim Cox

Chief Revenue Officer

Jim Cox is CRO at EfficientIP, leading global sales and go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 20 years of enterprise technology sales leadership, with progressive leadership roles at Cisco, VP-level positions at Proofpoint across North America and Europe, and CRO experience at Exterro where he scaled the GTM function and launched a structured partner program. Jim is based in Austin, Texas.

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Sandra De Pauliny

Chief People Officer

Sandra De Pauliny

Chief People Officer

Sandra is CPO at EfficientIP, bringing 20 years of experience in HR management, business partnering & Tech industry. She is above all a strategic business partner with ability to lead major transformations such as hyper growth with ambitious talent management plans. Prior to EfficientIP, Sandra started at Decathlon before joining Dell where she held senior positions, and then worked at BRL Group, and the Idemia Group.

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Julien Garcia

Chief Financial Officer

Julien Garcia

Chief Financial Officer

Julien is CFO at EfficientIP, managing the Finance and Legal teams for the Group. After spending 10 years within Capgemini in different finance roles and business units, he then was CFO for Prosodie and Odigo. He is a strategic business partner for the Board of Directors and operations, bringing his experience on transformational programs.

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Board of Directors

Quentin Lathuille

Chairman of the Board

Quentin Lathuille

Chairman of the Board

Quentin Lathuille is a Partner at Francisco Partners. Based in London, he joined the firm in 2015. Quentin currently serves on the boards of EG Software, Keyloop, Macrobond, Operative, Orisha and Veson Nautical. He also previously served on the board of BluJay. Quentin has an MS from CentraleSupélec in Paris, France as well as an MS from ESCP Business School in Paris, France. He previously worked at Morgan Stanley.

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Andrew Kowal

Director

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Andrew Kowal

Director

Andrew Kowal is a Partner at Francisco Partners. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2001. Andrew currently serves on the boards of Accela, Boomi, Everfox, Forcepoint, GoTo, and LastPass. He also previously served on the boards of Aderant, Corsair, Ichor Systems, iconectiv, Magnachip, Metrologic, Mitel Networks, Optanix, ShoreGroup, Source Photonics, and Tile. Andrew has a B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. He previously worked at Princes Gate Investors, the private equity arm of the Institutional Securities Division of Morgan Stanley.

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Federico La Bella

Director

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Federico La Bella

Director

Federico La Bella is a Vice President at Francisco Partners. Based in London, he joined the firm in 2023. Federico graduated cum laude in Business Administration from University of Turin, and he received a M.S.c. in Management (Diplôme Grande Ecole) from ESCP Europe Paris, with a major in Finance. He previously worked at Citigroup.

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Norman Girard

Director

Norman Girard CEO of EffecientIP

Norman Girard

Director

Norman Girard is responsible for leading the management, strategic direction and execution of the EfficientIP vision. He also sits on the Board of Directors. Prior to EfficientIP, Norman spent 13 years as VP and General Manager for Continental Europe for Varonis, he built an $80M business and attracted over 2,000 new customers.

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Advisors

Thierry Drilhon

Independent Director

Thierry Drilhon

Independent Director

Thierry Drilhon has 35 years of experience in the technology, digital and innovation sphere, acquired as an executive of world class and mid-sized, private equity-owned companies. He was previously appointed as Managing Director for Microsoft in France. Thierry then joined Cisco Systems as CEO France, later becoming President EMEA, before integrating the World Executive Committee as Senior Vice-President, based in Paris and San Francisco.

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Bill McCarthy

Independent Director

Bill McCarthy

Independent Director

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