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Philippe Courtot
Philippe Courtot (26 August 1944 – 5 June 2021)[1] was a French-American serial entrepreneur and business executive.[2] Courtot was the chairman and CEO of Qualys, Nasdaq: QLYS a cloud security company based in California.[3] He headed the sales of three companies and led two others to their initial public offerings.[4] Courtot was a five-time CEO who previously worked with companies such as Signio and Verity.[5] In 2012, Courtot launched the Trustworthy Internet Movement, an initiative to integrate security measures into the product-making process.[6] In 2014, Courtot was included on Business Insider's list of the Most Powerful Person In Tech at Every Age.[7] Early life and educationPhilippe Courtot was born in France in 1944 during the end of the WWII German occupation. His mother, an immigrant from Spain, was a Spanish teacher, while his father was a lawyer. Courtot was raised Catholic and attended Jesuit schools in his youth.[8] Courtot attended the University of Paris and earned a master's degree in Physics before immigrating to the United States in 1981.[9] CareerCourtot was previously the president and CEO of Thomson-CGR (Companie Générale de Radiologie) a Medical Corporation, which at the time was an affiliate of one of the world's largest medical-imaging companies.[10] In 1987, Courtot won the Benjamin Franklin Award for his efforts in creating a nationwide campaign advocating for awareness of the benefits of early detection of breast cancer through mammography.[10] In 1988, Courtot joined a LAN-based email company called cc:Mail as president after reading an ad in the Wall Street Journal for the position.[11] In 1990, Microsoft offered to buy cc:Mail for $12 million.[12] Courtot turned down the offer and sold the company for $55 million in 1991 to Lotus.[4] After selling cc:Mail, Courtot was later named president and CEO of Verity in 1993, an intellectual capital management and software company.[13][14] He led the company to its initial public offering in 1995 and then stepped down from his positions at Verity in 1997.[13] Courtot was appointed chairman and CEO of Signio, an electronic payment company that Courtot re-positioned to be a large secure payment provider in the e-commerce industry in 1999.[15][16][17] In 2000, Courtot led the company through an acquisition by VeriSign, an internet security company that purchased Signio for $1.3 billion.[4][15][18] Courtot had begun investing in Qualys, a cloud security company, back in 1999, but was named CEO in 2001 after he had left Signio.[5][19] In 2004, SC Magazine awarded Courtot the Editor's Award for his efforts in the network security industry and for founding CSO Interchange, a forum that allows users to share information in the security industry.[20][21] In 2011, SC Magazine named him as CEO of the Year at their European awards ceremony.[22] Courtot led Qualys to its initial public offering in 2012,[2][23] and remained CEO until March 2021, when he stepped down for health reasons.[24] He died a few months thereafter.[25] Other activitiesCourtot volunteered with and served on the board of trustees for The Internet Society, an international non-profit organization.[26][27] References
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