Hocine Berrane

has headed the Limpertsberg-based Crédit Agricole Life Insurance Europe’s IT department for roughly the past 13 years. He previously was IT & organisation director at Swiss Life Global Solutions, head of ICT & security at Dexia Life & Pension, IT manager at Arcolux/Luxstar and IT manager at AT&T France. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences in the grand duchy and has served on the jury for ITone’s CIO of the Year award. He studied at the HEC business school in Paris.

Georges Berscheid

He is co-founder and CTO of one of the buzziest fintech startups in Luxembourg, Finologee. But was also co-founder and CTO of the mobile payments firm Mpulse and Digicash Payments (now part of Payconiq). Currently he lectures on digital transformation in financeto graduate students at the University of Luxembourg. He started his career as a software engineer at IBM in Silicon Valley, after studying at the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau.

Sara Berujon

With 15 years of local payments and banking experience, she says of her current role: “I orchestrate strategic initiatives for our wholesale clients” with the aim of “introducing world class payments solutions to the Western Europe landscape”, such as buy now pay later services. Sara Berujon joined JP Morgan in 2022 after 8 years with Paypal (in several product roles) and 7 years with Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. She studied at Neoma Business School, Lancaster University and Skema Business School.

Christophe Bianco

Christophe Bianco leads Excellium Services, a cybersecurity consultancy that started up in 2012, and is vice chair of the Africa Cybersecurity Resource Centre and lecturer at Telecom Nancy, the French engineering school. Previously he was vice president & general manager EMEA at Qualys, and held positions with Verizon Business Security Solutions, Cybertrust and Ubizen Luxembourg. He attended the École nationale d’ingénieurs de Brest and Telecom Bretagne, and currently is a PhD candidate at ESCP Business School.

Jérôme Bouthors

As COO, he is responsible for the law firm’s technology projects and digital transformation. At the same time, he is an angel investor and advisor, member of several startup boards and was involved in the ABBL banking group’s fintech forum. Earlier in his career, was a technology executive at JP Morgan in Hong Kong and Luxembourg, IT manager at HSBC in Hong Kong and Paris, and IT professional at Constantin Associations in New York City. He studied at the engineering school CPE Lyon.

Kenza Bouzouraa

She has worked her way up the ladder at Ainos, a digital transformation consultancy, from head of sales in 2017 to deputy director in 2019 to CEO in 2020. She joined the firm from Elgon, an IT services outfit, where she was a key account manager and then head of sales. Both are now part of Post Group. Kenza Bouzouraa attended the University of Metz and Essec Business School. “An application is much more than a code base; it is an ever-changing set of constraints, expectations and unforeseen events,” she says.

Steve Breier

After several decades with the chamber of commerce--he started working there in 1993—Steve Breier is now the management committee member in charge of finance, IT, purchasing and administration. In addition, he sits on the boards of Luxtrust, the digital security group Incert and Luxexpo, and is vice chair of Luxembourg’s Trade and Companies Register (RCS). He previously was chair of the advisory board for the flagship tech conference ICT Spring. He studied computer science at the University of Nancy.

Laurent Brochmann

“ is a people person who likes to keep up with the latest technology,” his bio reads. He has been managing director since 2022 and global chief digital officer since 2020 at Dennemeyer, an intellectual property management software and services firm, where he currently oversees the delivery of IT services and applications. Prior to that, he spent 25 years at Deloitte in Luxembourg, where he served as the consulting firm’s CIO. His hobbies include classic and sports cars, cooking and alpacas.

Xavier Buck

One of Luxembourg’s best known tech founders and investors. He’s been an internet entrepreneur since 1996 and founded or co-founded EuroDNS (now Namespace), Datacenter.eu, Domain Invest and Openregistry.com. He’s invested in, among others, Doctena, Domaintools, Emailtree and Georanker.com. Today serves on the boards of the VC firms HLD, One Ragtime and High Capital, as well as the media firm Alchimie and construction outfit CDCL. He chaired the Luxembourg ICT Cluster for the five years to 2019.

Pascal Bughin

He’s been with the firm since 2013 and took on his current role in 2021, after having served as the insurer’s chief operating & compliance officer, chief risk officer and deputy CEO in Luxembourg. Recently he helped launch “MyLMEP”, a 100% digital B2B2C platform. He was a runner-up for the CIO of the Year at IT Nation’s Golden-I awards in 2023. previously was COO and then CEO at Massmutual Europe, and policyholder services manager at Euresa Life. He attended the Université catholique de Louvain.