1. Bio (Summary)      

Yves Caseau has been Michelin Group CIO since October 2017 and became Michelin CDIO (Chief Digital Information Officer) in 2021. He was previously AXA Group Head of Digital, responsible for the development of innovative web and mobile applications as well as the digital coordination of Information Systems. Though the « Digital Agency », he has fostered the « Lean Startup » approach within AXA in order to co-create digital experience with users in an incremental manner.

Yves was Bouygues Telecom's EVP in charge of New Products and Innovation until February 2014. His key responsibility was to design and to build "triple play" products (gateways and set-top boxes). He was the chief executive for "Bbox sensation" which was launched in June 2012. He was also in charge of service innovation, service architecture, R&D, technology intelligence and open innovation. His innovation strategy may be described as a "Lean Innovation Factory", also following the principles of Eric Ries's "Lean Startup".

He was Bouygues Telecom's CIO from 2001 until 2006. As Chief Information Officer, Yves Caseau was in charge of the overall strategy and development of the IT divisions of Bouygues Telecom. His main task was the re-engineering of the back-office through EAI (entreprise bus) and BPM (business process management) technologies. 

His main scientific interests are open system architecture, game theory, complex systems and business activity models (from cost forecast to market simulation), including stochastic and game-theoretical models. From a more general perspective, his themes of interest include organization theory, social networks, CMC (computer-mediated communication) and information flows.

Until November 1st, 2001, Yves Caseau was the corporate Director of New Technologies at Bouygues (Corporate Headquarters) and Director of the Bouygues "e-Lab", providing key technologies and vision to Broadcast and Telecom subsidiaries of the Bouygues Group. Dr. Caseau has been a major contributor to strategic tasks such as the re-engineering of the IT systems architecture of Bouygues Telecom or the on-line optimization of advertising revenue.

Prior to joining Bouygues in 1994, Dr. Caseau was a Research Director at Telcordia (formerly Bellcore). He is a worldwide reputation expert on hybrid algorithms for combinatorial optimization. His work has led to two patents and many world-class optimization software, such as workforce and routing optimization. He has taught several courses about optimization and constraint programming.