Jean-Paul SMETS

Co-President of EUCLIDIA

Jean-Paul SMETS

Co-President of EUCLIDIA

Biography

Jean-Paul SMETS is co-President of EUCLIDIA, the European Alliance of Cloud Industrials. He is the CEO of Rapid.Space, a fully open cloud provider with global presence in 240 zones including in China and Japan. Jean-Paul graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure with a PhD in computer science and from Ecole des Mines de Paris with a Master in Public Administration. He is an active member of Free Software associations and has played in key role in the Eurolinux campaign which succeeded in protecting innovation from software patents.