Jean-Luc Chatelain
Managing Director, Accenture

Jean-Luc Chatelain is a managing director for Accenture Digital and the CTO for Accenture Applied Intelligence, where he focuses on helping Accenture customers become information-powered enterprises by architecting state-of-the-art big data solutions. Previously, Jean-Luc was the executive vice president of strategy and technology for DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN), the world’s largest privately held big data storage company, where he led the company’s R&D efforts and was responsible for corporate and technology strategy; a Hewlett-Packard fellow and vice president and CTO of information optimization responsible for leading HP’s information management and business analytics strategy; founder and CTO of Persist Technologies (acquired by HP), a leader in hyperscale grid storage and archiving solutions whose technology is the basis of the HP Information Archiving Platform IAP; and CTO and senior vice president of strategic corporate development at Zantaz, a leading service provider of information archiving solutions for the financial industry, where he played an instrumental role in the development of the company’s services and raised millions of dollars in capital for international expansion. He has been a board member of DDN since 2007. Jean-Luc studied computer science and electrical engineering in France and business at Emory University’s Goizueta Executive Business School. He is bilingual in French and English and has also studied Russian and classical Greek.