Katia Hilal is Co-founder and COO of Amiral Technologies, a deeptech startup specialised in blind failure predictive maintenance solutions for the industry.
Katia has 25 years of experience in the high-tech B2B software business, in various executive and management positions: COO at RedCloud Technologies, V.P. Product & Marketing at eServGlobal, Director of Business development at Lucent Technologies and Orange.
She has led the HomeSend international mobile money remittance hub project and its spin-off as Joint Venture between MasterCard, Belgacom and eServGlobal.
Katia holds a Ph. D. and Engineering degrees in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech Engineering School (France) and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Open University Business School (UK).