Arnaud Henry-Labordère is a graduate engineer from Ecole Centrale de Paris (1966), Ph.D (Mathematics, 1968). He was professor (chair of Operations Research) at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées during 27 years as well as Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, he is currently visiting professor at Prism-CNRS (Versailles).
His industrial career was in parallel and started at IBM research (1967) as a mathematician working on the development of the very large mainframes of the time. He was then a senior engineer at SEMA and SESA directing various projects in the area of satellite ground segments, telecom networks, OS and language compilers. He then founded 3 telecom companies: FERMA, large voice mail, text-to-speech and voice recognition systems (1983), Nilcom, a pioneer in SMS Hubbing (1998) and Halys, mobile network equipment (2003) where he is chairman and chief scientist.
He is the author of nine books (six in mathematics, three in telecoms). He has been granted more than 180 patents.