About us
BoostAeroSpace SAS, was founded by Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Safran and Thales with the mission to federate and facilitate exchanges between ALL the players in the sector of Aerospace and Defence: from the largest to the smallest, in the interest of ALL.
BoostAeroSpace offers international standardised value-added services and digital solutions adapted to ALL players in order to increase the competitiveness and the resilience of the European Aerospace and Defence industry.
BoostAeroSpace develops, sells and deploys secured products or services for Supply Chain in the domain of cyber security and Client – Supplier relationship:
- AirCyber®: Enhanced collective cyber protection through individual actions. Adapted & Affordable cyber security for the Supply Chain
- AirConnect®: Automated Data Exchange between Suppliers’ ERPs and Clients’ Platform.
- AirSupply® – including Easy Starter: Standard collaborative platform for the Aerospace and Defence Industry Supply Chain actors, for which service provider is SupplyOn AG; with new version adapted for SMEs – Easy Starter.
BoostAeroSpace promotes and markets a range of collaborative and secured services, developed and sold by services providers, in the domains of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and global collaboration.
In this context, BoostAeroSpace supports deployment of :
Our shareholders
Benoit MOLARD
President & CEO
Since 2024, Benoît MOLARD is the CEO of BoostAeroSpace, bringing a 30 years’ professional experience in Procurement, Support and Services, and industrial Operations in Supply-chain, Quality and Logistics – a key asset to lead BoostAeroSpace further as the obvious catalyst to support the Aeronautic, Space and Defence industry, and to address its major digital collaboration challenges.
He holds a Master’s degree from the Engineering school of Saint-Etienne, completed by an MBA in Procurement from Grenoble University.
Benoît started his career in Defence industry in Industrial Operations and Program Quality, before moving to Aerospace industry in the late 90s. He joined Liebherr Aerospace in Toulouse where he held different roles in Procurement and supply chain quality management.
He then joined Airbus Helicopters in Marignane in 2006 as a commodity lead buyer and to actively participate in the Procurement function transformation : standard process and tool, sourcing strategies in Multi-functional Teams, digitalization such as deploying AirSupply, reform the Supply Chain Quality Management organization.
He then moved to Support and Services Operations first as Head Of Maintenance Repair and Overhaul for Rotor and Transmissions for Airbus Helicopters, and in a second step in Australia/New Zealand as Head Of Operations for Airbus Australia Pacific Customer Center, to support civil and military customers. After this overseas and customer relationship experiences, Benoît went back to suppliers’ relationships and spent the last three years leading the Procurement Operations and Logistics team of Airbus Helicopters, delivering through stormy conditions whilst successfully transforming and digitalizing the organization.
Management team
Antoine GILLES
Technical Director
Antoine GILLES joined BoostAeroSpace in 2022 as Technical Director, sharing his time between Dassault Aviation and BoostAeroSpace.
Antoine has more than 35 years of experience in digital for Aerospace & Defence sector.
He joined Dassault Aviation in 1986 in the Design Office in various domains mixing aircraft performance and AI techniques.
Then he worked for a long period of time in the embedded System Engineering domains for Rafale and Falcons : formal specifications and MBSE, continuity between System Engineering and Software Engineering : all in collaborative mode with major OEMs, with a digital continuity goal, respecting each other’s processes and strategies.
He also has an experience of solution architect for PLMs on following domains : configuration management, logistic support engineering, extended design office.
He is still working as a seasoned enterprise architect within Dassault IT teams on digital transformation.
Antoine graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1985.
Laurent PHILIPPE
Technical Director
Laurent PHILIPPE is a senior executive bringing over 14 years working experience in digital, including multiple domains such as cryptography, cybersecurity and data analytics.
He began his career in 2008 at Gemalto as cryptography engineer and then worked on cybersecurity joining the French Ministry of Defence. In 2015, he joined the financial sector working for Société Générale, first being in charge of data protection for CIB entities and then as the head of General Inspection’s DataLab, managing an international team of data experts. Besides, he gave multiple lectures on data-based digital transformation for IFACI and Paris-Dauphine University.
Laurent graduated in computer science from Université de Technologie de Compiègne in 2008 and joined BoostAeroSpace in June 2023.
Romain BOTTAN
CISO and AirCyber Program Director
Since 2011, Romain BOTTAN is in charge of BoostAeroSpace Cyber security in his role of CISO, and in charge of defining and maintaining the Aerospace and Defence standard AirCyber.
Romain specialized in CyberSecurity at an early stage after his engineer Master degree from Toulouse Professional University (IUP STRI) at Alcatel-Lucent CyberSecurity company (Now under Thales). Then Romain began his AeroSpace and Defence CyberSecurity career at CapGemini Sogeti as a security engineer for Airbus’ CyberSecurity department. He spent 5 years working for Airbus before being offered to join Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity as Security Officer for BoostAeroSpace.
By joining BoostAeroSpace, he has been responsible for coordinating the security activities of BoostAeroSpace and its service providers, where he formalized his security skills through international CISSP and ISO 27001 Lead Implementer certifications.
A few years later, Romain took on a parallel assignment at Airbus to help steering the implementation of a global cyber protection program for all Airbus group entities. This was the perfect experience to take then the responsibility 2 years later in BoostAeroSpace to launch the equivalent cyber program, but this time, for the CyberSecurity of the SupplyChain side as AirCyber Program Director.
Anne CARRERE
AirSupply and AirConnect Product Manager
Anne CARRERE started out her professional life early 1995 at PepsiCo as a Marketing and Sales Administration Analyst.
After 2000, she worked mainly in the aeronautical field for industrials such as Airbus, Safran and Latecoere, holding missions like contract management, project management, sourcing strategy set up, call for tender process, risk management assessment, procurement…
She also worked for Internet startups as communication and content manager.
Anne joined BoostAeroSpace in June 2017.
Anne earned a Master in International Trade and Marketing from ISEG Group.
Nicolas WISLEZ
Chief Information Security Officer Deputy & AirCyber Senior Manager
Nicolas WISLEZ was appointed in May 2024 as CISO Deputy and Senior Manager of SupplyChain Cyber Maturity Services with AirCyber.
Graduated from SUPINFO Engineering School, Nicolas has built his experience in the field of Cybersecurity since 2010.
His career, initiated at Airbus (via Sogeti-Capgemini and Sopra-Steria), as a Project Manager on various international cybersecurity solution deployment projects, demonstrates his ability to orchestrate complex security projects.
By subsequently holding key roles at a cybersecurity solution provider Stormshield, then TEHTRIS, Nicolas has not only broadened his technical horizon on innovation and addressing the cybersecurity challenges of large groups but has also acquired commercial acumen and a sense of service consistently rewarded by exceeding the expectations of his peers.
Christophe RODRIGUES
Aero Excellence Product Manager
Christophe RODRIGUES joined BoostAeroSpace in April 2019 and took over Product management activities for AirDesign and AirCollab. Since beginning of 2024 he moved to take the lead on the management and delivery of the Aero Excellence platform.
Christophe is a senior PLM project manager with more than 15 years’ experience. He started his career in 2003 at Dassault Systèmes where he spent 8 years as consultant. He has gradually become a specialist in the A&D and had the chance to share his knowledge in PLM projects for the following companies AIRBUS, DASSAULT AVIATION and BAE SYSTEMS. He has also developed an expertise in the area of electrical system design.
In 2011, Christophe joined GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS, a leading aerospace manufacturer, to define and implement the PLM strategy within the European sites.
In both experiences, he took on the dual role of Project Manager and PLM Application Manager.
Christophe holds an engineering degree from ESIEE (Higher School of Engineers in Electrotechnics and Electronics), option: Production Systems Engineering coupled with an executive MBA in digital transformation at Toulouse Business School.
Klaus JUNGNICKEL
Director Germany
Klaus JUNGNICKEL joined BoostAeroSpace in April 2024, extending BoostAeroSpace presence to Germany and supporting the ambition to support all the Aerospace and Defence supply chain worldwide.
Klaus started his career at Airbus in the Industrial Engineering department in Hamburg. His wide range of activities included the support of the Dolores cost reduction program and development of new organization principles implemented at the German Airbus sites.
As Head of Engineering Organizations within the Airbus Center of Competence Electrics (CoC), he was responsible for different projects and activities along the A380 and A400M programme to further improve Airbus development processes and to reduce development costs and lead times.
Another challenge in his career path was the foundation of the Premium Aerotec (PAG) in Augsburg and its Engineering and Manufacturing support for the following years. In this role, Klaus secured the Interim Head of A350 programme in Engineering for PAG deliveries to Airbus for a year.
The implementation of the Extended Enterprise Organization at Airbus was the decisive factor for the job change to Airbus Procurement. Klaus took on several cross-functional projects in which Procurement had the project lead or contributed. In the last years of his Airbus career, Klaus was responsible for the development of new functionalities and features for the Airbus Partner Portal.
Klaus also gained a wide range of professional experience at other well-known companies, such as Philips, Siemens and Deutsche Bahn. He successfully graduated in Economical Engineering at Technical University Hamburg.
Raoudha JAMMOUSSI
Communication & Commercial Director
Raoudha JAMMOUSSI joined BoostAeroSpace in September 2022 bringing 18 years of experience in the Aerospace Industry. Indeed Raoudha started her career in Airbus Commercial with various marketing roles and then moved to Strategic Marketing. Then, Innovation was an eye opener on how to innovate to respond to the market need and opportunity. To later integrate a more upstream thinking with few years in New Business Strategy for Airbus Group. Raoudha brings experience in customer relationship, in Sales&Marketing, in Innovation and Exploration, using the ThinkWrong and the Blueocean strategy principles and in transverse project management and change.
Raoudha holds and Aerospace Engineering degree from ENAC coupled with a Master in Networks and Transport Economy from Toulouse School of Economics.
Nadège BOURY
Executive Assistant
Nadège BOURY brings over 20 years of administration experience from various positions in the automotive and business consulting, including positions at Ernst&Young as well as Renault. She is supporting the day-to-day operations of BoostAeroSpace in Suresnes.
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