Cyril Malargé

Chief Executive Officer, Alten

Search every verified Cyril Malargé interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Cyril Malargé, then Directeur Exécutif Pôle France at Sopra Steria, described the company in a 2017 interview as a French digital services firm founded in 1968 by Pierre Pasquet. He stated that the group had 40,000 employees across 20 countries, including 5,000 in India, and that its French operations employed 16,000 people. Malargé noted that Sopra Steria hired 2,500 people in 2016 and expected to hire over 1,500 in 2017, with a recruitment strategy focused on 90% young graduates from engineering and business schools. Malargé discussed his own career, saying he joined Sopra Steria in 2002 as a project manager before moving into sales and management roles. He characterized the company as having an entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging initiative and risk-taking, and described it as a "start-up spirit within an industrial group." He added that the company trains recruits in areas such as co-design, agility, big data, digital, and artificial intelligence for major CAC 40 clients.