OVH Announces Laurent Allard As New CEO

OVH announced today that Laurent Allard is now the CEO of the company and founder Octave Klaba will serve as CTO.

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“Becoming a leader of digital as a service, is to be the one that catalyzes the ecosystem, to be the reference in both innovation as well as one who can carry and support long-term corporate projects,” explains Laurent Allard. “OVH is one of the most exciting entrepreneurial adventures. I am particularly proud to have been chosen to take the company even further,” he adds. “We need to grow and transform our ways of working to meet new challenges. A big part of my job will be to enhance the mobilization of energy and experience to develop the established vision. Octave Klaba writes the melodies and I assume the role as the conductor of the orchestra creating a score performed by 1,000 virtuosos today and more tomorrow.”

“Laurent is a recognized leader with proven managerial skills, he is a visionary and has the ability to get people to work in harmony. It is exactly what OVH needs to write the next chapter in its history,” adds Octave Klaba, founder of OVH.

The first public appearance by Laurent Allard as CEO of OVH will take place in Lille (France) on February 26 to launch the OVH World Tour 2015.

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