Press release – Numeum unveils a new governance structure to accelerate its strategic plan
Paris, August 26, 2024 – One year after the election of Véronique Torner as President of Numeum, France’s leading organization of digital professionals is evolving its governance to accelerate its “radiate and federate” strategic plan. With 2,500 member companies representing 85% of the sector’s sales, Numeum is fully playing its role as a catalyst for the digital ecosystem under the leadership of Véronique Torner, who has set three key priorities: regions, skills and responsible digital.
As part of this drive to modernize and increase Numeum’s impact, Véronique Torner has chosen to surround herself with a new management team embodied by two recognized digital experts with dual public-private backgrounds:
Valérie Dagand, from September 2, 2024 as Managing Director, for her leadership and experience in managing major transformation projects,
Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz, from October 1, 2024 as Deputy Managing Director in charge of Public Affairs and Research, for her unique knowledge of the digital sector and French and European institutions.
Véronique Torner
President of Numeum.
I’m delighted to welcome Valérie Dagand as Managing Director and Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz as Deputy Managing Director, to give a boost to the Numeum transformation project I’ve been leading for the past year, and to reinforce our role as a federator of the sector on a national and European scale. I’d like to thank Michel Combot for his commitment over the past year, and look forward to continuing the adventure with this new team.
Valérie Dagand, Managing Director, Numeum
Valérie Dagand is a recognized digital expert specializing in the management of major transformation projects.
His dual public-private career over the past 25 years, in both large corporations and start-ups, has enabled him to develop a unique vision of governance at a time of major technological breakthroughs, particularly in complex environments.
After working for major groups such as Monoprix, PPR, Aéroports de Paris and VINCI Autoroutes, Valérie Dagand joined the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry.
des Armées in 2018 as Deputy Director General in charge of ministerial orchestration of the ministry’s digital transformation, within the Direction Générale du Numérique (DGNum) then Déléguée à la transformation et performance ministérielle.
Convinced of the need to support businesses, she then co-founded IA Campus, the first innovation and training lab focused on the new uses of AI.
Committed to responsible and inclusive digital development:
▪ She was president of the Cyberelles association and of the Combattantes@Numérique network (French Ministry of Defence).
▪ She is also a regular speaker at grandes écoles such as ENA (INSP) and CFMD on the challenges of transforming governance in the digital and AI age.
Valérie Dagand holds a degree from ESG, a Master’s from KEDGE and an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe.
Valérie Dagand
Managing Director of Numeum.
Numeum’s project “Rayonner et fédérer” represents a real challenge, and I’m impatient to be able to support this fine professional organization in this ambition at such a decisive time for the sector. As a digital professional, I’m also very proud to represent Numeum’s 2,500 members, and to join them in continuing the collective effort Véronique Torner has been working on for over a year to create a dynamic, innovative ecosystem.
Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz, Deputy Managing Director in charge of Public Affairs, Research and Europe
Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz is a recognized international expert in the digital sector, with 15 years’ experience in digital healthcare. She has been Director of European and International Projects at the Délégation ministérielle au Numérique en Santé (DNS) of the French Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Health since 2020. She has experience of European and international governance and European regulatory processes.
Prior to this, she spent almost 30 years in the private sector, holding positions in strategy and business development and management control in major groups in the digital (IBM), consulting (PwC Management Consultants) and industrial (Holcim and Tenneco Automotive) sectors, in France and Europe. She also (co)founded 2 start-ups in the digital health sector.
Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz was a director and member of the executive committee of Syntec Numérique (now Numeum) for almost 6 years, where she chaired the #5000startups program and co-chaired the Health Commission. She was also involved in the Syntec Federation (statutes and mandates committee).
Its commitments:
▪ Teaching: throughout her career from the Université Libre de Bruxelles to Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, she has lectured at engineering, business and political science schools.
▪ Digital and science: she has supported start-ups and intervened in high schools to encourage investment in digital professions. She is also a member of the following networks
and think tanks on governance, digital technology and women in science, health and technology.
▪ Associative: she is personally involved, in France and abroad.
She has a double degree in engineering and management from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles, (ULB)), an agrégation in economic and commercial sciences, is an auditor and has been a director of the IHEST (Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie) and an ESSEC-certified company director.
Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz,
Deputy Managing Director in charge of Public Affairs, Research and Europe
I’m happy and proud to be joining Numeum to meet the expectations of its members and defend their interests and those of the ecosystem on a European scale, in order to meet regional and national challenges while helping to make Europe a world leader in digital. I’m looking forward to putting my experience at the service of European digital policies that promote responsible innovation and digital inclusion, and thus ensuring that Numeum’s strategic objectives are met.
