Management Team

Francis Zadan

Chief Executive Officer 
Francis Zadan has a track record developing previous businesses to commercial success, beginning with 3a Telecom, an independent mobile communications SP that was sold to Vodafone Group for a multimillion-pound figure. He has managed multinational companies at directorial level and delivered projects for blue-chip organisations such as Hutchison Whampoa, Nortel, Nokia, CIBN, Vodafone and One2One. Dr Zadan is a graduate of Imperial College, University of London and holds a PhD in engineering from the University of Salford.

Simon Taylor

CIO and Director of Solutions
Simon Taylor is a commercially driven IT Director with a proven track record within B2B, B2C, outsourced, business services, communications, technology, SME, corporate and commercial markets. Prior to joining Corebridge he worked for ten years at Microsoft where he was employed as a Business Consultant in Microsoft EMEA Business Operations. In this role he was responsible for top-level business consultancy, including delivering enhanced technology and process and control of multifunction teams.

Raoul Mattei

General Manager - Continental Europe
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy and of IAE Aix-en-Provence Graduate School of Management, Raoul Mattei began his career at IBM in hardware and services sales in Nantes in 1989. After managing regional sales in Marseilles and Lyon, he was promoted to an IBM sales directorship in Paris in 1999. He served IBM as a Global Services Executive from 2002, before joining Corebridge in 2008 as General Manager of its operations in southern Europe.

Peter Stent

Finance Director 
Peter Stent is a chartered accountant whose experience in financial, general and innovative marketing management has ranged across a number of sectors and countries. His career has encompassed roles in marketing agencies, blue chips, SMEs and start-ups. An acknowledged specialist in the convergence of technology and telecommunications, he founded and developed a well respected below-the-line agency of thirty staff which specialised in media, travel, retail and FMCG and whose clients included British Airways, Disney Theme Parks and Consumer Products, Avis, Boots, BP, Shell, Courage Retail, Bass Taverns and Nestlé.

Emad Saïd

Chief Technical Officer
Emad Saïd has led technical design, development and systems architecture at Corebridge since its inception as a research project by IBM and France Telecom in 1993. He has over twenty-five years' experience in telecommunications and software development and holds a masters degree in computer systems specialisations from Supélec, Rennes.