SecurActive at a glance

• Founded in 2004
• Headquarter: Paris, France
• Employees: 30
• First product release: 2005
• More than 500 customers
• Channel partners in 10 countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
• Industry Rewards : Red Herring 200 Global finalist, Deloitte Fast 50 France and Deloitte Fast 500 Europe.

Core business

SecurActive is a leading vendor in the Application performance monitoring and network visibility markets.
SecurActive provides a range of innovative solutions that helps you obtain a global vision of infrastructure and application performance & usage.

With SecurActive Performance Vision you can listen to flows on strategic points of your network in order to measure end-user's Quality of Experience (QoE), all network traffic and transactions undertaken.

SecurActive appliances are used by a wide range of customers in different industries. Today, more than 500 customers use SecurActive for their daily network operations.

SecurActive is a leading European vendor in the network visibility market. Our vision is to provide pragmatic and easy to implement solutions for network visibility: troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation. 

Management team

Since the company’s creation in 2004 by Gilles Huguenin and Boris Rogier, SecurActive’s vision has been to provide easy to use and to implement solution for the network visibility market.

SecurActive are one of the major players in a market that is highly technical in nature and has succeeded in harmonising ease of use and the available extensive information base. SecurActive count 30 collaborators. Its development team is based in Paris.

Gilles Huguenin, Chief Executive Officer

Gilles Huguenin started his career as Commercial Director for Dekra France after which he assumed the position of General Director for Journal Le Filon. He established Easynet France in 1995 and managed the company until 1999. In 1999, he returned to the Easynet Group Plc in London where he led the company’s European operations until September 2001. His past career proves that Gilles Huguenin will be actively involved in the creation of several companies in Europe in the field of technology. He founded SecurActive in April 2004, and has been managing it since its creation. Gilles Huguenin is a graduate of HEC (H 92).

Boris Rogier, General Director

Boris Rogier started his career with Capital One in London (provider of financial services) as an Analyst and Operations Manager. In 2000, he then joined Easynet Group (London, Zurich) as officer in charge of securities offerings for the Group in Europe (optimisation of acquisition of subsidiaries, synergies, and evaluation of existing offers), and was responsible for launching the Swiss subsidiary where he assumed the role of General Director. In 2004, he established SecurActive to take over its technical operations. He has been in this position since 2006. Boris is a graduate of the EDHEC and the Political Science Faculty in Bordeaux.

Investors

In order to finance its R&D policy and international expansion, SecurActive is supported by a pool of financial investors, led by UFG Private Equity. SecurActive is proud to rely on their expertise and faithfulness.

UFG Private Equity is a team of entrepreneurs in Private Equity, leads by Patrick Lissague. UFG PE currently manages over 290 m€ in assets, with a portfolio of more than 40 companies.

IDF CAPITAL, a Paris-based venture capital firm managed by Thomas Galloro, is specialized in seed and early stage investments in companies located within the Ile de France region. IDF Capital is owned by public institutions (Ile de France Region, Paris Chamber of Commerce), Banks (including Bred, Banques Populaires, CDC, CIC) and industrial firms (ADP, Dassault).