Sequans Communications S.A. (SQNS)

Dr. Georges Karam has been chairman and chief executive since he founded Sequans in 2003. Before that he was vice president of cable access at Juniper Networks, and earlier held senior posts at Alcatel, SAGEM and Philips. Deborah Choate has been chief financial officer since July 2007, after the same role at Esmertec and Wavecom and an early career as an audit partner at Ernst & Young. Bertrand Debray, vice president of engineering from the founding and later chief operating officer, is now chief of staff to the chief executive and acting head of research and development. 1234

The rest of the executive team: Dr. Qiuting Huang, chief technology officer since Sequans bought ACP in January 2025, founded ACP in 2001 and is an emeritus professor at ETH Zurich, where he led research on radio chips; Nikhil Taluja has run worldwide sales since September 2016, after SK hynix and ST-Ericsson; Olivier Pauzet, head of marketing and strategy since June 2023, came from Sierra Wireless; and Louis Chuang has run product management since October 2024. 56789

Some directors have served a long time: Zvi Slonimsky since November 2006 and Hubert de Pesquidoux, a former chief financial officer of Alcatel-Lucent, since March 2011. Newer ones bring industry ties: Maria Marced, a director since June 2023, was president of TSMC Europe, the arm of the foundry that makes its chips, until January 2024, and Jason Cohenour, who joined in June 2025, ran Sierra Wireless as chief executive from 2005 to 2018. All 14 directors and officers on the record first filed insider reports in March 2026, when those reporting rules began to apply to them. 1011121314151617

At the end of 2025 Sequans had 171 full-time employees: 70 in France, 25 in Israel, 23 in the United Kingdom, 18 in Switzerland, 15 in the United States, 11 in Taiwan and 7 in China. Research and development took 109 of them. Headcount had been 264 at the end of 2023; about 70 people moved to Qualcomm in October 2024 with the technology sale. It also used 20 engineers from Global Logic in Ukraine for software development and testing, and 25 other contractors. 18192021