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Curious about our mission, partnerships, and team? Discover what we stand for and what we’re building.

Our mission

We're shifting security operations from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. SOCs today are optimized for processing alerts, while their actual goal should be improving security. Teams spend their time reacting to thousands of daily signals while managing hundreds of fragmented detection tools that never give them the complete picture.

At Qevlar AI, we believe alerts aren't the end goal. They're signals pointing to something deeper: recurring attack patterns, systemic weaknesses, and exposure risks that, when understood collectively, reveal how to truly strengthen your security posture.

Our mission is to help security teams move beyond the endless cycle of alert triage and focus on what actually makes organizations safer.

Meet the team

Ahmed Achchak
Co-founder and CEO
With a background in machine learning and engineering across leading banks and startups, Ahmed brings an AI-first perspective to cybersecurity.

Hamza Sayah
Co-founder and CTO
Passionate about mathematics and AI, Hamza is leading the technical side of Qevlar AI.

Hakim Jakhjoukh
Chief Revenue Officer
With a background scaling go-to-market at enterprise software and AI companies, Hakim leads sales, sales engineering, strategic partnership, and customer success across EMEA and the US.

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Sebastien Mouhieddine
Head of Sales EMEA
Sebastien has spent over 20 years in the software industry, leading French Enterprise sales teams at MongoDB and the Enterprise South EMEA team at Navan.

Corentin Le Reun
VP, Americas
Corentin spent a decade at Cisco Security in senior roles, later serving as VP of Sales then CEO at VISO TRUST.

Allison Schoner
VP Marketing
With a background in cybersecurity marketing, Allison knows how to turn hard data into campaigns that speak directly to the SOC's real pain points.

Leila Zeddam
Sr Director, Global BDR
Leila has over a decade of experience in building global sales development teams in AI, SaaS, and cybersecurity.

Frazer Whitfield
VP Product
Frazer leads product initiatives to give analysts their time back, making organizations more secure.

Renaud Couzin
Director of AI
Renaud combines analytical rigor with a pragmatic mindset to build reliable AI technology for cybersecurity teams.

Albane Bressolle Chataigner
Chief People Officer
Albane is passionate about building empowerment-based cultures in organizations.

Julien Hobeika
VP Strategy and Operations
Julien leads Strategy & Operations, driving company execution and growth initiatives.

Charles Matausch
Chief of Staff
Charles has been the operational backbone of Qevlar AI since its inception.

Nadia Mejri
Director Of Customer Success
Nadia leads Customer Success at Qevlar AI, architecting the customer journey.

Jean-Baptiste Guglielmine
Director of Sales Engineering
JB knows exactly what it takes for AI to earn a SOC team’s trust.

Mickael Giraud
IT & Information Security Director
Mickael drives the technical and security strategy at Qevlar AI.

Our story

Qevlar was founded by Ahmed Achchak and Hamza Sayah, AI engineers who saw firsthand the challenges in Security Operations Centers.

Today, Qevlar AI is trusted by Fortune Global 500 enterprises and leading MSSPs across Europe, the US, and beyond, including Orange Cyberdefense, MediaMarkt, Atos, and Sodexo.

Incubated by Microsoft and Meta

Raised $14M to supercharge SOC teams

Formed global partnerships

Won some of the industry's most prestigious awards.

Raised $30M to accelerate our mission of transforming SOCs from reactive firefighting to proactive defense

Always in the spotlight

From major cybersecurity conferences to global stages, Qevlar is where industry conversations happen.