Nicolas has spent 15 years in the telecommunications and information systems field. For six years he was the quality assurance department manager of the Telecom Infrastructure Product Division of Hewlett-Packard, managing a team of over 40 engineers. Prior to this, Nicolas held various R&D positions, including 18 months in the United States on assignment with Hughes Network Systems. As the R&D manager of Inovatel, the advanced research organization of Cegetel, for the last two years, Nicolas has submitted several patents, including those related to the VoluBill solution.