Ludovic Monchal is a seasoned finance executive with extensive experience in the software industry. He currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the Americas at Dassault Systèmes, a leading global software company specializing in 3D design, engineering, and simulation solutions. In this role, he oversees the company’s financial activities across the Americas, including financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, and expense management. His areas of expertise encompass financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integrations, and software distribution models, including cloud and SaaS.

Ludovic served as Chief Financial Officer for multiple companies within the Dassault Systemes group, including more recently Medidata, a company specializing in clinical trial software. He was also in charge of the Corporate FP&A for the Dassault Systemes group and led the transformation of the FP&A function through a 4-year transformation program, which included standardizing on a new Enterprise Performance Management system across all businesses.

He began his career with Deloitte, in Auditing and then M&A Transactions Services, primarily serving multi-national companies from the TMT and Aeronautic Sectors for 8 years. He holds a BS in Economics from the Aix-Marseille University, and a MS in Financial Engineering from the Kedge Business School in Marseille.