With more than three decades in senior strategic, R&D and operational roles, Stephen has worked at the frontier of disruptive technologies, developing a rare capability – helping organisations adopt new ways of thinking, then embedding them in practice. A consistent thread in his career is the translation of advanced data and platforms into new operating models, processes and sources of durable value.
At Dassault Systèmes, where he led the global Aerospace industry in close collaboration with Boeing, Dassault Aviation and their ecosystems, Stephen helped reshape how aircraft programmes were conceived and delivered. He led the shift from product-centric development to platform thinking; from siloed tools to integrated services; and from ambition to measurable delivery. The result was a fully integrated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach spanning the enterprise.
From that foundation, he helped scale the same process- and use-case-driven methodology across 11 industries, establishing shared governance frameworks and reusable models across more than 200 industry processes.
Earlier, at Bull and Atos, Stephen applied the same mindset to the emergence of cloud, advanced computing, big data and cybersecurity. Working with an “everything-as-code” philosophy, he helped build as-a-service operating models, combining dedicated teams and reusable automation to turn platform capabilities – both proprietary and third-party – into repeatable, industrialised building blocks. This included targeted M&A and ecosystem partnerships, notably multi-dimensional joint R&D and go-to-market programmes with Google.
In parallel, he industrialised high-performance computing consumption through HPC-as-a-service and marketplace models, extending into emerging domains such as quantum services.
Most recently, as COO and co-founder, Stephen developed ecoDesignCloud in close partnership with L’Oréal — a SaaS platform designed to make eco-design and sustainability performance affordable, accessible and scalable across complex retail supply chains. The platform’s “sustainability virtual twin”, built on embedded and regulatory-compliant methodologies, enables clients to meet reporting obligations while improving design-time decision-making.
Globally curious and culturally fluent, Stephen has worked in or traveled across more than 50 countries.
Outside work, weekends are reserved for music, dancing and unhurried dinners with friends – small rituals that keep perspective intact.
At Living Lab, Stephen Shibel brings an engineer’s discipline to a single focus – making the Living Lab vision real.
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