Romain Durand is in charge of both the R&D and the Innovation programs at Transatel. Prior to co-founding Transatel, Romain was a system architect at Alcatel, where he focused on subjects related to security, mobile Internet, and m-business. He represented Alcatel in organizations for standardization such as ETSI and WAP Forum. Romain also spent 2 years in Japan where he was in charge of a technological survey regarding telecommunications.