Deputy General Director of the François-Charles Oberthur Group (FCO)
and Managing Director of the Bioguard & Co.
Born in 1960 graduated in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He later graduated from INSEAD with a Master’s in Business Administration.
He started his career in 1984 as a Project Manager of CIBA CEIGY In 1990 he joined SICPA to become Plant Director, before moving to France in 1997 to join the FCOF group, as Divisional Director of Oberthur Fiduciaire Since joining the FCOF group, his purpose has been to place the company at the forefront of innovation in the security printing industry,
After leading the OF division until the end of 2020 Mr Koutros is currently in charge of developing the Oberthur Solutions division which offers innovative solutions for digital services and secure documents.
In 2021 he was appointed Managing Director of the Bioguard Co, a newly created company with the objective of deploying Bioguard™ technology beyond fiduciary printing Bioguard™ technology is a solution which can be used in any industry to protect products, surfaces, packaging and paper offering customized solutions.
Today Nicolas Koutros is the Deputy General Director of the François Charles Oberthur Group and Managing Director of the Bioguard Co.