Marie-Solange is the director of the land and naval sector within Optronics and Missile Electronics at Thales. Appointed to the job in September 2021, the 37-year old found herself at the helm of a team that, apart from one other young woman, consists exclusively of men over the age of 50 who “have daughters my age!” She smiles. “It was my youth that surprised them rather than my gender,” she remarks…