Orange's Board of Directors decides to co-opt Christel Heydemann as a new director
August 03 2017 - 07:56AM
Press Release
Paris, 3 August 2017
Orange's Board of Directors decides to co-opt
Christel Heydemann as a new director
Orange's Board of Directors, which met on 26 July
2017, decided to appoint a new director, Ms Christel Heydemann, by
co-optation following a proposal by the Governance and Corporate
Social and Environmental Responsibility Committee (CGRSE).
She will replace José Luis Duran, director since
2008, who resigned after being appointed as CEO of Value Retail PLC
and due to his functions as a member of the Board of Directors of
Inditex and Mars Inc.
Christel Heydemann's appointment will be submitted
for ratification at the Orange Group's next Annual General Meeting
in May 2018.
By naming Christel Heydemann, the Board of
Directors has chosen a professional with recognised expertise in
areas that represent major challenges for the Group (digital,
telecommunications, international).
The Board of Directors now comprises 15 members,
including 7 women, centred around Stéphane Richard, Orange Chairman
and CEO.
Christel Heydemann is Executive Vice President
France Operations at Schneider Electric and a member of the
Schneider Electric Executive Committee since April 2017. A
graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des
Ponts et Chaussées, Christel started her career in 1997 at the
Boston Consulting Group. In 1999, she joined Alcatel where she held
various senior positions, notably during the merger of Alcatel and
Lucent. In 2004, she joined the sales division at Alcatel-Lucent
where she was key account manager for SFR and Orange. In 2008, she
was appointed Sales Director France and Member of the Executive
Committee of Alcatel-Lucent France. In 2009, she negotiated a
strategic alliance with HP in the United States and was then
promoted in 2011 to the position of Executive Vice President Human
Resources & Transformation and Member of the Executive
Committee. Christel moved to Schneider Electric in 2014 as
Senior Vice President Global Strategic Alliances where she was
tasked with accelerating the launch of IoT solutions by developing
a partnership ecosystem, and was then appointed as Senior Vice
President Corporate Strategy, Alliances & Development in
2016.
About Orange
Orange is one of the world's leading
telecommunications operators with sales of 40,9 billion euros in
2016 and 153,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2017, including
94,000 employees in France. Present in 29 countries, the Group has
a total customer base of 269 million customers worldwide at 30 June
2017, including 207 million mobile customers and 19 million
fixed broadband customers. Orange is also a leading provider of
global IT and telecommunication services to multinational
companies, under the brand Orange Business Services. In March 2015,
the Group presented its new strategic plan "Essentials2020" which
places customer experience at the heart of its strategy with the
aim of allowing them to benefit fully from the digital universe and
the power of its new generation networks.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA)
and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).
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Orange’s Board of Directors decides
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