Alain Bravo (born 1945) is a
French
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electrical engineer
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and entrepreneur. His accomplishments include founding one of France's leading mobile phone services,
Société française de radiotéléphonie (
SFR), and he is currently the president of Abhexis and the managing director of
Supélec, one of France's top five engineering schools.
Biography
Alain Bravo is a graduate of the
École Polytechnique and
Télécom ParisTech. From 1970 to 1985, he worked with France's
Direction générale des télécommunications. He became its director of production in 1980, and in 1985, he joined the
Compagnie Générale des Eaux. Named executive vice president of the cable television division two years later, he created and chaired, in parallel, the Société Française de Radiotéléphonie (SFR). He left the presidency of SFR in 1992, and from 1991 to 1993, he directed the
Compagnie générale de vidéocommunications. In 1994, he was named director of the
Compagnie Générale des Eaux, which he would leave one year later.
In 1995, Alain Bravo created Siris, which is today
Neuf Cegetel SFR. Then he joined
Alcatel as the president of mobile phone network division. He becomes Directeur of Research and Technology in 1998 and left Alcatel in 2001.
He created
Abhexis in 2001. For this reason, he directed the
FutuRIS operation with the
Association Nationale de Recherche Technologique (
ANRT) from February 2003 to April 2004.
He currently chairs the
Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (
RNRT), the
Commission Consultative des Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications with the
Ministère de l’Industrie and the
ARCEP, the
N+i network of schools of engineers, and the
(SEE). He is Publication director of the
Revue de l'Electricité et de l'Electronique
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(REE), published by the SEE.
He has been managing director of
Supélec, an electrical engineering school, since 2004.
Since 2007, he has been President of the T.I.M.E. Association (
Top Industrial Managers for Europe), a network of 51 top Engineering Schools and Technical Universities in Europe and worldwide.
In 2015, Alain Bravo becomes the chairman of
Data ScienceTech Institute
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Scientific Advisory Board.
As such, he contributes to define and promote higher education programmes to train future Data Scientists and Big Data Analysts.
Personal
His brother Jacques Bravo is the mayor of the ninth district of Paris.
References
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1945 births
Living people
French electrical engineers
Academic staff of Paris-Saclay University
École Polytechnique alumni
Télécom Paris alumni
Corps des télécommunications