Jean-François René Pontal (born 17 April 1943) is a French businessman, and a former Chief Executive of
Orange S.A.
Orange S.A. (), formerly France Télécom S.A. (stylized as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. In 2015, ...
Early life
Child of the official Gaston Pontal, he has a degree in Engineering in 1966 from the
Centre d'études supérieures des techniques industrielles (CESTI), now called
Supméca
Supméca (Institut Supérieur de Mécanique) is a French mechanical engineering school. The school is an active member of the Polyméca network and part of the ENSI ( Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieur) school group as well as the ISAE Gr ...
, part of
Polyméca Polyméca is a French network of engineering schools composed of seven ''grandes écoles'' teaching engineering and mechanics.
Members
* The Supméca
* The SeaTech
* The École d'ingénieurs ENSIL-ENSCI
* The École nationale supérieure de t ...
.
Career
Orange (UK)
Orange mobile UK was a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom, launched in 1994. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom (now Orange S.A.) in 2000, which then a ...
was bought by France Télécom in May 2000 for £25 billion. France Télécom changed its name to Orange S.A. He had worked at France Télécom since 1996.
Orange
He was Chief Executive (''directeur général'' or PDG) of Orange (worldwide) from January 2001 until 24 March 2003.
Orange
2003
See also
* Graham Howe (businessman)
Graham Edward Howe (born 23 May 1961) is a British entrepreneur and businessman who founded Orange UK, Orange with Hans Snook.
Early life
He was born in St Albans.
He went to St Albans Grammar School for Boys (now known since 1975 as the compreh ...
, his deputy chief executive at Orange.
References
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Businesspeople in telecommunications
French chief executives
Orange S.A.
1943 births
Living people