Orange starts playing management musical chairs

With a new CTIO, Head of Europe, CEOs for Belgium and Spain and leader for the Engage2025 strategy, there are plenty of new faces in the Orange executive management team.

Although this should not be seen as a complete overhaul of the business, Stéphane Richard is still the big boss and Ramon Fernandez is still effectively his second-in-command, quite a few executives will have to get used to a new role.

“The months ahead include some uncertainties but also real opportunities, whether that means accelerating digital transformation, making further technological progress (5G, network function virtualisation, cloud, edge) or taking advantage of developments specific to our telecoms sector,” Richard said.

“We are actively preparing to detect and where possible seize these opportunities. We need to accelerate and shorten our reaction and decision times so that we can confront with confidence the profound changes brought about by the global epidemic.”

Here are the changes to be aware of:

These are some significant changes for the business, though there will still be two new appointments in the immediate future to fill the currently vacant roles of Belgium CEO and Poland CEO.

While it is hardly unusual for management changes en masse as we are seeing here, there are some very interesting elements to keep an eye on.

Fernandez is no-longer responsible for European operations, though it remains to be seen what ‘development’ and ‘flagship projects’ actually translates to. As for Dutray, ‘transforming the mobile infrastructure operational model’ is sufficiently vague enough to capture the imagination.

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