During the board of directors of this Friday, January 28, the appointment of Christel Heydemann to the general management of Orange should be ratified.
At 47, this polytechnician-Ponts et Chaussées will be the first woman to hold the position.
If the symbol is strong, it corresponds to a political will to feminize the CAC 40, but also to a shift initiated at Orange for several years.
Her profile corresponds faithfully to the description of the “ideal” general manager given in the telecoms group at the end of the summer:
“A woman
,
an engineer, in her early fifties
.”
With one detail: the operator was then looking for a - or a - general manager compatible with Stéphane Richard.
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