Georges Penalver

Georges Penalver is a member of the Group Management Committee, in charge of Group Strategy & Development.
Before joining France Telecom in 2005, he was deputy Chief Executive Officer at SAGEM Communication (SAFRAN Group), where he developed SAGEM’s broadband communications business from 2002 to 2005, overseeing the launch of new fixed and mobile product offerings as well as the company's industrial deployment in Tunisia, Asia and Eastern Europe and the development of sales networks in Europe, China, South-East Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and America.

Appointed to serve on SAGEM’s Management Board in 2001, he notably accompanied the mass development of mobile and internet services.

Georges Penalver is a graduate from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in Aix en Provence (gold medal, 1974) and École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications in Paris (1980) and was born in 1956.