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Orange Business Services expands leadership role of Didier Jaubert in anticipation of the accelerating evolution in networks and IT domains

Paris, September 30, 2011


Orange Business Services has appointed Didier Jaubert, current Head of Global Services, as Head of Global Communications Solutions, effective Oct. 1, replacing Marc Blanchet who is transitioning to Head of Enterprise France. Based in Paris, Blanchet will report to Delphine Ernotte Cunci, executive director, Orange France, and remains on the Orange Business Services leadership team.

In his expanded role of leading both Global Services and Global Communications Solutions, Jaubert will oversee six key areas:  Cloud Computing, Global Mobility, IP Advanced Services, Network Solutions, Unified Communications and Collaboration, and SOHO and SME offers. Based in Paris, Jaubert will continue to report to Vivek Badrinath, CEO, Orange Business Services.

“Our success in cloud computing is increasingly dependant on our ability to quickly leverage our strengths in both network and IT,” said Vivek Badrinath, CEO, Orange Business Services. “In addition, the unified communications market has accelerated its evolution, so it is crucial to streamline our organization and move a step forward in integration of network and IT services. The goal is to adapt very quickly to market changes and opportunities enabling us to fulfil the promise of making the business lives of our customers easier.”

A 25-year industry veteran, Jaubert joined Orange Business Services in 2007 as senior vice president to lead the Outsourcing and Large Projects organization worldwide.

Jaubert began his career at IBM in 1983 where he held a number of sales management positions, in both France and the U.S. Within IBM, he served as vice president, Global Technology Services, in charge of the banking and insurance sectors for France and Western Africa. He was notably responsible for IBM's main technological partnerships in these sectors. He previously spent three years managing IBM's Consulting and System Integration Division for France, Belgium and Middle East.

Jaubert holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and an economics degree from Université Paris 1/Sorbonne.

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Press Contacts:
Elizabeth Mayeri, Orange Business Services, elizabeth.mayeri@orange-ftgroup.com, +1 212 251 2086
Héloïse Rothenbühler, Orange, service.presse@orange-ftgroup.com, +33 1 44 44 93 93
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France Telecom-Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with 171,000 employees worldwide, including 105,000 employees in France, and sales of 10.9 billion euros in the first three months of 2012. Present in 33 countries, the Group had a customer base of 225 million customers at 31 March 2012, including 181 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group's single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 31 March 2012, the Group had 166 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

With its industrial project, "conquests 2015", Orange is simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders, as well as the society in which the company operates, through a concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future growth; through the Group's ambition to offer a superior customer experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and through the acceleration of international development.

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