It is today in operational command of the French subsidiary

Twelve months. Ideally, this was the time thought benefit Stéphane Richard before taking the reins of France Telecom. He who loves above all "doing things in the forms" will have to force its nature and to immerse a little faster than expected in the business. After to be granted a "break" for six weeks this summer, the former Director of Office of Christine Lagarde has found its new Office on 25 August. Officially under the cap of Director delegated, responsible for international. In fact, to succeed smooth Didier Lombard, walking plan arrested last May. "From now, none of the big issues concerning the business do me foreign", warned a few days after his arrival.

It began only, then, to move in series suicides occurred in France Telecom, and Stéphane Richard sensed that a worsening of the crisis might precipitate his enthronement. It is today in operational command of the French subsidiary. In first line. And no doubt required to draw a line on the "smart transition period" which opened to him.

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Five years administrator

Father of five children, pianist in his time, the new Executive Director France of France Telecom made its weapons in the ex-Générale of water, which he has successively led the real pole and the pole transport. Wishing to "put the effectiveness of the company at the service of the State", this close to Nicolas Sarkozy accepts in the spring of 2007 to become the Director of Jean-Louis Borloo in his ephemeral passage in Bercy. Position that it will therefore continue to occupy alongside Christine Lagarde, until the announcement of his departure in France Telecom, last spring.

His first steps in the group, this close to Nicolas Sarkozy made them on the edge of the foot, in trying to spare susceptibilities of House leaders not necessarily pleased to see this forty-eight years finance Inspector, very distant a priori Telecom culture. Former technical adviser of the new technologies with Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Ministry of industry, the person involved yet not completely zero: it was also, five years, administrator of the telecoms operator.

"Field as possible"

To become familiar with the company, said Stéphane Richard spent "a lot of time" with the members of the Executive Committee of first, but also with Eric Debroeck, the Director of the regulation, and Vivek Badrinath, responsible for the networks and operators. To break, perhaps, with his image of "bercy boy", the new number two of France Telecom had also decided "to make the most possible field". In early September, he thus spent a day at Orléans, in one of the territorial branches, up to accompany a technician in a client private access to the Internet. In the aftermath, a number of trips abroad were also planned, with or without Didier Lombard: in the program, the Spain, the United Kingdom, the Poland, West Africa, but also the United States, the Japan and the Jordan. All travel that may be released later. Because, for the time being, French workers and their being evil are of course the priority of the future President and CEO of France Telecom.