The Orange group
announces the appointment of Laurent Martinez, the current Chief Financial
Officer of Alstom, as Executive Director in charge of Finance, Performance, and
Development from 1 September 2023.
Jean-Michel Thibaud,
Deputy Chief Financial Officer of the Group, will act as interim manager during
this transition period. Laurent Martinez has been Alstom's Chief Financial
Officer and a member of its Executive Committee since July 2018.
During this period, he
played a key role in the transformation of Alstom. As a graduate of electrical
and telecommunications engineering and with a Master's degree in finance and
accounting, he has spent a significant part of his career at Airbus. In 1996,
he joined Astrium, the defense and space subsidiary of Airbus, where he held
several management positions in controlling.
In 2004, he became
Finance Director before being appointed Director of Controlling, Performance, and Accounting for the Airbus group in 2009. He took over as head of the Airbus
Services Business Unit in 2015.
Commenting the new
appointment, the Chief Executive Officer of Orange, Christel Heydemann, stated
that he is excited to welcome Lauren Martinez to head the Group’s finances.
According to him his experience
in business transformation will be of great value for the deployment of Orange’s
new strategic plan ‘Lead the Future’.
