Orange Group has announced
the appointment of Bruno Zerbib as its Chief Technology & Innovation
Officer and member of the Group's Executive Committee from 1 June 2023.
According to a statement issued
on Tuesday, he will replace Michaël Trabbia who was appointed Executive
Director and CEO of Orange Wholesale as of April 3. Bruno Zerbib was previously
Chief Technology and Digital Officer of Schneider Electric.
Commenting on the
appointment, the Chief Executive Officer of Orange Group, Christel Heydemann
said “I am delighted to welcome Bruno
Zerbib to the Group’s executive management team as director of innovation. As
new technologies such as artificial intelligence and network function
virtualization become increasingly prevalent, we must strive to remain at the
forefront of these new developments to stay ahead in our various markets and
before our customers. I would also like to sincerely thank Michaël Trabbia for
his tenure as head of innovation.”
Bruno Zerbib is a
graduate of TélécomSud Paris and the University of Paris Cité where he
specialized in IT. He began his career in 1998 in Silicon Valley where he held
several positions at Hewlett Packard and then at Cisco. He moved to Yahoo in
2012 where he led the company's transformation into a cloud-native platform
capable of handling over one billion monthly users.
n 2017, Bruno Zerbib
joined Altice as Director of Technology and IT. He worked as part of Altice’s
Global Engineering Innovation division on key topics such as augmented TV
experience, technology partnerships, and network transformation for all of
Altice's subsidiaries.
In 2018, he joined
Schneider Electric as Director of Technology and Digital to provide more
efficient, sustainable technological solutions to Schneider Electric customers,
in particular by integrating the use of the cloud, artificial intelligence, and
industrial IoT.
