Career
He is Non Executive Director of eServGlobal, Windeo, Alpha Networks, Louisiana Baule Privileges and NovaSparks. Prior to joining British Telecom, he had built businesses or co-founded several companies. François was President and Chief Executive Officer of Lucent Technologies Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 1999 to 2002 where he successfully managed the integration of 38 companies acquired by Lucent.
Before joining Lucent, he worked at Ascend Communications, where he had the position of Senior Vice President, International coming from the acquisition of Stratus Computer.
He has an extensive knowledge of the International and European sector. He holds a Master of Science (Drug Enforcement Administration) in Robotics/Artificial Intelligence He graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes and started his career as a searcher in International Business Machines Corporation laboratories