New Chief Technology & Innovation Officer joins from Schneider Electric
Bruno Zerbib has been appointed Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of Orange and member of the Group’s Executive Committee from 1 June 2023. He is replacing Michaël Trabbia who was appointed Executive Director and CEO of Orange Wholesale on 3 April.
Bruno Zerbib is leaving his post as Chief Technology and Digital Officer of Schneider Electric. Christel Heydemann, Chief Executive Officer of Orange since April 2022, was formerly Executive Vice Presiden Europe at Schneider Electric.
Former glories
Zerbib graduated from TélécomSud Paris and the University of Paris Cité where he specialised in IT. His career began in 1998 in Silicon Valley where he held positions at Hewlett Packard then Cisco before moving to Yahoo in 2012. He led the company’s transformation into a cloud-native platform able to handle 1 billion users monthly.
In 2017, Zerbib joined Altice as Director of Technology and IT. He worked as part of Altice’s Global Engineering Innovation division in areas including augmented TV, technology partnerships and network transformation for all of Altice subsidiaries.
In 2018, he joined Schneider Electric as Director of Technology and Digital to provide more efficient, sustainable technological solutions for customers, particularly through the integration of cloud, AI and industrial IoT.