Orange Technocentre, Luc Bretones appointed as Director: stakes and opportunity for the Group.

Henceforth official, this nomination is part of Orange  marketing new strategy to improve its image worldwide and highlight its portfolio of services and products.  

For those who unfamiliar, the Technocentre, established in January
2006, is the Group’s" product and design factory".

Henceforth Luc Bretones previously Vice President for SMEs at Orange Business Services, oversees the marketing and development of the Group’s innovations for the benefit of Orange customers. He also supervises the definition and implementation of the design strategy for all Group products and services, providing customers with a consistent experience across all interfaces.

According to the expectations, these products must be ‘’useful, easy-to-use, reliable and environmentally sound’’.

Connectikpeople has discovered that, the Technocentre brings together marketing, development and implementation expertise to work on more than forty projects in a multicultural environment. More than 500 people work at the Technocentre in its four sites: Châtillon, France, London, Amman, Jordan and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Among the Technocentre's flagship products, we have: Livebox Play, Orange TV, Orange Money and the Orange Cloud.

Regarding Luc Bretones, he joined the Group in January 1997 as a sales engineer for large accounts before taking positions as a strategy consultant in the Enterprise division and then the customer web channel manager for large accounts. He also manages the think tank Renaissance Numérique, serves as Vice President of the Institute G9+, and is President of Transition Numérique+.

About Orange

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at 31 March 2013, including 104,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the Group has a total customer base of close to 230 million customers at 31 March 2013, including 172 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services.

Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).