Hugues Foulon

Speaker Bio

Hugues Foulon has been Executive Director of the Orange Group and CEO of Orange

Cyberdefense since 2018. He began his career in 1994 at “Générale des Eaux” (Veolia

Group), where he became director of a drinking water plant and then director of the

companies “Monégasque de Télédistribution” and “Monégasque des Eaux”. In 2000, he

made his first foray into the world of telecommunications by joining Monaco Telecom, part of

the Vivendi Group, as Deputy Managing Director in charge of functional departments. In

2005, he joined the Group as Commercial Finance Director for the Mobile business. He

remained there for two years before leaving for North Africa to become Director of

Management Control at Maroc Telecom. In 2007, he returned to Orange, where he held

successive positions as Director of Management Control for the Marketing and Innovation

division, Director to the Group’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of finance, and

then Chief Financial Officer for the Africa and Middle East division. He was then appointed

Director to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orange and Secretary of the Group’s

Executive Committee. He is a graduate of the “Ecole Polytechnique” and the “Ecole

Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA)”. He is also an auditor of the 66th

session on defense policy at the “Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale (IHEDN)”.