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DANON
Pierre
CEO BT Retail, Member of the BT Group plc Board and member of
the Group Executive Comittee
Session 23/11/01– 12:00
Large bande : quelles stratégies de contenus ?
Broadband : content strategies ?
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Pierre Danon was appointed CEO of BT Retail in October 2000. He
is responsible for managing BT's 23 million UK customer relationships
ranging from consumers to major corporate clients and government.
BT Retail employs 52,000 people with annual revenues exceeding
£10 billion. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee
and reports to Sir Peter Bonfield.
Before joining BT Retail he was president of Xerox Europe, the
European operations arm of Xerox Corporation. Headquartered in
Dublin, this is a major business which in 1999 had revenues of
$5.3 billion, employed 19,000 people and had manufacturing operations
in Ireland, the UK and Holland, as well as advanced research and
development centres in Cambridge (UK) and Grenoble in France.
He had been a senior vice president of Xerox Corporation since
1997.
Prior to this, Pierre formed and was president of Xerox Channels
Group based in Rochester, New York, to bring document solutions
to the small office/home office (SoHo) and networked office environments
via indirect channels including retail stores, computer resellers
and dealers.
Pierre joined the French company of Rank Xerox, (which became
Xerox Limited in 1997), as a financial analyst in 1981. Following
several finance and marketing assignments, he was appointed general
manager of Rank Xerox Belgium in 1991, later becoming general
manager of Holland and then became general manager of the Central
Entity of Rank Xerox, based in Amsterdam, with responsibility
for Benelux, Switzerland and Austria.
Pierre moved to the US to become senior vice president of Xerox
Production Systems where he was responsible for the worldwide
development, manufacturing and delivery of production publishing
systems, including the Xerox DocuTech and DocuColour series, a
business division that generates some $3 billion in annual revenues
worldwide.
Pierre holds a degree in civil engineering from the Ecole Nationale
des Ponts et Chaussees, a masters in law degree from the Faculte
de Droit Paris II Assas, and an MBA from the Institute Superieur
des Affaires. He was also a governor of the European Foundation
for Quality Management (EFQM) until September 2000.
He is married with two sons...
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