Atos, a French information technology service and consulting company announces the appointment of four top-level executives to strengthen its newly created Executive Board as the company accelerates its transformation cadence to resume its growth trajectory, optimize economic performance and ultimately create value for all its stakeholders.
Philippe Oliva will be appointed Chief Commercial Officer, joining on April 1. Philippe is capitalizing on a strong international experience in the digital sector, having spent almost 20 years at IBM where he has notably served as Vice President for Integrated Technologies, then Cloud Services and Hybrid Services in North America. Philippe joins Atos from Eutelsat where he has been Chief Commercial Officer for the past four years.
Stéphane Lhopiteau will be appointed Chief Financial Officer, taking over from Uwe Stelter on May 1. Stéphane is looking back on a 30-year track record in leading executive positions in corporate finance in tech and large project-driven industries, having notably served as CFO of Naval Group, Deputy CFO of Thales, and Chief Financial & Legal Officer of Areva / Orano.
Diane Galbe will be appointed Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer and General Secretary and will be also in charge of Mergers & Acquisitions, taking over from Alexandre Menais, joining on March 7. Diane joins Atos from Suez where she spent 15 years in leading corporate and business positions, serving most recently as Member of the Executive Committee and Senior Executive VP Group in charge of Strategy, Transformation, and of the global Business Unit Smart & Environmental Solutions.
Jean-Philippe Poirault is appointed Head of Big Data & Security (BDS), effective March 1, taking over from Pierre Barnabé who will stay until the end of April to ensure a smooth transition. Jean-Philippe is a seasoned executive of the telecom and cloud industries, with extensive experience in leading international management positions at Nokia (Alcatel Lucent), Ericsson, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since March 2020, he has served as EVP, Global Head of Telecom, Media, and Technology at Atos.
Rodolphe Belmer, CEO of Atos, comments, “I am delighted to welcome these world-class executives who will be a tremendous addition to the team. Their experience and leadership will be critical to accelerate Atos’ business cadence and transformation pace and ultimately to orchestrate the rebound of the Group.”
“Their joining us also demonstrates that our new colleagues share my conviction that Atos has all assets at hand to get back on track, and first and foremost its highly dedicated and talented people around the world. The Group holds leading positions in cyber security, high-performance computing, cloud and digital transformation which are the growth engines of today and tomorrow,” Rodolphe Belmer added.
Rodolphe Belmer further said, “This is the third major step of Atos’ relaunch, after reestablishing sound financial foundations and the adaptation of the Group’s governance, evidencing our determination to undertake a high cadence transformation to put the company back on the track of growth and industry level performance that all our stakeholders can expect from us.”
