Manager
He began his career as an entrepreneur in New York where he created a software company (FORMA SYSTEMS).
In January 2010, the Harvard Business Review after in depth evaluation of the performances of 2000 global CEOs between 1995 and 2009, published for the first time the list of The 100 Best-performing CEOs in the World in which Thierry Breton is ranked at the 62nd position (Harvard Business Review, January 2010).
He served as director in many boards such as: AXA; La Poste; DEXIA BANQUE; RODHIA; SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC; THOMSON SA (Chairman& CEO); FRANCE TELECOM (Chairman & CEO); ORANGE PLC (Non executive Chairman); BOUYGUES TELECOM; GROUP HONEYWELL BULL (Vice Chairman & CEO).
He seats today at the board of directors of CARREFOUR where he chairs the of the Compensation and Benefits Committee.
His career includes CEO positions at Group Honeywell Bull, Thomson, France Telecom, Atos :
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Famous quotes containing the word manager:
“I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Nothing could his enemies do but it rebounded to his infinite advantage,—that is, to the advantage of his cause.... No theatrical manager could have arranged things so wisely to give effect to his behavior and words. And who, think you, was the manager? Who placed the slave-woman and her child, whom he stooped to kiss for a symbol, between his prison and the gallows?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)