Title Vice President Strategic Partnerships & Open Services Company Orange Group Bio Xavier joined Orange Group fifteen years ago, working from the early stages within the Media, Broadcast & Internet Industry. He began as Technical Director for Broadcast solutions and then Marketing Director for GlobeCast, a France Telecom subsidiary specialized in the satellite and broadcast business. In particular he contributed to the expansion of GlobeCast services in Asia and the Americas through acquisition and partnerships, and diversified its product portfolio from satellite to cable distribution. Xavier also made a big step into the entrepreneurial ecosystem and founded SmartJog in 2002, a start up company acquired by TDF and a leading operator and provider of audiovisual, new media services . In 2002 Xavier became Sales Director for Large Accounts of France Telecom for all Telecom & Media & Aerospace sector and developed innovative Telecommunications solutions, ranging from networks solutions to global integration services and telephony over IP. In 2006, Xavier joined Orange Group and the New Growth Business Unit and he is currently Vice President for Strategic Partnerships within Orange Group. He has led the development of Advertising Solutions and was responsible for interactive advertising partnerships with Media & Advertising players for Orange Group as a major three-screen player in the Advertising Industry, present in Web, Mobile and IPTV. He overlooked the Strategic & Product Marketing of solutions towards Advertisers and Media Agencies , including rolling out Mobile Advertising in all Orange countries, developing interactive advertising on IPTV and data targeting. He is now leading for Orange Group the Strategic Partnerships within the broadband, TV and Mobile Digital Ecosystem including partnerships with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Nokia and other manufacturers and chipset vendors. He was instrumental in 2011 in launching strategic partnerships with TV manufacturers like Samsung to develop and launch Orange TV experience on connected TV screens and Microsoft/Xbox launching the 1st Kinect enabled TV experience in France. Xavier is managing mobile partnerships on Android and Windows devices, including deep service integration with Orange services customisation and operator billing. In addition Xavier is now also leading Orange Partner, the vehicle to manage and coordinate startup partnerships as part of the Orange open innovation process in liaison with the venture arm Orange Capital. As part of those activities Xavier also overheads the product development of new open innovative services with the ecosystem on subjects relating around privacy, data management and trusted cloud services. Xavier has a deep knowledge of the Telecommunication Industry within the Internet & Media ecosystem. Xavier is a fellow member of Corps des Télécoms & French Ecole Polytechnique as well as an Executive MBA graduate of the ESSEC-Mannheim Marketing School.