Orange Peoplewatch: AI leadership swaps in B2B; Utiq makes latest exec change
August 2026 edition: 20+ senior and strategic leadership changes at Orange, including new AI leadership at Orange Business and Orange Cyberdefense and the first executive switch-up at adtech venture Utiq since arrival of CEO Will Harmer.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Amanda Prestige; Anthropic; AURA IT; Banque des Territoires; Bleu; CNP Assurances; Desjardins; Deutsche Telekom; EDF Invest; L’Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (French Cybersecurity Agency); MásOrange; OffSec; Orange; Orange Belgium; Orange Business; Orange Concessions; Orange Corse; Orange Cyberdefense; Orange France; Orange Group; Orange Ile-de-France; Orange Poland; Orange Réunion and Mayotte; Polska Izba Informatyki i Telekomunikacji (Polish Chamber of IT & Telecommunications/PIIT); Polkomtel; Scorentis; SNCF; SNCF Group; SNCF Voyageurs; Sofrecom; Sofrecom West Africa; T-Mobile Poland; Telefónica; Utiq; Virtual Minds; Vodafone.
- Geographies: Africa; Asia-Pacific; Austria; Benelux; Belgium; Côte d’Ivoire; Europe; France; Germany; Italy; Middle East; Oceania; Poland; Spain; United Kingdom (UK); United States of America (USA).
- People: Max Baum; Simon Chiarisoli; Gregory Dauriol; Marion Dubos; Karine Dussert-Sarthe; Amr El-Tablawy; Gayané Manukyan; Małgorzata Narczyk; Adrien Ollivier; Laetitia Orsini Sharps; Christopher N’dede; Khaoula Slaoui;
- Themes: Advertising technology (adtech); AI (artificial intelligence); AI First Programme; Agentic AI; Authentic Consent Service; Chief AI & Future Work Officer; Chief AI Officer; Chief Data & AI Officer; Chief People Officer; Cloud Avenue SecNum; Cloud services; Collaboration tools; Consenthub; Consentpasses; Cookies; Country Budget Owner; Cybersecurity; Cybersecurity training; Data & AI Ambassador; Data governance; Enterprise cloud migration; Generative AI; GenAI platform; Identity resolution; Innovation & AI; Internet of Things (IoT); Live Collaboration; Live Intelligence; Omnichannel personalisation; Privacy-first advertising; Pseudonymised tokens; SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification; Smart Mobility; Sovereign cloud; Sovereign suite of collaboration tools; Strategic leadership changes; Telco-powered first party identifier; Trust@Sofrecom strategy.
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