To accompany the development of Orange towards new areas for growth, Didier Lombard, France Telecom Chairman and Chief Excetive Officer, has decided to create a new Division, reporting directly to him. This ‘new growth businesses’ Division comprises the Content and Audience & On-line Advertising Divisions and is responsible for coordinating all of the Group's current or future growth initiatives. Didier Lombard has entrusted this new Executive Division to Raoul Roverato, starting on March 31, 2008.
 
Raoul Roverato joined the Group in 1994 as part of the Key Account section in France Telecom's Enterprise branch. After various operational positions within Equant, he was appointed to head up the convergent solutions product line in November 2001, and then Equant’s consulting division, which became Orange Business Services in 2006. Since March 2004, Raoul Roverato had been Chief of Staff to Didier Lombard, France Telecom's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Raoul Roverato, 37, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST).