Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orange
Jacques Aschenbroich, born in 1954, has been Chairman of the Orange Board of Directors since May 19, 2022. He was Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Valeo group from March 20, 2009 until February 18, 2016, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until January 26, 2022, then Chairman of the Valeo Board of Directors from January 27, 2022 until December 31, 2022. He is now Honorary Chairman of Valeo.
Before joining Valeo, he held several positions in the French government and served in the Prime Minister’s office in 1987 and 1988.
He then pursued a business career at the Saint-Gobain group from 1988 to 2008. Having managed subsidiaries in Brazil and Germany, he became Managing Director of the flat glass division of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and went on to become Chairman of Saint-Gobain Vitrage in 1996. As Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain from October 2001 to December 2008, he managed flat glass and high-performance materials from January 2007 and, as the Director of Saint-Gobain Corporation and General Delegate to the United States and Canada, he directed the Group’s operations in the United States from September 1, 2007.
He is also a Director and Chairman of the Governance Committee of BNP Paribas, Lead Director of Total Energies and President of the French-American Foundation France.
Jacques Aschenbroich is an Ingénieur diplômé du Corps des Mines. Jacques Aschenbroich is an Officer of the French Order of Merit and the French Legion of Honor. He is a French national.
