Director representing the employees
Sébastien Crozier, born in 1968, is Senior Vice-President and Director of Public Sponsorship within the Orange group.
He began his career in 1990 in telematic activities for the Alten group. He took over its General Management and became its major shareholder. He joined France Telecom Multimédia in 1994 to prepare the launch of online services and as such participated in the launch of Wanadoo. From 1998, he founded several start-ups in the area of online advertising and Internet service provision as a telecommunication operator, with more than 1.3 million customers under the Fnac, M6 and Société Générale brands. Following their acquisition in 2001 by France Telecom (which became Orange), he returned to the Group, becoming Head of Strategy and Innovation Management of part the Enterprise Division in 2003. He managed several subsidiaries in France and abroad on behalf of the Orange group, in Africa and Latin America, as Director of International Development.
He is also Chairman of CFE-CGC Orange. He is also Honorary Chairman of ADEAS (Association pour la défense de l’épargne et de l’actionnariat salariés – Association for the defense of employee saving and shareholding).
During the 2001-2002 presidential campaign, he acted as Jean-Pierre Chevènement’s permanent advisor on logistics and new technologies.
He is Vice President of the recognized public utility foundation Le Refuge.
Sébastien Crozier studied engineering at the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique (ESIEE) and the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in the field of artificial intelligence. He is a French national.
