Pierre Danon

Pierre Danon (born 1956) is a French senior corporate executive director, presently Chairman of Ypso Holding and of Altice B2B Holding (respective holdings of french operators Numericable and Completel).

Education

Danon earned a degree in civil engineering from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, a Master's in Law degree from the Faculte de Droit Paris II Assas, and an MBA from the Institut Superieur des Affaires (HEC School of Management MBA, Paris)

Career

Danon began his career in 1981 as a financial analyst at Rank Xerox. For the next 19 years, he held a variety of roles including general manager of Belgium, general manager of Benelux, Switzerland and Austria, senior vice president of Xerox Production Systems, president of Xerox Channels Group in Rochester, New York and then president of Xerox Europe based in the UK. For the next four and a half years, he served as chief executive of retail at BT Group plc

On 30 September 2005, "Le Figaro" announced that Danon, then Group Chief Operating Officer at Capgemini, had been interviewed for the President's position of Accor. In a statement on 7 October, CapGemini fired Danon after it was revealed that Accor cofounder and board chairman Gerard Pelisson, who reportedly wanted to give the position to his nephew Gilles Pélisson, told Capgemini about Danon's acceptance of the job. Gilles Pélisson was appointed in...
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