Position on the date
of his appointment to the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies,
27 September 2004
Alain Bravo is Director
General of Supélec since 1 September 2004.
He has been Chairman of Abhexis
(a technology transfer consultancy) since 2001.
From February 2003 to April
2004 he managed the FutuRIS initiative with the support of Association Nationale
de Recherche Technologique (ANRT - National Technology Research Association).
He has been President of Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications
de Bretagne, the national telecommunications school in Brittany, since 1997.
Alain
Bravo worked from 1970 to 1985 at the General Telecommunications Directorate (DGT),
where he was Production Director from 1980 until his departure.
From
1985 to 1995 he worked for Compagnie Générale des Eaux, where he
became COO in 1994. In 1988 he set up Société Française de
Radiotéléphonie (SFR), which he chaired until 1992. He further managed
Compagnie Générale de Vidéocommunications from 1991 to 1993
and created SIRIS (today 9Telecom) in 1995.
In 1995 he
joined Alcatel as President of the Mobile Network Division. From 1998 to 2001,
he was Vice President Research and Technology.
Alain Bravo
is President of Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications
(National Telecommunications Research Network) and chairs the Advisory Committee
on Telecommunications Networks and Services attached to the Minister in charge
of Industry and the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications,
France's telecommunications watchdog.
Alain Bravo is a
telecommunications graduate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications,
France's national telecommunications school.
