Gilles TALDU

A high-ranked engineer from the prestigious Corps des mines, the greatest technical corps of the French state. He ended his adminstrative career as industrial adviser in the cabinets of the ministry of Industry, the ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister. He created Thomson Broadcast Systems, the television images main system manufacturer, and joined the Thomson executive committee as director of the B-to-B (Business to Business) branch to take part in the economic recovery and privatisation of the company which was valued at one Franc. He joined the Capgemini executive committee in 2003 in order to launch the industrialisation of a company of IT services by taking the risk of successfully establishing centres in India.