- Sanjiv Ahuja
Sanjiv Ahuja is a member ofFrance Telecom 's Group Management Committee, andChairman ofOrange SA .Sanjiv Ahuja joined Orange SA in April 2003 as Chief Operating Officer and since March 2004 was Executive Vice President of France Telecom's Personal Communication Services, and Chief Executive Officer of Orange S.A.
From 2004 to May 2007, Sanjiv Ahuja was the
Chief Executive Officer ofOrange SA , before becoming the Chairman.Before joining Orange, Mr. Ahuja was Chief Executive Officer of Comstellar technologies, a California-based company focused on creating and bringing to market innovative communications technologies.
He was previously
President ofTelcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), and led the growth of Telcordia into European markets.He began his career at IBM in 1979 as a software engineer. From 1987 to 1990 he managed IBM's strategy for transaction processing, and from 1990 to 1994 he was responsible for IBM's distributed network and systems business, leading IBM into the telecommunications software market globally.
Mr. Ahuja has a degree in electrical engineering from Delhi University, India, and a Master's degree in computer science from Columbia University in New York. He was born in 1956.
Mr. Ahuja also sits on the non-executive boards for
Williams-Sonoma andCadbury Schweppes .
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