June 2015
TD Azlan entrusted the running of the HP EG business unit to François Fourré : A few weeks ago, François Fourré joined the TD Azlan team, Enterprise Division of Tech Data France, in the post of Director of the HP Enterprise business unit. His mission will be to any implement a way of further developing the Business Value HP Enterprise, and thus position TD Azlan as a leading partner in the HP Enterprise brand for its resellers. A graduate of ESIGELEC (class of 85), François Fourréhas more than 25 years of experience in the IT sector. He spent 12 years at Compaq, including 6 years in the post of Channel Director (second tier Resellers, Wholesalers (including Tech Data) and Corporate Resellers), he then held the post of Director of Major Account Sales. He then completed his experience for 8 years at Bouygues Telecom, where he successively held the posts of Data Director, Director of BtoB distribution, and then SMEs Market Director (etc.).

May 2015
Jacques Maugewas elected President of the Federation of Industries of Equipment for Vehicles (FlEV) and of the Union of Manufacturers of Equipment and Parts for Automobiles (SFEPA).
Born in 1955, ESIGELEC (class of 82), he worked at Valeo for nine years, where he was Vice-President of Valeo Service Branch GES, before joining Faurecia in 2003, as Deputy Group Director of Exhaust Product, then Deputy Group Director of Interior Systems (2006), Executive Vice-President, Faurecia Automotive Exteriors (2008) and, since 2013, President of Faurecia North America.

March 2015
Marine, pre-sales engineer in telecoms: "I wanted to be in the mobile and Internet sector" Marine always wanted to be an engineer. Her training at ESIGELEC in Rouen (class of 2012) allowed her to specialise in telecommunications. Today, at 25 years old, she works for Orange in cloud solutions.
(… ) Thanks to her knowledge of technical constraints, she contributes an expert eye, teaming up with a sales rep who is involved in the business side, to propose the best offers to potential Orange customers. "Specifically, I prepare technical architectures according to the request made", she explained. Solutions which can be physical - a telephony network - or digital, which then transition to the cloud (...).

March 2015
Vincent Marcatté appointed President of IFT
The eight Institutes for Technological Research (IRT) in France have created their association French Institutes of Technology (FIT). Vincent Marcatté, President of the IRT bocom, has just been named President of the FIT.
Director of Open Innovation at Orange Labs, he has also been President of the global competitiveness pole Images and Networks since the end of 2008. In his career, he contributed to the creation of France Telecom's first Internet platform which spawned Wanadoo. Thanks to his visionary commitment, since the early days of the Internet he has forged a reputation as an expert and has represented France Telecom at the World Wide Web Consortium (WSC) for several years.
He was Manager for a R&D laboratory specialising in the convergence of the Web and Audiovisual, which led to three spin-offs (Envivio, Streamezzo and WokUp).
Vincent Marcatté is a graduate of ESIGELEC (class of 85) and the Executive MBA programme of the ESSEC Paris business school. A married father of two, he has lived in Rennes for about fifteen years.
A man of challenges and commitment, an accomplished triathlete, he chaired bocom with one ambition: to make the IRT a collective success and elevate it to one of the top global digital technologies.

April 2015
Juliette Dumas, a commercial engineer at Générale du Solaire, a graduate of ESIGELEC (class of 2012).
«My job is to find clients who want to invest in small solar photovoltaic power plants. Recently, I went to see a farmer. He has 8000 m2 of buildings which are used to store apples. He wants to renovate the roof and install a power plant that we will then exploit. When a potential client calls me, it does not always lead to a contract. If the condition of the buildings is too poor or facing the wrong way (i.e. not full south) or if the connection to ERDF is too far away, it is not feasible! So, prior to performing my first visit, I check all these elements by telephone, by going on Google or with specific software. Then I go to sign a promise of sale and build a file. To finalise, I have to know the tariff at which ERDF wants to buy back the electricity that will be generated. If it is not high enough to make the work profitable, I walk away. It's frustrating, but that's how it is !»

March 2015
Ghizlane Benkacem, a graduate of ESIGELEC (class of 2013), a commercial engineer at SPIE.
«One of the reasons that pushed me to join ESIGELEC, after the preparatory class, is the ability to be able to spend the next 3 years on an apprenticeship. This formula has been a true springboard. I discovered the various jobs performed at the company, as well as its operation. It was therefore natural for the company to hire me once I was awarded my diploma. Another option of the school which made a difference for me was the generalist training. I often take the example of a pen, to define my job, I sell a pen and I know thanks to my theoretical training how it was made, the technical background associated with that of business only adds an extra string to my bow.
I intervene at each stage of the project, beforehand by detecting the decision-making channels and by advising the client and also afterwards by following up on the submission of the bid until the execution of the work. Don't look for me in my office, I am rarely there. This work is also very rewarding, my clients are sometimes large institutions. An opportunity.. »