Location Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Current directorships and professional positions
In France: Chairman of the Board and CEO (1) of Alcatel Lucent*, Honorary Chairman of Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales (GIFAS).
Abroad: Chief Executive Officer of Keynolt Inc., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aptamir Inc., Senior Advisor of Evercore Partners
Inc.*, Director of Cellfish Media LLC.
Positions held over the last 5 years, now ended
In France: Co-managing Partner of Lagardère Group*, Member of the Supervisory Board of Lagardère Active and of Lagardère Services, Director of Éditions P. Amaury, and of Crédit Agricole* SA, Permanent Representative of Lagardère SCA to the Board of Directors of Hachette SA, Permanent Representative of Hachette SA to the Board of Directors of Lagardère Services, Vice-Chairman, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Arjil Commanditée - Arco.
Abroad: Chairman and CEO of Lagardère North America Inc., Director of Schlumberger* and of Lagardère Unlimited Inc.
Career
Philippe Camus Philippe Camus was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alcatel-Lucent in October 2008. To lead the Group as it prepares for the proposed combination with Nokia, and for the duration of the transition period, Philippe Camus was appointed Chairman and Interim CEO as of September 1, 2015.
Philippe Camus is Senior Advisor of Evercore Partners. Philippe Camus left the Lagardère Group in 2012. He was co-managing partner of the Lagardère Group and Chairman and CEO of Lagardère North America.
He began his career in 1972 in the Finance Department of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations. After being Financial Analyst and Portfolio Manager, he was appointed Head of the Fixed Income Directorate in 1976. Under his leadership the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations improved its operating efficiency on the bond market generating higher profit and modernizing the French bond market.
He joined the Lagardère Group in 1982 as Executive Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Matra Group until 1992 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banque Arjil until 1993.
He was appointed Managing Director of the Lagardère Group in 1993 and was co-managing partner of Lagardère SCA from 1998 to June 2012. As Managing Director of Lagardère, he managed the restructuring of the Matra Group (Aerospace and High Technology) by implementing a tight financial and reporting governance structure and by divesting units to focus the activities on the core business.
He personally managed every acquisition, merger, partnership or divestiture realized by Matra from 1982 until 1998.
Starting in 1986, he engineered the transformation of Matra and Hachette into an integrated company, thus founding the Lagardère Group. As part of this he managed the rescue of the Hachette Group after the bankruptcy of one of its ventures in television broadcasting (La Cinq). His expertise in international negotiations and management, led him to conduct and oversee the work bringing to the creation of EADS, (now Airbus Group) the 2nd largest aerospace company worldwide. First named Chief Operating Officer, then Chief Executive Officer of Aérospatiale - Matra in 1999, he was Chief Executive Officer of EADS from 2000 until 2005.
Philippe Camus was a member of the French supervisory authority for the financial markets from 1996 to 2001.
He is a board member of the Institut d’Expertise et de Prospective of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has been President of GIFAS (French Aerospace Industries Association) from 2001 to 2005.
He was a director of Schlumberger from 2007 to April 2012. In July 2005, Philippe Camus was made Officier of the French Légion d’Honneur and in May 2004, he was awarded the Cross of the German Merit Order (Verdienstkreuz - 1 Klasse).
Philippe Camus has an Economics and Finance degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a Physics degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm) and a doctorate in Actuarial Sciences.
*Expertise: 43 years in banking, finance, insurance and 16 years in the industrial sector.







