Pierre Danon was appointed CEO of BT Retail in
October 2000. He is responsible for managing BT's
21 million UK customer relationships ranging from
consumers to major corporate clients and government.
BT Retail employs over 50,000 people with annual
revenues exceeding £14 billion. He is a
member of the BT Group Board and Operating Committee
and reports to Ben Verwaayen.
Before joining BT Retail he was president of Xerox
Europe, the European operations arm of Xerox Corporation.
Headquartered in Dublin, this is a major business
which in 1999 had revenues of $5.3 billion, employed
19,000 people and had manufacturing operations
in Ireland, the UK and Holland, as well as advanced
research and development centres in Cambridge
(UK) and Grenoble in France. He had been a senior
vice president of Xerox Corporation since 1997.
Prior to this, Pierre formed and was president
of Xerox Channels Group based in Rochester, New
York, to bring document solutions to the small
office/home office (SoHo) and networked office
environments via indirect channels including retail
stores, computer resellers and dealers.
Pierre joined the French company of Rank Xerox,
(which became Xerox Limited in 1997), as a financial
analyst in 1981. Following several finance and
marketing assignments, he was appointed general
manager of Rank Xerox Belgium in 1991, later becoming
general manager of Holland and then became general
manager of the Central Entity of Rank Xerox, based
in Amsterdam, with responsibility for Benelux,
Switzerland and Austria.
Pierre moved to the US to become senior vice president
of Xerox Production Systems where he was responsible
for the worldwide development, manufacturing and
delivery of production publishing systems, including
the Xerox DocuTech and DocuColour series, a business
division that generates some $3 billion in annual
revenues worldwide.
Pierre holds a degree in civil engineering from
the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, a
masters in law degree from the Faculte de Droit
Paris II Assas, and an MBA from the Institute
Superieur des Affaires. He was also a governor
of the European Foundation for Quality Management
(EFQM) until September 2000.
He is married with two sons.. |
