David is Director of Business Development and Partnerships within the Orange France Telecom group.
He is part of Orange's Next.com team, a digital innovation unit responsible for initiating major directional changes within the group.
By looking at the evolution of customer usage trends and ecosystem transformations this team initiates new mass-market digital experiences across the Orange businesses.
David currently focus is on Business Development activities around Social TV with TVcheck, meeting with major TV channels and key agencies representing advertising accounts in order to convert advertising budgets for 2012
In 2007, David created a program called Mobile Open Communities, a framework for aggregating user generated content and social networking communities activities including Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, AirG for Orange Mobile customers. Through bundling with data tariffs in major European countries, this initiative has lead to an uplift in mobile offers sales.
Prior to Next.com David was Head of the Orange Partner program, EMEA.
David is also a guitar player, and a paraglider.
