Pierre Danon

Pierre Danon (born 1956) is a French entrepreneur.

He currently sits on the board of directors of several companies in Europe.

He is chairman of SoLocal Group in Paris.

He is also the executive chairman of Volia in Kyiv.

Danon earned a degree in civil engineering from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, a Master's in Law degree from Panthéon-Assas University, and an MBA from the Institut Superieur des Affaires (HEC School of Management MBA, Paris).

Danon worked for 20 years at Xerox in the areas of finance, sales, marketing, customer service, and research.

His career, which began in France, continues in various European countries and the United States.

In 1998, Danon became President of Xerox Europe, the operational arm of Xerox Corporation in Europe.

In September 2000, Danon was appointed CEO of BT Retail where he is responsible for relations with over 21 million UK customers from individuals to enterprises large and small.

BT Retail then employs 60,000 people and its annual turnover is around 13.4 billion pounds.

Danon is also a member of the board of directors of British Telecom.

From 2002 to 2004, Danon was an independent director of the company Hays PLC, one of the world's specialist recruitment firm.

In March 2005, he is appointed chief operating officer of Capgemini Group, a management consulting and IT services group that employs approximately 50,000 people in more than 30 countries for a total turnover of 6.3 billion euros.

Danon has successfully turned around Capgemini's business in the United States and stimulated a global approach to delivery in India.

In 2006, Danon helped the investment fund Babcock & Brown Capital to take-over Eircom.

He became its president from 2006 to 2008.

Eircom employs nearly 8,000 people and offers mobile and fixed line communication services for individuals and businesses in Ireland.

In May 2008, Danon was elected vice-chairman of TDC.

In September 2008, Danon became president of Numericable-Completel a post he held until 2012.

The group is the third largest fixed line operator in France and has its own fiber infrastructure.

It addresses the consumer market with the cable operator Numericable which delivers quadruple play services and whose network is available to more than 9 million households.

Completel covers the corporate market, and is the third largest service provider in France dedicated to enterprises.

The turnaround of customer service, strategic acquisitions, and especially the signing of the Bbox Fiber contract with Bouygues Telecom marked Danon's presidency.

The group continues since then on its business trajectory until its merger with SFR.

In this capacity, he participated in the November 2011 IPO.

TDC is the leading provider of communications solutions in Denmark, with a strong presence in Norway, through the cable-operator GET.

TDC employs around 9,000 people, with an enterprise value of about 9 billion euros.

Since May 2011, Danon is also the executive chairman of Volia, cable operator based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The shareholders of Volia are Providence Equity Partners Fund (PEP) and Sigma Bleyser Fund (SBF).

Volia delivers its services to nearly one and a half million customers and employs 3,000 people.

In April 2013, Danon engineered the merger between Agrogénération and Harmelia on behalf of SBF, which gave rise to an agroholding with a market capitalization of around 200 million euros, which operates nearly 100,000 hectares in Ukraine.

In October 2013, he was elected vice-chairman of the board of AgroGénération and left this position in June 2019.

During the period 2016–2017, TDC delivered a 25% annualised return to its shareholders and Danon then left the board.

In September 2017, Danon was appointed as chairman of the board of SoLocal Group, the leading French digital company.

In March 2017, Danon was elected chairman of the board of TDC.

In 2017, TDC was acquired by Macquarie.

In September 2017, following the closing of the purchase by PEP of MTG Baltics, Danon became executive chairman of the entity, now called All Media Baltics, strong of 500 people and leader of the free TV and satellite-pay TV in each of the three countries.

In December, Danon has recruited a CEO to continue the journey and left the position in December 2019.

Following the Covid crisis, he successfully led a substantial financial restructuring from March 2020.

The CEO left the company in September 2020 and Danon became chairman and CEO, recruited a new CEO in April 2021 and then resumed his position as non executive chairman.