Cottet replaces Couture as Orange’s growth activities chief

Jean-Paul Cottet, currently Orange’s executive vice-president of marketing and innovation, has been promoted and will also assume responsibility for the group’s new growth activities business. He replaces Xavier Couture, who ha been named special assistant to CEO Stéphane Richard with responsibility for relations with the audiovisual sector.

Couture joined the France Telecom-Orange group in May 2008 as content director before taking charge of the new growth activities division at the end of 2010.