iliad’s Board of Directors have appointed Aude Durand as the Group’s Deputy CEO, based on a proposal by its CEO, Thomas Reynaud.
Up until her appointment, Aude was Deputy CEO of iliad Holding, serving in this capacity since 2020 and leading several major Group projects. These included overseeing the launches of the Freebox Pop
and Ultra, the creation of the Free Proxi local subscriber assistance service and the structural organization of the Group’s data teams.
Aude is in charge of the Group’s artificial intelligence strategy, and in this role she managed the creation of the Paris-based independent research lab, Kyutai. She is also Chairman of Scaleway and Free Pro.
In addition, Aude is a member of the Boards of Directors of Millicom and Monaco Telecom.
Xavier Niel and Thomas Reynaud have extended their congratulations to Aude and have full confidence that she will succeed in her new leadership duties.
Created in the early 1990s, the iliad Group is the inventor of the world’s first triple-play box and is now a major European telecoms player, standing out for its innovative, straightforward and attractive offerings.
The Group is the parent of Free in France, iliad in Italy and Play in Poland, has over 17,400 employees serving 47.8 million
subscribers, and generated €9.0 billion in revenues in the last 12 months. In France, the Group is an integrated Fixed and Mobile Ultra-Fast Broadband operator and had 22.1 million retail subscribers at end-September 2023 (14.8 million Mobile subscribers and 7.3 million Fixed-line subscribers).
In Italy – where it launched its business in 2018 under the iliad brand – it is the country’s fourth-largest mobile operator with over 13% market share, and had more than 10.6 million mobile subscribers at end-September 2023.
In Poland, the Group became an integrated convergent operator following the acquisition of UPC Polska in 2022, and at end-September 2023 had over 13.0 million Mobile subscribers and 2.0 million Fixed-line subscribers. The iliad Group is Europe’s sixth-largest operator by number of retail Mobile subscribers (excluding M2M) and Fixed-line Internet subscribers.
