Vincent Grivet, a French national, is a graduate from Paris’s École Polytechnique and Paris Tech Telecom.
Mr Grivet started his career in the Orange Group, where he held various positions in product marketing and M&A/International Development. He later worked for Orange Group’s Belgian operations, first as SVP, Development at Mobistar (mobile operator) and then as CEO of Orange’s internet operations in Belgium (Wanadoo at that time).
He was the co-founder and MD of Maxtel, an entrepreneurial Wireless Broadband start-up in 2006.
He later joined TDF Group, a leading digital infrastructure operator in Europe, as MD of HDRR, a Broadband Wireless venture created by TDF together with Groupe Bouygues, SFR and Caisse des Depots where he led the start of commercial operations, and then managed the consolidation of TDF ‘s Wimax assets with the one’s of Groupe Bolloré.
Until January 2019, he was VP of Broadcast Development at TDF, where he led the strategic efforts of TDF, in partnership with the leading French Broadcasters and other international ecosystem participants, to continuously modernize and integrate the terrestrial broadcast platform in the new digital and media consumption paradigms.
He served for several years as a Steering Board Member at DVB where he also chaired the groups dedicated to Terrestrial Broadcasting and Targeted Advertising. He has been also for many years a Board Member at IDATE Digiworld, the leading European think tank and research institute for the digital economy, and at Molotov, a highly innovative OTT/TV start-up recently acquired by Altice, the telecommunication multinational giant.
In June 2018, he was elected as Chairman of HbbTV, the European organization which develops standards for innovative and interactive TV services. In addition to serving the HbbTV Chairmanship mandate, Mr Grivet is conducting consulting assignments for several players of the European TV and digital ecosystem, notably in conjunction with the introduction of targeted advertising.
