Corporate governance

Graduate from the Polytechnique School and ENST (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécoms), Joseph Haddad created his 1st software company in 1987 and developed it internationally, then selling it to IBM in 1990. After 2 years in the USA, he became a business angel through his family company "J2H". He founded Netgem in 1996 and is today the main shareholder and Chairman of Netgem Group.
 

Member of the Haddad family, Mrs.Laura Wilner is a graduate of ESCP Business School. After an entrepreneurial experience (Frichti, Wild & The Moon), she is today project leader at the Boston Consulting Group.
She was appointed as a director of Netgem in May 2023, representing J2H.

Alexandra Barth was a consultant at the Agence pour la Création d'Entreprise (now BPI) before joining Caisse des Dépôts as Investment Director in 2011. She has been involved in the financing of telecoms projects, in particular public-initiative networks, and has sat on numerous boards of tech & M&dia companies to support their growth (Universign, My Trip Tailor, Universciné, Up Factor, etc.). Alexandra knows the Netgem group well, having sat on the strategic board of its subsidiary Videofutur since 2016 until the group's buyout of minority interests. She is a graduate of ESCP Business School.

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.

Former student of the Ecole Polytechnique and graduate of the ENPC, then banker at Lazard Frères, former Managing Director of Eclair group, Jean Mizrahi is an entrepreneur and business creator (JMS, Ymagis, Decoralia).

Former student of the École Polytechnique and the ENA, inspector of finance, Marc Tessier was Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Energy, Director General of the Havas Agency and of Canal +, then of the CNC and President of France Televisions.

Marc Tessier has held several positions within the Netgem Group, notably in the Video on Demand activities.