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Sanjiv Ahuja, 50, Senior Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of Orange, is also in charge of UK and international operations. On April 26, 2007, France Telecom announced the intention of Mr. Ahuja to relinquish his executive positions within the Group in order to pursue a series of new ventures. Mr. Ahuja will maintain his links with France Telecom as Chairman of Orange UK and as an advisor to the Group’s Chairman and CEO. Mr. Ahuja will be replaced by Olaf Swantee (see below). Mr. Ahuja joined Orange in April 2003 as Director of Operations then, as of March 2004, as Executive Vice President for France Telecom’s Personal Communications Services and Chief Executive Officer of Orange S.A. Before joining Orange, Sanjiv Ahuja was Chief Executive Officer of Comstellar Technologies, a company developing and marketing new communication technologies. He previously served as Chairman of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), the world’s largest provider of support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services for the telecommunications sector. He began his career with IBM in 1979 as an IT engineer. From 1987 to 1990, he was responsible for the transactional process strategy and, from 1990 to 1994, he served as head of the Distribution Networks and Systems Division, launching IBM’s global presence in the market for telecommunications software. Sanjuv Ahuja is an electrical engineering graduate of the University of Delhi and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Columbia in New York. | 