Xavier Niel
Xavier Niel joined ATEME’s board in December 2006. He is Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for the Iliad Group, a dominant player in the French Internet and Telecommunications market with 4.5 million subscribers to ISP subsidiaries, Free® and Alice. Xavier has been responsible for the Group’s major strategic developments, from the development of Internet access services to the launch of the Freebox project, the deployment of optical fiber and recently the acquisition of a mobile telephony license with a commercial launch planned in 2012. In late 2010, Niel was a member of a group of investors which acquired a controlling stake in the newspaper Le Monde.