Moreover I immediately felt that it would go far

Despite his past to advise departmental, Jean-Noël trunk hate that it takes for a pantoufleur. If it has been named CEO of Orange France, at only 38 years old, a graduate of the ESSEC business school the is not a body of officials. Just before joining the first mobile operator in France as Director of strategy and brand, in August 2002, he was about to accept a position with the software publisher American Siebel evidence that the former advisor in new technologies of Lionel Jospin was not an ardent need to be "recasé." The President of the FNAC, Denis Olivennes, who had also sought to recruit it at the time, testified: "the Government was rather a parenthesis for that man of business." It has nothing of a technocrat.

"My original mold, it's Andersen Consulting now Accenture," insists Jean-Noël trunk. The consulting company that he has integrated in 1993 trained him in the hard 'years with triple, as in scrabble. With 13-hour days. Just what it needed that this beast of work which still sends e-mails to 3 o'clock in the morning is not running in circles. Twenty years, it is already "boredom" which had precipitated it in active life, as assistant to the MP Gerard Fuchs, at the National Assembly and then to the European Parliament...

The software of command and management of clients that the young consultant was installed in France Telecom is still in use in Orange. It is one of his pride, the same as the suffix of e-Government, the ". site" that he created when he was chargé de mission to the Commissioner-General of the Plan, from 1995 to 1997. Or even his "baby", Service - public .fr, a sprawling Portal launched during his passage at Matignon, from 1997 to 2002. Ah, life in the cabinet! "Some officials wanted to control the Internet before that Internet users in France", smiles this "evangelizing" administration.

As a child, his father had promised a computer provided that he learn typing and programming. This hobby is passed, but the Technophilia remained. In his jacket, there is now a phone-agenda Qtek almost all functions of the "universal remote" he imagines for the mobile of the future. It stores to its "list", a true passion: that of its film library (2,500 titles), that of his MP3s, but also that of the professional tasks.

"When you want to delegate, should know prioritize problems", says the leader who discovered a "passion management" four years ago. His predecessor Didier Quillot, who had recruited him in Orange and promoted as Assistant this summer, is on the contrary that he controls everything: "but it is a quality for a pattern." Moreover, I immediately felt that it would go far. It is someone of brilliant, and above all, extremely reliable. He made what he said.

However, there is a point on which the accessible man, taking the RER for travel Le Vésinet-Arcueil, remains discreet: its commitment to the PS. The former President of the club of the young rocardiens Sciences po displayed his "neutrality" out of respect for its employees.