Frank Dangeard

Frank Dangeard joined the Board of Directors of IHS Holding Limited in September 2020 and is an Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr. Dangeard was Chairman & CEO of Thomson from September 2004 to February 2008. Prior to that he was Deputy CEO of France Telecom from September 2002 to September 2004, Deputy CEO and Deputy Chairman of Thomson Multimedia from June 1997 to September 2002, and Managing Director of the investment bank SG Warburg & Co. Ltd from October 1988 to June 1997.

Mr. Dangeard currently serves as Chairman of the boards of Gen Digital (previously NortonLifelock), and NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of NatWest Group, and as a director of the NatWest Group and of Spear Investments B.V. Mr. Dangeard has previously served on the boards of RPX, Orange, Equant, Wanadoo, Eutelsat, SonaeCom, Arqiva and on the board of Telenor as Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman. He has been a member of the Advisory Boards of the Harvard Business School and of Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, and was a founding board member of Bruegel, the European think-tank.

Mr. Dangeard graduated from the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Prix Jouy-Entreprise), the Paris Institut d’Études Politiques (Lauréat) and from the Harvard Law School (Fulbright Scholar, HLS Fellow). He received the French Ordre National du Mérite and the French Légion d’Honneur.