In this capacity, Philippe Martinet will join the French Executive Committee and will report to Stéphanie Ferran, Deputy CEO of the Hachette Livre group.
As part of his duties, Philippe Martinet's main missions will be to support the digital transformation of the Hachette Livre group, to ensure the alignment of the IT strategy with the Group's development strategy, in particular in the context of the ambition to transform the information systems, to guarantee the proper execution of projects and to support all the IT teams in France towards success.
Philippe Martinet will also coordinate the Group's major IT projects on an international scale.
Biographical information:
Philippe Martinet is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique Electronique Automatique - ESIEA -
(1992) and holds an International Master's degree from ESCP (2004).
He began his career in 1992 at Thomson-CSF as a design engineer, then joined the Canal + group in 1996.
Initially head of IT for the New Technologies BU, he was then appointed IT Director of Canal + Technologies.
In 2005, Philippe Martinet joined the Eutelsat Communications group as Chief Information Officer until 2011.
Since then, he has held several positions as Group Chief Information Officer in leading companies: for the
Aéroports de Paris group, then for the Le Duff group. Since 2021, he was Group Chief Information Officer at
the Heppner Group.