Since June 2017, Olivier Huart, CEO of TDF, is also chairman of the European Wireless Infrastructure Association (EWIA). EWIA is the European trade association of independent wholesale wireless infrastructure providers.
Olivier Huart was appointed CEO of TDF on February 1st 2010. After 5 years of both operational & financial deep restructuring, he is now in charge of transforming TDF from an incumbent TV & radio broadcaster to an innovative wholesale media & telecoms infrastructures player in France around 3 core activities (broadcast, towers, fiber to the home), while at the same time improving its long-term financial performance.
Olivier was formerly the CEO of BT in France, which he brought in four years from a telco to an infrastructure services company geared at major corporate customers through organic and inorganic growth, quadrupling size and awareness at the fringe of IT & Telecoms.
Prior to BT, Olivier led Cegetel, the first full-fledged alternative carrier to France Telecom, for the five years until full merger with NeufTelecom. Within Cegetel, Olivier tripled revenues, redefined core business, repositioned activities, developed talents and returned to sound financials.
Previously, as Vice-President for Public & Regulatory Affairs of the SFR-Cegetel Group, Olivier pioneered the opening of the telecommunications market. At the very beginning of his career within France Telecom, Olivier held various management positions in both business management and marketing.
Olivier is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique Paris (MSc), Telecom Paris (MSc) and INSEAD (MBA). Aged 55, he is married and has four sons.