Independent Non-Executive Board Director of Infosys, Safran S.A., Accor S.A., Randstad N.V. and Oddo BHF S.C.A. and Senior Advisor at Warburg Pincus
Ms. Helene Auriol Potier is currently senior advisor at Warburg Pincus on Digital Technologies and serves as independent non-executive director on the boards of Safran S.A. (CAC40), Accor S.A. (SBF120), Infosys (NASDAQ-100), Randstad N.V. (AEX25) and
Oddo BHF S.C.A. She chairs Accor board’s ESG committee and Oddo BHF board’s compensation committee. Helene is also ESG Co-Chair and board member at Institut Français des Administrateurs, IFA, the French association of corporate directors.
Helene built her career in digital technologies and in telecommunications industry. Her career has been extensively international, in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
She started her career in New York in telecommunications in 1986. In 1990, Helene joined the Canadian mobile technology company Nortel Networks Corporation where she spent 15 years and held different senior leadership positions among which Vice President Mobile Division Worldwide and Vice President Services & Operations EMEA.
In 2005, Helene joined Dell Inc. She was the CEO Africa, Mediterranean and CEE.
Then she joined Microsoft Corporation in 2008. During her 10 years tenure at Microsoft she served in various senior leadership capacities including CEO Microsoft Singapore & Southeast Asia and, Managing Director Artificial Intelligence.
In November 2018 till December 2020, she was Executive Vice-President in charge of International Business B2B for Orange. Helene does occasional speaking on Digital transformation, Corporate Governance and ESG.
She served as independent director on the board of Mimecast Limited (S&P400) until May 2022, Ispen S.A.(SBF120) until May 2018 and Faiveley Transport S.A. (SBF120) until November 2016.
Helene received a Master of Science in Engineering from Telecom Paris and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
