After Bank computers automotive computer

"You have other talents...". "Although someone who would not bet a deutsche Mark on the chances of Pierre Joudiou break into German, it is her German teacher. And yet! Some thirty years later, here it is more that never turned to the homeland of Goethe. After having worked for eight years at Gedas, armed arm of Volkswagen in it, he indeed was chosen, for forty-five years, to take the head of the French activities of B to B of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, DVB. A change of business which is not really a since it follows the acquisition of Gedas by T-Systems, reached late last year.

This Germanic tropism, the engineer of telecommunications explains evoking the charms of the management in German, based on the search for consensus and rigour, before quoting, with subdued humour which is his own, this excerpt from the "words of a confectioner", of Auguste Detoeuf: "the French and Germans share the same theories." But the difference is that the Germans apply.

Developer skills

Son of an economist and a historian, high in Neuilly I am a child of the suburbs... ". ", Pierre Joudiou even better appreciate cultural differences from one bank of the Rhine that he has worked in both countries. After the X, where his passion for horseback riding and the assiduity of the equestrian competition preparation cost him a few precious places in the classification of output, and a first experience in a subsidiary of France Telecom, it integrates in 1988 Sligos, the subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais, as Director of EDI (electronic data interchange), before taking the reins of the integration Department computer. But the concern to "internationalize" a CV so far very franco-français in 1996 led to leave the system integrators.

Ten years after his debut, he then knocks on the door of Andersen Consulting (Accenture future) which is being launched in it outsourcing, research managers already confirmed for managing large teams. The filler will be but of short duration. Because, as early as 1998, or eighteen months after the creation of Gedas France, Pierre Joudiou is approached to take the reins. After Bank computers, automotive computer. The former Executive of Sligos can then give its extent, in doing what he knows best: growing a business. Under his leadership, and a few beautiful internal operations such as the computerization of the network of dealers Volkswagen and external as the repurchase of the company's treatment of Information (STI) , Gedas France will spend about 50 employees to approximately 600, and 4 million euros of turnover to more than 60. Building on this success, Pierre Joudiou yield, in 2003, the French subsidiary commands to enter to the Steering Committee of Gedas AG as Director global automobile distribution activities.

Today bombed President of T-Systems in France, it will have to once again demonstrate his talents as developer. History to verify that another maxim of Auguste Detoeuf: "it is not at the foot of the wall that is known about the Mason, is at the top!"