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Appointed as CEO and Chairman of Infogrames on April 6, 2007 as the replacement for flamboyant founder Bruno Bonnell, Patrick Leleu resigned on February 1st 2008.
After beginning his career in the Construction division of Bouygues Group, Leleu became the first CEO of Bouygues Telecom when the company was set up at the end of 1994. From 1994 to 2001, he led the third mobile operator in France from its launch to financial stability, with 5 million customers.
In November 2001, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of the French cable network operator, Noos. Noos operated in the broadband Internet and pay television market, and when the company was bought out in July 2004 by cable operator, Liberty Global, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of both Noos and UPC France, a position that he left in February 2005.
During 2005 Patrick Leleu helped the founders of Erenis, a company operating in the residential fiber optic networks market in Paris, to strengthen its finances with a view to extending the geographical coverage of its 100 Mbps services (available from 2006 onwards) in Paris and the Ile de France region to more than 1 million homes and small businesses between now and 2010. Leleu has a degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and an MBA from HEC Business School, also in Paris.
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