Orange Business Services, the Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, has announced the appointment of Giorgio Heiman as vice president of Africa, effective this month. Giorgio will share his time between Geneva and Johannesburg and takes over the leadership of the business in Africa from Jean-Luc Lasnier, who is retiring.

Giorgio brings significant consulting expertise and experiences in harnessing technology to deliver innovative business solutions, as well as leadership and management of multicultural and geographically dispersed teams.

He joined the Orange Group in 2004 after holding senior management and consulting roles within the Telecommunications and Air Transport industries, including SITA, AT&T, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Previously he held a management position at CERN, the European research organsation whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory.

Giorgio graduated with Honors from the Department of Experimental Physics, University of Bologna, Italy, and has co-authored more than fifteen publications in scientific journals.