Mireille Helou

Chief Executive Officer at Orange Silicon Valley

Speaker

Mireille Helou is an accomplished chief executive with a globe-spanning history of work in the telecommunications industry. Mireille joined Orange Silicon Valley (OSV) in 2019 as Chief Executive Officer. As CEO of OSV in San Francisco, Mireille leads a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, sociologists, economists, and designers, who engage with the local Silicon Valley ecosystem.

Mireille holds an engineering degree from the American University of Beirut and has worked in many positions during her 18 years at Orange Group, including Chief Business Market Officer of Orange Telkom Kenya from 2013-2016, and more recently CEO of Orange Réunion Mayotte where she led a team of nearly 1,000 employees from 2016-2019, deploying high-speed fiber in these territories with cutting-edge technologies. Her areas of expertise include many domains, such as sales, procurement, and digital transformation, most notably in Africa and Middle East. Prior to joining Orange, Mireille worked in sales and marketing for more than nine years and has always made customer experience a top priority.