Béatrice de Clermont-Tonnerre
Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Appointments, Remuneration, and Corporate Governance Committee
Béatrice de Clermont Tonnerre is an investor in Artificial Intelligence companies and an independent Director. She was General Manager of Public Sector at Microsoft France until early 2024. Previously, from 2019 to 2022, she was Chief Revenue Officer of the artificial intelligence company Kayrros, a technology company pioneering in the quantification of climate change. Until September 2019, she was the Director for AI Partnerships at Google. She was based at the AI Research Center in Paris, where she oversaw and engaged with large clients on Machine Learning solutions. From 2013 to 2018. she was Southern Europe Director for monetization at GOOGLE, covering France, Spain, and Italy. She was previously Senior VP of Business Development at LAGARDERE, leading mergers and acquisitions; after working for the CANAL PLUS Group from 2001 to 2005 as Head of Interactive Television and Co-Head of Programming.
Mrs. de Clermont Tonnerre started her career as a radio journalist for two years and she entered the business world as a strategy analyst at MATRA working on the space industry and defense electronics.
Béatrice de Clermont Tonnerre graduated from Institut d´Etudes Politiques (IEP) Paris (BA in Political Sciences and Economy) and obtained her MBA degree from ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales).
Béatrice de Clermont Tonnerre also served on the Board of Société Européenne de Satellites (Luxembourg) and as deputy chairperson of the Board of HURRIYET, the leading newspaper in Turkey to be publicly listed.
She currently serves as deputy chairperson of the Board at KLEPIERRE, a European specialist in Shopping Centers, listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, and sits on the Board of CCF Bank. She’s also a Board Observer of KAYRROS. She has been bestowed with the distinction of Chevalier in France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit)
Category:
Independent
First and last appointments:
- 3 June 2019
- 27 June 2023
Boards of Directors of other listed companies on which she serves (*):
- Deputy Chairperson of Klepierre
(*) Excluding: (i) holdings or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.
Boards of Directors of other non-listed companies on which she serves (*):
- Board Observer of Kayrros
- Director of CCF
- Representative of Grupo PRISA on the board of Groupe Le Monde
(*) Excluding: (i) holding or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.
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