He was the founder and long-standing managing director of Capgemini, the multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company.
[2] He graduated with a double degree in law and economics and began his professional career in 1960 at the Direction générale des Télécommunications in Paris after failing to gain entry to the École nationale d'administration.
[4] Under his chairmanship, in 1973 Sogeti acquired a majority stake in CAP (Centre d'analyse et de Programmation), and in 1974 took over the American company Gemini Computer Systems.
[5] In 2011, he became the centre of a controversy when Bilan magazine mistakenly included him in a list of wealthy French personalities who had recently settled in Switzerland.
[14][1] A lecture hall at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience is named after him[15] to honour his donation during the construction of the building in 2006.