After being graduated from French Telecom Engineering School, Bastien Bianchi started his career in Banking (Société Générale), prior to joining Orange Group in 2002.

In his first assignment at Orange France, Bastien was in charge of DSL roll out for the whole Brittany Region, before taking the lead of the overall Network Planning (Access, Collection and Aggregation) for Western France. Moving from Network Design & Planning to Product in 2007, Bastien joined Orange Group Strategic Marketing, in charge of the Unified Communications Line of Business.

Bastien eventually joined Orange Belgium in 2011 and is currently Director of Core, Transport and Infrastructure. Orange Belgium has not only been one of the very first affiliates to implement Group Virtualization Strategy, but also become a front-runner in 5G SA…putting operational complexity and speed of implementation at the heart of Bastien’s preoccupations