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SENIOR EDITOR NICK FRANCIS

DEPUTY EDITOR ALEC MCDONNELL

LEAD DESIGNER ANDY WOOLLACOTT

GLOBAL MEDIA DIRECTOR JODIE PARKES-ROWE MARK CAWSTON

PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID

SENIOR MARKETING LEAD GRACE MALLER

MANAGING EDITORS LUCY BUCHHOLZ TOM CHAPMAN

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MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS JAMES CALLEN

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN

CEO GLEN WHITE

“ What matters is to find our pack, not to be better, stronger, or more powerful than everyone around us.” So says this month’ s cover star, Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, Chief Executive Officer of Orange Business and a former PSG midfielder.

Her career reads like a study in refusing to be confined to what an institution expects of her: diplomacy, banking, telecoms, always the outsider finding her footing.

That same question, of who really belongs in the room, runs through this issue. We ask whether boards are equipped to judge the executives they oversee on AI, and why chief financial officers still cannot see their own cash.

We also rank the CEO networks worth joining. All this, and more, in this month’ s Business Chief.

Nick Francis

Senior Editor

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