Jacques Bonifay
Jacques Bonifay is President and Co-Founder of Transatel, established in 2000.[119]
Since 2012, he has also served as President of MVNO Europe,[120] an association bringing together leading European Mobile Virtual Network Operators. In this role, he oversees lobbying initiatives with the European Parliament, the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect).[121]
In 2009, Bonifay was elected President of Alternative Télécom[122] (formerly Alternative Mobile). He currently serves as Vice-President responsible for the Mobile Division.[123] In this capacity, he represents the interests of alternative operators before the French Government, Parliament, ARCEP, and the Competition Authority.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an engineering degree from ENSERG/INPG in Grenoble, France. He began his career at the Matra Group (now Airbus) as an engineer and later as Sales Manager for space equipment, before joining McKinsey & Company as a Senior Consultant. He subsequently led the Strategy & Business Development activities of the Professional & Consumer division at Alcatel.
In 2000, Bonifay co-founded Transatel with Bertrand Salomon.[124] Between 2000 and 2007, they carried out several capital increases, as well as multiple share buyback operations between 2012 and 2016. In 2019, Bonifay and Salomon completed the sale of Transatel to the Japanese group NTT.[125]
