He has been Executive Vice President of Prysiam Group's Telecom Division since May 2013. After graduating as a Mechanical Engineer in Lyon (France) in 1989, he began his career as a Research Engineer for Renault Formula 1 development. He moved to the cable industry in 1991 with Alcatel Cable. Over the past 20 years he has held a number of senior operations and general management positions within the cable industry for Alcatel and Draka, sequentially in the Energy, Copper Telecom and Optical Fiber sectors. He was leading the global Optical Fiber Business Unit of Draka at the time of the Prysmian merger, and since then he held the same responsibility for Prysmian Group until he was appointed Executive VP Telecom Division. Philippe Vanhille chairs the Europacable Digital Team.