French telcoms company Orange appoints Alstom's Martinez as new CFO

PARIS (Reuters) - Orange, France's biggest telecoms company, said it would appoint Alstom Chief Financial Officer Laurent Martinez as its new CFO from Sept. 1.

Jean-Michel Thibaud, Orange's Deputy CFO, will act as interim manager during this transition period, the company said.

Martinez has been Alstom's CFO since July 2018 after having spent a significant part of his career at Airbus, where he had held the post of finance director.

(Reporting by GV De Clercq; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)