Sylvie Lallement has been appointed as group general counsel and member of the Eutelsat group executive committee at Eutelsat Communications. She succeeds Philippe McAllister who has left the satellite operator to pursue other professional opportunities.
Lallement joins Eutelsat Communications after six years at Altran Technologies, a European leader in innovation consulting, where she was group general counsel. Before that she was general counsel of Alcatel Business Systems.
Aged 49, and of French nationality, Sylvie Lallement graduated in law from King’s College London and Harvard Law School and holds a Masters in French and English law from the Université Paris I. She began her career in 1985 as a lawyer in the Corporate Department of the New York offices of Debevoise & Plimpton.