Breton Says Atos’s Problems Emerged After He Quit to Join EU
- Breton was Atos’s CEO for decade before joining EU bureaucracy
- Sprawling Atos empire grapples with debt, share price decline
Thierry Breton
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Thierry Breton has rejected any responsibility for the troubles at embattled Atos SE, the French IT company he ran for 10 years before becoming a European Union commissioner.
“I have no responsibility, zero,” Breton told members of the financial press association in Paris on Friday, adding that he left the company with no debt and in a good position to benefit from the rise of the cloud industry.