Thierry Breton (born 15 January 1955 in Paris) is a French businessman, a former Professor at Harvard Business School, and a former finance minister of France. He has been Vice Chairman and CEO of Groupe Bull, Chairman and CEO of Thomson-RCA (1997–2002), Chaiman and CEO of France Télécom (2002–2005). Today an Honorary Chairman of both Thomson and France Telecom, he is, since 2008, Chairman and CEO of Atos, one of the leading IT firms worldwide, with 75,000 employees in 42 countries. He was from 2005 to 2007 the French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin, Jacques Chirac being the President de la Republique.

He was born in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris. He has three children: Constance (1984), Alexandre (1985) and Severine (1988). He received a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supélec and later graduated from the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN).

Patrick P. Gelsinger is the President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC Corporation. Before joining EMC, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.

Gelsinger holds an AA degree from Lincoln Technical Institute (1979), a B.S. magna cum laude from Santa Clara University (1983), and an M.S. from Stanford University (1985). Both degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was also given an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from William Jessup University (2008).

Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979 and EMC in September, 2009.

Gelsinger began his career at Intel as a Quality and Assurance Technician working on a variety of microprocessor and chipset components. Later, he held the positions of Director of the Platform Architecture Group, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386 and i286 chip design teams. His promotion to Group Vice President in 1991 at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.