Serge Kampf

Serge Kampf studied law and economics and worked in sales at French computer maker Bull, where he saw that companies buying expensive computers lacked the skills to use them well.

Serge Kampf founded Sogeti in Grenoble on October 1, 1967. He built it into Europe's largest IT services group through the 1970s takeovers of CAP and Gemini Computer Systems, listed it in Paris in 1985 and led the 2000 Ernst & Young Consulting deal. He handed the CEO role to Paul Hermelin in 2002, remained chairman until 2012 and died in 2016. He was a well-known patron of French rugby.

Serge Kampf was born in 1934.