SOUMITRA DUTTA
Born August 27, 1963
Indian nationality
Doctorate in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Berkeley, USA
First appointed: January 19, 2015
Expiration of current term: at the Annual Shareholders Meeting held to adopt the financial statements for Fiscal 2020
Member of the Audit Committee
Number of Sodexo shares held: 400
Business address:
Sodexo
255, quai de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)
Main role: Professor of Management, Cornell University
Background
Soumitra Dutta began his career in 1985 as a research assistant at University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Between 1988 and 1990, he gained further research experience at General Electric. He then joined INSEAD, the international management school based in Fontainebleau (France), where he served as lecturer then dean of technology and e-learning.
In 1999, he set up eLab@Insead , the school’s research and analytics center focused on big data analytics for businesses, which he headed until 2012. In 2002, he was named dean of Executive Education at INSEAD. During his tenure at INSEAD, Soumitra Dutta also participated in setting up and managing three strategy consultancies specialized in new technologies and innovation, which he developed before selling them.
From 2012 to 2018, he served as dean and professor of Management at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Since 2018, he has fully devoted himself to his position of professor of management within the same university.
Other positions and corporate offices held
Companies linked to Sodexo
FRENCH COMPANIES
None
FOREIGN COMPANIES
None
Companies not linked to Sodexo
FRENCH COMPANIES
- Member of the Board of Directors: Dassault Systèmes*
FOREIGN COMPANIES
- Chairman of the Board of Directors: The Global Business School Network (GBSN) (USA)
Other positions and corporate offices held within the past five years but no longer held
- Member of the Board of Directors: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (USA) (Term ended: February 2018)
* Listed company.