Bruno Bonnell was born on 6 October 1958 and is a French businessman and politician who represented the 6th constituency of Rhone in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022.
13 Facts About Bruno Bonnell
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Bruno Bonnell founded this company at age 25 with Christophe Sapet and Thomas Schmider.
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Bruno Bonnell was chairman and chief creative officer of the company from 1983 to 5 April 2007.
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Bruno Bonnell was chief executive officer; a position he held from 1983 until a stockholder vote in 2003 showed a lack of confidence in his management of the company's debts.
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Bruno Bonnell stepped down as CEO of Atari in 2004 to be replaced by James Caparro, although he took up the position again on a temporary basis when Caparro resigned in June 2005.
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In 1995, Bruno Bonnell was elected president of the Syndicat des Editeurs de Logiciels de Loisirs, a French game developer association.
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Bruno Bonnell worked together with French broadcaster Canal Plus to create the television channel Game One, which was specifically aimed at a gaming audience.
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Bruno Bonnell spearheaded takeovers of many smaller development studios over the 1980s and 1990s, most notably British development house Ocean Software and Atari, as well as GT Interactive, Accolade, Gremlin Graphics and Hasbro Interactive.
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On 5 April 2007, Bruno Bonnell resigned from his positions at Atari and Infogrames.
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On 31 May 2012, Bruno Bonnell was elected as President of the EMLyon Business School Board.
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When Richard Ferrand was elected president of the National Assembly in 2018, Bruno Bonnell initially considered to run as a candidate to succeed him as chairman of the LREM parliamentary group but later endorsed Gilles Le Gendre instead.
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In June 2021, Bruno Bonnell announced that he would not stand in the 2022 elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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In July 2019, Bruno Bonnell voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada.