Altran

Altran Technologies, SA (Euronext: ALT) is a European consulting firm founded in 1982 in France. Altran, self dubbed the European leader in high technology and innovation consultancy, operates primarily in technology and innovation consultancy, accounting for nearly half of its turnover. Administrative and information consultancy accounts for a third of its turnover with strategy and management consulting making up the rest. Alexis Kniazeff and Hubert Martigny ex-consultants of Peat Marwick, today known as KPMG, founded Altran in 1982. At Peat Marwick, Kniazeff, a civil engineer with a master's degree in business, and Martigny developed the vision of a decentralized management, which in turn would enable the creation of independent...