At its annual meeting earlier this week Publicis Groupe shareholders voted to add two new members to the board including Microsoft Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow Jaime Teevan (as previously reported) and Benjamin Badinter. 

Badinter is the son of Élisabeth Badinter (current vice chair of the Publicis board) and grandson of company founder Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. 

Badinter, 56, has spent most of his career at the holding company, which he joined in 1995. 

In 2002, he was appointed head of Mediavision and Jean Mineur, an agency specializing in advertising cinema.  In 2011, he was appointed Chairman Médias et Régies Europe, a Publicis specialist in outdoor, print, radio, and cinema.  

In 2016 Badinter acquired the publisher of Tennis Magazine and created an agency dedicated to tennis, Tennis Team Agency. Badinter owns the publisher while Publicis owns the agency.  

On the board, he will serve as a member of the strategic, environmental and social committee.