Benoît Potier

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Benoît Potier

Benoît Potier Thierry (* 3. September 1957 in Mulhouse ) is a French industrial manager and since 2006 Chief Executive Officer ( CEO and Chairman) of the Air Liquide S.A.

Life

The son of the bank director Jean-Louis Potier and Denise, b. Mosmann, attended the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles . After graduating from school, he began studying engineering at the École centrale des arts et manufactures in Paris , from which he graduated with a diploma. Further studies at INSEAD followed later .

Potier joined the research and development department of Air Liquide as an engineer in 1981 and moved to the plant engineering department in 1985 . From 1988 he took on leading positions within the company. He became Director of Strategy and Organization in 1993, Director of Raw Materials Markets in 1994, and the following year he was appointed Vice President (Président Directeur Général) of the Plant Engineering Department. At the same time, he was assigned tasks for the operative business in Europe.

From 1997 he was Executive Vice President and from 2000 a member of the board of directors of the Air Liquide group of companies, of which he took over as chairman in May 2006. He is also a member of numerous supervisory boards.

Honors

Web links

literature

  • Who's Who in France 2003-2004. Volume 35. Éd. Jacques Lafitte, Levallois-Perret 2003, ISBN 978-2-85784-042-8 , pp. 1554-1555.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination. Légifrance, accessed April 20, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Potier, Benoît
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potier, Benoît Thierry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse , France