Henri Poupart-Lafarge, 40, is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology
– By Stephen Heiser –
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, Chief Financial Officer of Alstom and member of the Executive Committee, will be appointed Executive Vice President and President of the new Sector that will regroup the electricity transmission activities at the closing of the Areva T&D acquisition. In his new role, Henri Poupart-Lafarge will remain a member of the Executive Committee and will report to Patrick Kron, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alstom.
Nicolas Tissot will join the company on 17 May, 2010, as Chief Financial Officer of Alstom replacing Henri Poupart-Lafarge.. He will be a member of the Executive Committee and will report to Patrick Kron. Nicolas Tissot is currently Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GDF-Suez’s Global Gas & LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) business.
Alstom’s Executive Committee, presided by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Kron, will thus comprise Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President and President of the Power Sector; Philippe Mellier, Executive Vice President and President of the Transport Sector; Henri Poupart-Lafarge, Executive Vice President and President of the new Sector that will regroup the electricity transmission activities; Patrick Dubert, Senior Vice President Human Resources; and Nicolas Tissot, Chief Financial Officer.
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, 40, is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. He started his career in 1992 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., before joining the French Ministry of Economy and Finance in 1994 at the Treasury Department, and then as Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Finance. He joined Alstom in 1998 where he was successively Head of Investor Relations, Management Control, and in 2000, Financial Officer of the Transmission & Distribution Sector which was sold in 2004. Since then, he has been Chief Financial Officer of Alstom.
Nicolas Tissot, 43, is a graduate of HEC, Ecole Nationale d’Administration and a Finance Inspector. He started his career at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (1995-1999), and then joined Suez, where he first worked in the Finance Control Department after which he was appointed Head of Group business control (2000-2003). Then he was subsequently appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive VP Suez Energy International (2003-2005), Chief Financial Officer of Electrabel in 2005, and since 2009, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GDF-Suez’s Global Gas & LNG business.
Other appointments within the AREVA group include:
• Robert Pistre is appointed Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer.
He reports to Anne Lauvergeon.
This appointment is effective as of April 5th, 2010.
• Arnaud de Bourayne is appointed Senior Vice President, Executives Career Management.
He reports to Anne Lauvergeon.
This appointment is effective as of April 5th, 2010.
• Armand Laferrere is appointed Senior Vice President, Group’s Major Projects Offers, within AREVA’s International & Marketing Department.
He reports to Dominique Mockly, Senior Vice President, AREVA’s International & Marketing Department.
This appointment is effective as of April 1st, 2010.
• Coralie Bouscasse is appointed Reactors & Services Business Group Vice President, Legal.
She reports to Pierre Charreton, Senior Executive Vice President, Legal, and to Philippe Knoche, Senior Executive Vice President, Reactors & Services Business Group.
Robert Pistre, started out his career in 1964 in the French civil service as an advisor to the Préfêt of the Midi-Pyrénées region, before joining the Ministry of Industrial Development. From 1978 to 1989, he served as head of the Service du Conseil Général des Mines (CGM), simultaneously with his job as assistant director of the Ecole Supérieure des Mines. He joined Saint Gobain in 1989, serving first as chief operating officer in charge of Human Resources, then as advisor to the president from 1998 to 2002. In January 2005, he took over as AREVA’s management development director. Mr. Pistre is a graduate of the French grand école for engineers and member of France's elite engineering Corps des Mines.
Arnaud de Bourayne, is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité. He has spent his whole career in the nuclear power business – most with AREVA group. Much of it was focused on the front-end business, and he was for a time running the mining business in North America. He was also president of Eurodif on the enrichment side of the business. Prior to moving in 2008 to head up the new commercial entity, Arnaud was President of AREVA China and very much involved in the Taishan project through to contract signing.
Armand Laferrere, is a graduate of ENA and the Ecole Normale Supérieure ULM Lettres. He began his career at the Court of Auditors in Paris in 1995 as an auditor with the 7th chamber. He then became Senior Auditor at the National Audit Office in London before returning to the French Court of Auditors in 1998 as a Public Auditor with the 5th chamber. In 1999, he joined the Budget Department of the Ministry of Finance as Assistant Manager for internal affairs and local authorities. In 2001, he was appointed Manager for National Education, Youth and Sports. In 2002, he joined the Ministry of the Interior, Internal Security and Local Liberties as Advisor to the Minister in charge of the budget and administrative reforms. He joined the AREVA group in 2004 as head of Strategy and Audit at AREVA NP and as Deputy Vice President, Strategy for the AREVA group. In 2006, he became President of AREVA Canada Inc, Toronto and then AREVA Russia in 2009.
Coralie Bouscasse, a lawyer registered with the Paris Bar Association, Coralie Bouscasse started her career in 1984 as Assistant Director of International Relations at French institute for scientific research CNRS. In 1989, she joined the Thales group as head of the legal department of the Engineering subsidiary. From 1992 to mid-2004, she held posts at the Thales group level, first in litigations and then in Mergers and Acquisitions, before becoming General Counsel and Compliance Officer, first for the group’s Air Systems division, then in December 2007 for the Land & Joint division. Ms. Bouscasse holds a postgraduate DESS degree in Common Market Law and a postgraduate DEA degree in Law of International Organizations and International Economic Relations.