BUREAU VERITAS: Appointment of Jacques Pommeraud and Laurent Louail effective May 1, 2018

25.April 2018 at 17:40:00 CET

Appointment of Jacques Pommeraud and
Laurent Louail effective May 1, 2018

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, April 25, 2018 - Bureau Veritas announces the appointment, effective May 1, 2018, of:

These appointments follow the reorganization of the Commodities, Industry & Facilities division in Europe. Activities will be divided into two newly created operating groups encompassing Bureau Veritas operations in Africa as well as Government Services.

Jacques Lubetzki, Executive Vice President, currently in charge of Commodities, Industry & Facilities in Europe will leave the Group as of July 31, 2018. Until that time, Jacques Lubetzki will be appointed Special Advisor, gradually transitioning his current responsibilities in Europe to Jacques Pommeraud and Laurent Louail.

Jacques Pommeraud
Before joining Bureau Veritas, Jacques Pommeraud worked in SAP, as Senior Vice President Customer Success. He started his career in strategy consulting with McKinsey & Company in Paris and Boston.
In 2009, he joined Atos as Chief Lean Officer and held management positions of increasing responsibilities up to Chief Executive Officer of Canopy Cloud, a joint-venture between Atos, EMC2 and VMware. In 2014, he was appointed Senior Vice President & General Manager, Success Services at Salesforce Inc, based in San Francisco, USA. Jacques Pommeraud, 42, holds an
MScEng degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and an MBA from INSEAD (France).

Laurent Louail
Since September 2015, Laurent Louail has been Senior Vice President for Commodities, Industry & Facilities, Pacific Region, based in Melbourne, Australia. He joined Bureau Veritas in 1995 as Regional Industry Manager in France. He then held management positions of increasing responsibilities in France at the regional level, up to Senior Vice President of France Geographical Network in 2013. Laurent Louail, 52, received his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC, France).

(1) Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, Ukraine.



About Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has around 75,000 employees located in more than 1,400 offices and laboratories around the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its clients improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the Next 20 index.
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