Credit: MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP Isabelle Kocher, new CEO of Engie, in La Defense April 24, 2015
for the first time, a French became head of a CAC group 40. At 49, Tuesday, May 3, Isabelle Kocher is Executive Director of Engie . Succeeding current CEO Gérard Mestrallet, but retains a function of non-executive chairman, which was previously the Group CFO takes over the operational management. The event is rare because it becomes only the second woman to head one of the companies listed on the Paris Stock Exchange . Only the American Patricia Russo, Alcatel-Lucent in 2006, had obtained such an appointment.
With this reorganization, Engie chosen to promote one of its most loyal elements. Entry in the 2002 ex-GDF Suez group, Isabelle Kocher was able to move up in no time. Inducted in 2007 CEO of Lyonnaise des Eaux, a subsidiary of Suez, it then became CFO of the parent company in 2011 before being appointed deputy general manager in charge of operations in October 2014. Very focused on the energy transition , it was she who work for the redemption of Solairedirect, the French specialist in solar energy. “In a few years we will wear clothes that will manufacture energy,” she says elsewhere in the columns of Cross .
Isabelle Kocher is the guest of RTL and answer questions from 7:50 to Yves Calvi. Interview to follow live on RTL and video RTL.fr.
She said no Areva
“Discrete” according to Le Monde , Isabelle Kocher has also established itself as a patron before the hour at Engie , by developing the adopted last February transformation plan to back on their feet the group has accumulated 4.6 billion euros net loss in 2015. “by selecting it, you do it right. ( …) We decided there two years, transforming the group, but it had to be handmade future boss. it has therefore been designated before time “, confirms in Libération Gérard Mestrallet which would be cold, according to Les Echos with the new ruling .
the success of Isabelle Kocher, formed at the Ecole Normale Superieure, an associate physics and engineer of the mine Corps, did not wait for the last two years to be recognized at the highest summit State, where it is also passed as industry advisor in the cabinet of Lionel Jospin at Matignon (1999-2002). In 2011, his name is among the potential replacements for President Anne Lauvergeon Areva. She spends even a hearing, but has the luxury to refuse the position. Ditto when Jean-Pierre Jouyet, secretary general of the Elysee, which at the time was the director of the Deposit, offers him the Public Investment Bank (BPI). Loyalty pays.
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