Yves Meignié appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Energy business line

19 December 2011 - Appointments

Yves Meignié has been appointed Managing Director of the Cegelec GSS division and Chief Operating Officer of the Energy business line. He was previously Deputy Managing Director of the Energy business line and Managing Director of the VINCI Energies & Cegelec International division. Following his new appointment, he becomes a member of the VINCI Executive Committee.

Mr Meignié, born in 1956 and a graduate of the ENSEGP – INP Grenoble engineering school, began his career at Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG), where he held a number of operating positions, notably in Asia and South America, and subsequently became Chairman of CGG Marine.


He joined VINCI Energies in 2000 as GTIE Northern Europe Development Director. In 2001, he was named Deputy Managing Director and in early 2002 Managing Director of the VINCI Energies International division. In 2005, he became Deputy Managing Director of VINCI Energies and joined the VINCI Management and Coordination Committee.

His responsibilities were broadened in 2006 to include supervision of the VINCI Energies Central & Eastern Europe division, the chairmanship of the AXIANS brand, and in 2009 supervision of the Ile-de France and Fire Safety, France divisions. In 2009, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of VINCI Energies. Following the arrival of Cegelec in 2010 and the creation of the Energy business line, he became Deputy Managing Director of the Energy business line and Managing Director of the VINCI Energies & Cegelec International division.

VINCI’s Energy business line grew out of the combination of VINCI Energies and Cegelec in 2010, and includes the recently created VINCI Facilities. It is one of VINCI’s five business lines and operates in 38 countries, including 20 in Europe. The Energy business line has a workforce of 59,000 people and generated revenue of 7.1 billion euros in 2010. Thanks to its dense network of 1,500 companies, VINCI’s Energy business line is now among the European leaders in energy services and information technologies.

 

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