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SENIOR EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS AT BOUYGUES IMMOBILIER, COLAS AND BOUYGUES TELECOM - Seite 2
At its meeting of 16 February 2021, the Board of Directors of Colas decided to combine the functions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and appoint Frédéric Gardès, the
current CEO, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Colas. Olivier Roussat has therefore resigned from office as Chairman of Colas.
Frédéric Gardès, 49, is a graduate of École Centrale de Paris and the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm. He began his career in 1994 in the Bouygues group as a Construction Engineer at Bouygues Offshore. From 2002 to 2011, he continued to pave his way at Saipem in management positions for major international projects. In 2011, he joined Colas as Director of GTOI, a Colas Reunion Island subsidiary. He then took the lead of the Indian Ocean Regional Division in 2013, and was tapped to become Deputy General Manager Northern Europe and Middle East in 2015. He was then appointed International Managing Director in March 2018. He was appointed CEO of Colas in May 2019. Frédéric Gardès joins the Bouygues Group Management Committee.
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Bouygues is a diversified services group operating in over 80 countries with 129,000 employees all working to make life better every day. Its business activities in construction (Bouygues
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Bouygues Immobilier, Colas), media (TF1) and telecoms (Bouygues Telecom) are able to drive growth since they all satisfy constantly changing and essential needs.
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