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• Benoît Valleteau de Moulliac (1956) • Phone: +33 4 42 98 11 88 Mr Benoît Valleteau de Moulliac is graduated from Institut Français de Gestion (business school). After 11 years spent in TECHNICATOME (actually AREVA TA) he joined PRINCIPIA, a subisdery of AREVA TA in june 1992 and was appointed to the Board of Directors as Fiancial Director, then as CEO in 2000 and became Chairman in 2008. |
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• Philippe Le Buhan (1964) • Phone : +33 4 42 98 16 25 Mr Le Buhan holds since 1990 an Engineering degrees from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (specialities Hydrodynamic and Shipbuilding ). After an Engineer training period at French Institute of Petroleum (IFP), he joins in July 1990 Principia as Project Hydrodynamic Engineer. Since this date, he has been appointed at several positions like Project Manager, up to Marine Business Manager. After more than 19 Years of experience and involvement into Oil & Gas and Marine Engineering projects in various aspects ( from Top of the flare to wellhead), he has been appointed in 2008 as Director International & Business Development with a focus into offshore Engineering services development. |
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• Eric Zara (1974) • Phone : +33 4 42 98 11 84 Eric Zara joins PRINCIPIA in 2005 as quality of Accounting Manager. Graduated at Master Degrees in Accounting and Finance, he begun his career as Legal Auditor in 1998 (Deloitte – Raufast) then became Chartered Accountant and Consultant from 2000 to 2005. |
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• Michel Rochon (1964) • Phone : +33 4 42 98 16 12 Michel Rochon is initially graduated as Mechanical Engineer (ENISE) and Master degree of IT applied to Engineering from Lyon University. He developped his business and management skills in INSEAD (Young Manager Program) and in HARVARD Executive Business School (AREVA program) |
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• Hans JØrgen Riber (1964) • Phone : +33 2 40 14 50 14 Hans J. Riber holds since 1997 a PhD with Naval Architecture from Danish Technical University. He has been one of the key persons at the origin of the first guidelines and rules for design of offshore wind farms and has more than 10 years of experience within the offshore oil & gas and offshore renewable business (design, certification, construction & installation). Hans has been working with Principia on R&D projects for floating structures in shorter periods since 1998 and was appointed in 2011 at the board of directors as Director Renewable Energy Business Development. Hans Riber is also the Chief Executive Officer of the recently created subsidiary PRINCIPIA NORTH A/S (Denmark) working within the field of offshore, oil & gas and marine renewable energy systems. |
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• Jean-Michel Heurtier (1967) • Phone : +33 4 42 98 16 38 M. Heurtier holds a BSc from Ecole Centrale de Paris (ECP). Mr Heurtier held a position as Research Engineer at CERN, Geneva, from 1991 to 1993 and worked at IFP in the Applied Mechanics Division from 1993 to 2000. He joined PRINCIPIA in 2001 as a specialist in drilling and production risers design. |
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• Natacha Buannic (1972) • Phone : +33 2 40 14 50 10 Natacha Buannic holds since 1995 an Engineering degrees from ICAM de Nantes (specialities Mechanics). After 2 years as project engineer in automotive industry, she wrote a Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics and was graduated as Doctor Engineer, in year 2000, from the University and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France). She joins in September 2000 Principia as Project Structural Engineer. From 2000 until 2007, she is involved in several engineering projects in the marine sector (for the civil ship industry, the French Navy, and offshore applications). Her expertise areas are Finite Element analysis, Fatigue life assessment of steel and elastomeric components, use and development of multiscale approaches, dynamic responses, hull vibration assessment, as well as crash and impact responses in explicit dynamics. She is permanent member of a technical committee of ISSC (International Ship and Structure Committee). |