Benoît BAZIN
Senior Vice-President, Director of Building Distribution Sector
Biography
Born in December 1968, Benoît Bazin is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering school. He also holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and an Advanced degree in Economics from IEP Paris. He began his career in 1995 with the Economy and Finance Ministry, as rapporteur to the Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring, before moving to the Treasury Department where he was responsible for State investments in the aeronautics, electronics and defense industries. He joined Saint-Gobain in 1999 as Corporate Planning Director for the Abrasives Branch, going on to become Corporate Planning Director for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain in September of the following year. In 2002, he was appointed President of the North-American Abrasives business and Head of the Bonded Abrasives business unit. In May 2005, he has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Group.
Since April 1st, 2009, he has been Director of Building Distribution Sector and, since January 1st, 2010, a Senior Vice-President of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. .
