After one year on a construction site in Hong Kong, Arnaud Grison began his career in 1992 at the French Ministry of Transportation, where he was in charge of road construction projects in Savoie (France). In 1997 he joined SITA (Suez group), where he held various operating positions. He joined the VINCI group in 2004 as CEO of European Flight Services (EFS), a subsidiary of VINCI Airport Services. He moved to Cofiroute (VINCI Autoroutes) in 2007, where he was in charge of operations before being appointed chief executive officer in June 2010. In 2012 he moved to VINCI Energies as CEO of VINCI Facilities, before being appointed managing director for VINCI Energies International & Systems in 2014. Since March 2019, he has been CEO of VINCI Energies. Born in 1967, Arnaud Grison is a graduate of French engineering school Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussées as well as Stanford University.

Vincent Bouffard started out his career in industrial automation. He joined GTIE (VINCI Energies) in 1996, taking the helm of a service-oriented business unit in the tertiary sector. In 2000, he was appointed Greater Paris Regional Director for Telecoms Infrastructure, then Brand Director of Graniou (Axians). He became Managing Director for the North of France in 2003, then Deputy Managing Director of VINCI Energies France in 2012. In September 2024, Vincent Bouffard was appointed General Secretary of VINCI Energies. He also serves as Chairman of Actemium.

Dr Reinhard Schlemmer trained as a computer engineer. First graduating with a Master’s degree in software engineering at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, then a PhD from Vienna University of Economics in 1996, working on integrating IT into strategic management. After his PhD he began his career as financial director at Auricon Group, an Austrian industrial group. In 1998 he became financial director at Chemapol in the Czech Republic to work on a restructuring assignment, before holding the same role at Epidauros Biotechnologie AG in Germany. In 2003 he joined VINCI Energies as its financial director in Austria before becoming the company’s financial director in Germany in 2006, then managing director for electrical, automation and IT in Germany in 2008. In 2016 he became deputy general manager of VINCI Energies Europe East, and has been general manager of VINCI Energies Europe East since March 2019.

Julio de Almeida holds a master’s degree in telecommunications from the ESME Sudria school of engineering and an MBA in management from the HEC business school. He began his career as project manager in the telecoms division of GTIE, which became VINCI Energies in 2001. He then held various roles in operational departments: business unit manager, regional director then managing director of a telecoms management division in the Greater Paris region. When FACEO was integrated into VINCI Energies, Julio de Almeida became its managing director, as well as managing director of industry at VINCI Facilities. In 2012 he took on an international role as deputy managing director of VINCI Energies Europe West and managing director of VINCI Energies ENP (Spain, Nordics and Portugal) in 2014. He has been general manager of VINCI Energies Europe West in 2019 and since 2021, he is general manager of VINCI Energies International & Systems.

Véronique Matignon is a graduate of Paris I University where she obtained a degree in law, specialising in business law and taxation. A registered barrister, she joined EY’s Paris office in 1987 as a tax lawyer and was promoted to partner in 2002. In 2004, when taking on the responsibilities of people leader in charge of talent development in Western Europe and Africa, she followed the MBA in Human Resources at Paris Dauphine University. In 2008, she left EY to join CA-CIB bank as director for global talent management. In 2011, she was recruited by VINCI Energies to take on the newly created role of International HR director and on September 1st, 2019, was appointed to the VINCI Energies’ Executive Committee as VP Human Resources.

Jos Boers studied in Groningen Electrical Engineering and started working as an Automation Software Engineer at a local installation company. He has spent most of his working life in the Factory Automation & interdisciplinary Engineering industry in the Netherlands including executing and managing international projects. Jos Boers joined Wieringa Consultants & Engineers in 1992 as Head of Software Development in charge of Automation projects and after several functions such as business development, Head of the IT department and interdisciplinary project management he became Company Director in 2000. In 2001 the company Wieringa Consultants & Engineers was acquired by VINCI Energies. Jos Boers was appointed Director of Actemium Netherlands in 2005. In 2010 he was appointed Country Managing Director and after serving in various transversal responsibilities he was appointed in 2015 as CEO of VINCI Energies Netherlands and in 2021 CEO of VINCI Energies Europe North West.

Having graduated as a civil engineer after studying in France and the United Kingdom, Eric Plumey began his career in 1992 at Montalev, which would later become a subsidiary of Entrepose in the VINCI Group.  
In 1994, he relocated to Canada for the construction of the Confederation Bridge that links Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick.  
He remained there for two years as a marine maintenance manager until returning to Lyon, France and rejoining VINCI Energies in 2001 as CEO in the West Indies.  
From 2006 to 2014, from the West Indies to Occitanie, Eric Plumey occupied various regional management posts, allowing him to become familiar with all VINCI Energies activities.  
He then took over as head of the Nord Pas de Calais division in 2014, then the Building Solutions division in northern and eastern France, along with Uxello (Fire Safety) business at national level.  
Effective 1 January 2023, Eric Plumey has been appointed Managing Director of VINCI Energies France Building Solutions & Industrie. 

After graduating from ESTP engineering school with a specialisation in mechanical and electrical engineering, Christian Glade began his career at Bouygues Energies & Services in 1990.

In 1999 he joined GTIE, now known as VINCI Energies, as a Business Unit manager. Christian held various roles related to energy and telecoms infrastructure in the French Caribbean and mainland France at VINCI Energies up until 2009.

He was then named Director of the Graniou brand, now known as Axians, that year before becoming Managing Director of the VINCI Energies France Infrastructures Télécoms divison in 2011.

Christian was named Executive Vice President of VINCI Energies France in 2014, taking charge of VINCI Facilities, the entity specialising in building maintenance. In 2016 he also took charge of engineering and works business units, managing all building solutions activities until 2022.

On 1 January 2023, Christian Glade was named Chief Executive Officer of the VINCI Energies France Infras & ICT division.