EnglishThe Supervisory committee of AREVA H2Gen appointed unanimously Cyril Dufau-Sansot CEO, with effective taking office on January 1st, 2016.
Cyril Dufau-Sansot appointed as the new President of AREVA H2Gen, in place of Michel Gugenheim, CEO since 2010, who joined the Supervisory comittee.
After obtaining an engineering diploma from Polytech Marseille (specialising in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics), Cyril Dufau-Sansot began his career in 1997 as R&D Manager with Fives Pillard, a subsidiary of Fives, the industrial engineering group. He then worked as Deputy General Manager with a German subsidiary of the group before being promoted to Technical Director at Fives Pillard.
In 2011, he was appointed General Manager of Weiss France, the French biomass boiler manufacturer.
In 2012, he became General Manager of Viessmann Industrie France, a new subsidiary of the Viessmann Group, which wished to expand further in France’s industrial boiler market.
Today, Cyril Dufau-Sansot is taking over as head of of AREVA H2Gen. His aim is to continue developing the industrial components manufacturer – France’s leader in PEM electrolysis hydrogen generators – and to make it an international player.