Victoire de Margerie
Victoire de Margerie (born April 6, 1963, in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French businesswoman.
She serves on several corporate boards. From 2003 to 2011, she was a professor of strategic management at Grenoble École de Management. Since 2009, she has been CEO and main shareholder of Rondol Technology, a Franco-British micro-mechanics company, and since 2015, Vice President of the World Materials Forum.[1]
Biography
Victoire de Margerie is the daughter of Pierre-Alain Jacquin de Margerie, an insurance executive, and Colette Taittinger. Her grandfather was businessman and politician Pierre Taittinger, making her part of both the Taittinger and Jacquin de Margerie families.
Her half-brother, Christophe de Margerie (1951–2014), served as Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies from 2010 to 2014.
After studying at HEC Paris (class of 1983) and Sciences Po Paris (class of 1986), she completed executive education programs at the Institut für Management und Technologie in Berlin in 1994 and the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1997. Since 2007, she holds a PhD in management science from Panthéon-Assas University.[2]
After graduating from Sciences Po, she joined Elf Atochem, a subsidiary of Elf Aquitaine (later Arkema), first as European sales network manager, then as head of mergers and acquisitions in Europe during the 1990s.[3]
In 1992, after establishing a plastic extrusion factory in Leipzig, she became its managing director. In 1995, she moved to CarnaudMetalBox (later acquired by Crown Holdings) as quality director for its European division. In 1998, she joined Rio Tinto Alcan, where she became managing director of the "Plastic Bottles" division in Chicago, a position she held until 2002.[4]
In 2003, her career shifted toward academia when she became a management professor at Grenoble École de Management. During her eight years in teaching, she published four works on management practices, governance, and business strategy.[5]
Alongside her teaching career, in 2011 she became President of Rondol Technology, a manufacturer of plastic processing machines for micro and nano applications, a position she still holds today along with five other corporate board positions. Rondol is recognized as an innovative SME in the U.S. healthcare market.[6]
Victoire de Margerie is also a lecturer at the French Institute of Directors.
She was elected as a member of the Academy of Technologies in 2019.
Awards
- Knight of the Legion of Honor, 2011
- Knight of the Order of Academic Palms[7]
Books
- 2014: Emballage Digest, "When the Crisis is an Opportunity for Innovation"
- 2011: with Jiang B., International Journal of Operations and Production Management, "How Relevant is Operations Management Research to Managerial Practice?"
- 2011: with Le Loarne S., Dunod, "The Business Leader's Toolbox"
- 2009: L’Harmattan, "Strategy and Technology: Towards a Technology-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantage"
- 2009: Management & Avenir, "Corporate Governance and Business Strategy: A State of the Art of the Top 120 Listed French Companies"
References
- ↑ What global CEOs seek at the World Materials Forum in Nancy
- ↑ Victoire de Margerie
- ↑ Arkema: appointment of Victoire de Margerie
- ↑ Victoire de Margerie, board member of Eco-Emballages
- ↑ Victoire Jacquin de Margerie
- ↑ Victoire de Margerie finds room for innovation
- ↑ Decree of December 31, 2010 on promotion and appointment