Peltier, who is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering schools, began his career at Freyssinet in 1995.
He first worked outside France on cable-stayed bridge projects in Hong Kong and the USA. He subsequently headed a number of projects – the Millau Bridge, the Dubai metro viaduct and the Sungai Prai viaduct in Malaysia – for the company. He became head of the major projects division in 2008 and was appointed Deputy CEO of Freyssinet in July 2012 and its CEO in April 2014.
Didier Verrouil, a graduate of the Ecole des Mines engineering school in Nancy, began his career at Schlumberger Wireline.
He joined Soletanche in 1982 and headed the tunnel subsidiary, Bessac, between 1994 and 2004. In 2005, he was appointed business development director with responsibility for the technical subsidiaries at Soletanche Bachy. He then successively became Eurofrance area director and executive vice president of the Group. He was named CEO in 2015.
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