Tuesday June 4, the board of directors of Groupe Beneteau, one of the world leaders in nautical construction headquartered in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, in Vendée, elected Catherine Pourre as president of the Group Board of Directors. A member of the governance bodies since 2014, she is also chair of its audit committee. Louis-Claude Roux, son of Annette Roux, manager of the group for 40 years, has been reappointed as vice-chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the strategic committee.
Catherine Pourra succeeds Yves Lyon-Caen, Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2019, who joined the group in 2000, notably being an advisor to Annette Roux. “ I thank the administrators for the trust they have placed in me and would like to salute the work carried out by Yves Lyon-Caen over the last twenty years, reacts the new presidency in a press release from the Group. I am very honored to take on this role as the Beneteau Group celebrates its 140th anniversary. A family artisanal shipyard that has become a world leader, the Beneteau Group has all the assets to continue writing the history of boating. »
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A chartered accountant by trade, Catherine Pourre began her career within PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a legal and tax consulting and expertise network, of which she was a partner from 1989 to 1999, then held the position of Executive Director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, a consulting and IT services giant, from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, she joined the Unibail-Rodamco Group (commercial real estate) as deputy general manager then as a member of the Management Board. She is also a sailor: she has participated in around thirty races since 2011.
