Bourbon names new chief financial officer

French offshore vessel provider Bourbon has appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO).

One of Bourbon's vessels; Photo by: Petr Šmerkl; Source: Wikipedia - under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license
One of Bourbon’s vessels; Photo by: Petr Šmerkl; Source: Wikipedia – under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license

Bourbon said on Monday that Thierry Hochoa was named as the CFO, effective as of August 6, 2018.

The company added that he would report directly to Gaël Bodénès, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bourbon.

A graduate of IAE Paris, ESCP Business School and also CPA, Hochoa began his career in 1994 as an external auditor at Arthur Andersen, then Ernst & Young (EY). In 2004, he joined Technip, first as director of internal audit, then held various finance positions at group level before becoming, in 2011, corporate financial control director.

In 2013, he was appointed as the CFO of operations in Southeast Asia on the key Yamal project in Shanghai. In February 2016, he became the vice-president of finance and group controller in Paris and actively worked on the merger and integration project of Technip with American FMC Technologies.

In April 2018, Thierry Hochoa joined Bourbon as a director of the financial structuring project for the three standalone companies created in the context of the “Bourbon In Motion” strategic action plan.