France: DCNS Announces Team Changes

DCNS Announces Team Changes

Vincent Martinot-Lagarde has been appointed to the post of director of the DCNS Lorient centre. He hands over his position as director of FREMM multi-mission frigate programmes to Anne Bianchi. Meanwhile, Pascal Le Roy is leaving the post of director of the DCNS Lorient centre. He is preparing to take over the presidency of Itaguaï Construçoes Navais in Brazil during the first half of 2013.

Vincent Martinot-Lagarde began his career at DCNS in 1994 as a naval architect of the Horizon frigates. In 1996 he continued his career within the Group by taking responsibility for the Sawari II programme (three frigates for Saudi Arabia). In 2003 he became a Defence Procurement Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington, taking charge of the development of Franco-American cooperation on naval affairs. He then returned to DCNS in 2006 as the director of a Group engineering operational directorate in Cherbourg. In 2010 he became the director of the FREMM programmes, when the frigate Aquitaine was floated out. Vincent Martinot-Lagarde is 45 years old, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and ENSTA, and has further qualifications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Defense University (NDU).

Anne Bianchi began her career in the Group in 1996 as information systems manager on the Sawari II frigates programme in Lorient. She then took wing for Cameroon in 2000 to manage deployment of the management computer system of the Chad Export Program, an energy resources development project in Chad. Three years later she returned to DCNS and the Malaysia Scorpene programme as deputy director of the Scorpène© programme. In 2004 she joined Group Engineering as head of the Malaysia Scorpene platform project. In 2009 she was appointed DCNS representative in Spain during the trials and acceptance testing phase of the second Malaysia Scorpene. She then became director of a Group engineering operational entity. Anne Bianchi, 41, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and ENSTA.

Pascal Le Roy began his career in 1987 by joining the DCNS Nantes-Indret centre, where he occupied successive positions as engineer responsible for development of propulsion system components for the SSBN Le Triomphant, project leader for the propulsion system of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and head of the propulsion systems engineering department. He then moved to the DCNS Brest centre in 1996 to manage final construction and the trials of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. In 2000 he was appointed programme director responsible for the project for six Delta frigates in Lorient then in Singapore, with transfer of technology. In 2005 Pascal Le Roy became industrial director of the DCNS Toulon centre, specialized in through-life support of French Navy ships. In 2009 he was appointed director of the DCNS Lorient centre. Pascal Le Roy, 50, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and ENSTA.

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Press Release, January 16, 2013