Jean-Philippe Puig

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Jean-Philippe Puig
Born (1961-01-18) 18 January 1961 (age 63)
Education Chimie ParisTech
OccupationCEO of Avril

Jean-Philippe Puig (born 18 January 1961) is a French businessman and general director and chief executive officer of Avril Group since 2012.

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Biography

Education

Jean-Philippe Puig graduated from Chimie ParisTech in 1983.

Career

Puig started in the aluminum industry, at the Research and Development division of Pechiney (French aluminum company).

He occupied various positions at Pechiney: mining extraction, operations management, sales and international development, in different countries. He notably was plant manager in Delphi, Greece, and responsible for international development and financial control in Sydney.

In 2003, he managed upstream activities of Pechiney.

In 2008, he was appointed Rio Tinto Alcan Group's chairman for Europe, Middle East and Africa, following the acquisition of Pechiney. [1]

Puig joined Sofiproteol in 2012 as CEO, taking the position after Philippe Tillous-Borde's retirement.

He operated a series of changes aiming at transforming a federation of small and medium businesses into an integrated food and agriculture company. Among these, he changed the governance of the company into a limited partnership with share capital ("société en commandite par actions"), an operation which allowed the distinction between the financial and industrial activities, and establish the farmers (oleaginous producers) at the heart of the governance. [2] [3]

The transformations came with a rebranding of the company: Sofiprotéol became Avril in January 2015. [4]

Jean-Philippe Puig is a vocal defender of biofuels, and especially French biodiesel (Diester). [5] [6] [7]

Following the Fipronil crisis, Jean-Philippe Puig defended the quality and food safety guarantees offered by the French production chain and called on transformers and distributors to give preference to French eggs. [8]

In 2018, Jean-Philippe Puig emphasized that the Avril Group had been one of the first industrial groups to take a position opposed to the importation of palm oil in Europe. He recalled that "we have everything we need with colza oil and sunflower oil to make biofuel in Europe" without the need to import palm oil. [9] [10]

Facing the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Jean-Philippe Puig emphasized the Group's ability to adapt to the change in consumer behavior caused by the shift from eating out to eating at home. Regardless, the biofuels business faced a substantial economic impact from the pandemic. In spite of this crisis, the Avril Group has maintained its development plan and reiterated its continued investment in vegetable proteins. [11] [12]

In April 2022, during the presentation of the April Group's annual results, Jean-Philippe Puig announced his intention to increase its French sunflower processing capacity to more than one million tons of seeds, i.e. the Group will transform more than 50% of the French sunflower agricultural production.

Other positions

Puig chairs the supervisory board of Agroinvest and CapAgro Innovation.

He is a member of "Cercle de l’industrie". [13]

Personal life

Jean-Philippe Puig plays the flute (he received the prize of the Aix-en-Provence Conservatoire), enjoys baroque music and admires Julien Gracq. He is married to a French teacher and has two children. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Jean-Philippe Puig Iron Man de Sofiprotéol, LesEchos.fr. 23 May 2012
  2. ↑ Jean-Philippe Puig: «Avril a accompli la moitié du chemin», LeFigaro.fr. 20 June 2016
  3. ↑ La mutation juridique de Sofiprotéol, LesEchos.fr. 26 January 2015
  4. ↑ Sofiproteol revamps and renames in bid for growth, Just-Food.com. 8 January 2015
  5. ↑ Avril's sectoral approach to climate change, Cop 21 Climate Change. 30 November 2015
  6. ↑ Avril targets France's higher biodiesel blending needs with new plant, Reuters Africa. 28 October 2015
  7. ↑ Biofuels are being wrongly accused, ConBio. 17 July 2013
  8. ↑ Puig, Jean-Philippe (2017). "[Point de vue] Tirons les leçons de la crise du Fipronil : finissons-en avec le dogme des prix toujours plus bas !". decision-achats (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Jean-Philippe Puig (Groupe Avril) : "Sur le plan économique, on a besoin d'un peu d'huile de palme"". Franceinfo (in French). 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  10. ↑ Hamaide, Sybille de La (6 July 2017). "France to restrict use of palm oil in biofuels: minister". Reuters. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Malgré la crise, Avril va poursuivre ses investissements dans les protéines végétales" (in French). 12 June 2020.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ↑ "Financial results for 2019: Avril confirms its recovery and is pursuing its growth to serve development of the sector". Avril. 30 April 2020. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  13. ↑ Liste des membres du Cercle de l'Industrie, Asktheeu.org. January 2015
  14. ↑ Jean-Philippe Puig Iron Man de Sofiprotéol, LesEchos.fr. 23 May 2012
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