Grégoire Poux-Guillaume

Grégoire (Greg) Poux-Guillaume is CEO of AkzoNobel, a leading coatings company (headquartered in Amsterdam) that is active in more than 150 countries and earned revenues of more than 10 billion Euros with over 35,200 employees, and is one of the most renowned and internationally experienced executives in Europe.

Prior to becoming CEO of AkzoNobel, Mr. Poux-Gauillaume was CEO of Sulzer, a Swiss industrial company with more than 13,000 employees. Before that, he was CEO of GE Grid Solutions (fmr. Alstom Grid) and Senior Managing Director of CVC Capital Partners, a leading Private Equity firm, after having workd in the technology venture capital area of Softbank and as a consultant at McKinsey. Mr. Poux-Guillaume has worked and lived in England, France, Myanmar, Scotland, Switzerland, and the US and started his career at Total.

Mr. Poux-Guillaume obtained a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School.