Jean-Marc Guyot has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Elengy and Chairman of Fosmax LNG, as of April 26, 2013. He is succeeding Thierry Trouvé, who has held these positions since 2008, and who has been appointed as CEO of GRTgaz.
Born in 1954 and graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Jean-Marc Guyot has spent his entire career in the energy field, mainly in the area of gas infrastructures, as well as power generation and energy services.
After having joined the Production & transmission division of Gaz de France in 1979, he moved to National Dispatching in 1984, where he was in charge of operating the LNG chain* and of various major projects; in 1995, he took responsibility of major projects engineering at the National Equipement center.
In 1998, he was seconded to a subsidiary based in Montreal, in charge of developing CHP projects using natural gas in North America and Mexico. His return to France led him to Cofathec, Gaz de France’s energy services subsidiary, where he was in particular Executive secretary to the Chairman and CEO. He returned to gas infrastructure in 2004, as Head of the gas distribution in Paris. From 2008, he was deputy CEO of Storengy, in charge of the industrial area and, more specifically these past months, of developing underground gas storage activities in China.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, April 29, 2013; Image: Fosmax LNG