Vincent TERRASSON
ParisPartner
Ecole Polytechnique, Sup’Aéro (National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space)
Vincent started his career as a R&D engineer in the armament industry. He then joined Veolia Environment where he was responsible for various profit centres in France, and later became Managing Director of the Hungarian subsidiary, recently acquired and to be integrated within the group.
He then joined Egis, an engineering company, first as CEO of the Road Operation subsidiary, then moved on to engineering activities as Deputy CEO of Egis International in charge of Europe and CIS as well as the Middle East and India.
Through these different positions as CEO or as Chairman and Board Member of subsidiaries in France or abroad, he became familiar with intercultural interactions, international partnerships, governance organisation, and strategy definition and implementation in various situations.
At Exec Avenue, a Eurosearch Company, Vincent specialises in
– industry, B2B and B2Government services (including utilities and infrastructure), private equity investments
– executive search, mentoring, assessment and organisation of corporate management and governance.
Cas clients
Mandated by the Compensation and Appointments Committee, carry out a management review to accelerate growth of an international company
A family business with 500 employees, specializing in financial services, leader in its market, based in France
with a subsidiary in Spain.
Following the sudden death of the CEO, the Sales Director – a family member – took the helm in the interim period, but did not have the experience or the motivation to continue the role in the long term.
An investment fund was facing the liquidation of one of its portfolio investments via an LBO