Jean-Philippe Puig


Jean-Philippe Puig is a French businessman. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of Avril.

Biography

Education

Jean-Philippe Puig graduated from Chimie ParisTech in 1983.

Career

Puig started in the aluminum industry, serving at the Research and Development division of Pechiney.
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, Australia.
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.
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, an operation which allowed the distinction between the financial and industrial activities, and establish the farmers at the heart of the governance.
The transformations came with a rebranding of the company: Sofiprotéol became Avril in January 2015.
Jean-Philippe Puig is a vocal defender of biofuels, and especially French biodiesel.

Other positions

Puig chairs the supervisory board of Agroinvest and CapAgro Innovation.
He is a member of “Cercle de l’industrie”.

Personal life

Jean-Philippe Puig plays the flute, enjoys baroque music and admires Julien Gracq. He is married to a French teacher and has two children.