Mersen Executive Committee

Luc Themelin is Mersen’s Chief Executive Officer since May 11, 2016. He was Chairman of the Management Board between August, 2011 and May 2016.
He joined the Mersen group in 1993 as a Research and Development engineer. He was appointed Director of the Braking Division in 1998 and Director of the High Temperatures Division in 2004. He joined the Executive Committee in 2005, while continuing to manage the Braking Division and overseeing the High Temperatures Division. On July 1, 2008, Luc Themelin was appointed as Supervisor of the Electrical Applications division and a member of the Management Board in May 2009.

Luc Themelin holds a Ph.D. in ceramic materials science.

Thomas Baumgartner is Mersen’s CFO since March 2010. He was a member of the Management Board between August 2011 and May 2016.

He began his career in 1996 with Crédit Lyonnais as a credit analyst, before taking over as relationship manager for industrial large accounts. In 1999, he joined Mersen as Head of Financing and Treasury, before moving on to become Director of Planning and Management Control. 

Thomas Baumgartner is a graduate of the IEP School (Political Sciences Institute) in Paris.

Gilles Boisseau is Executive Vice President, Electrical Power since May 2015.

He started his career in 1988 with IBM France, before joining Thomson LCD. He joined General Electric in 1993 and stayed there for 12 years, which enabled him to take on the role of CEO at GE Druck in 2003. In 2005, he was named Vice President of Global Projects at Solectron before joining Areva T&D in 2007 as Vice President of Secondary Distribution. In 2010, he joined the Schneider Electric team and took on the role of Senior VP Secondary Distribution until 2012. From 2013 to 2015, Gilles Boisseau was General Manager of Ensival Moret.

He has a degree from ENSCP (Paris National Higher School of Chemistry) and is the holder of a Master of Advanced Study in Metallurgy from Paris VI University.

Christophe Bommier is Group Vice President, Technology, Research, Innovation and Business Support.  He was a member of the Management Board between August 2011 and December 2015.

Christophe Bommier began his career with Pechiney as an R&D engineer, before joining the Mersen group in 1989 where he became Vice President, Braking. In 1998, he moved to the United States where he took charge of the North American operations of the High Temperatures division, before being appointed Vice President, High Temperatures Asia in
2006. During 2010, he was appointed as Global Vice President, High Temperatures.

Christophe Bommier is a graduate of the Paris School of Physics and Chemistry.

Thomas Farkas is Group Vice President, Strategy & Development since 2006.

After experience as a salesman of derivatives & structured products at JP Morgan in Paris from 1993-94, Thomas held the position of deputy commercial attaché at the French Embassy in South Korea. Thomas pursued his career at Ideal Loisirs/Majorette as Group Credit Manager. He was then a consultant at Mars&Co before joining the strategy consulting firm Estin&Co in 1998, where he participated in numerous strategy, M&A and operational effectiveness assignments. He was partner and Vice President between 2004 and 2006.

He is a graduate of HEC Paris.

Jean-Philippe Fournier is Group Vice President, Operational Excellence since September 2013.

Jean-Philippe started his career at Montupet in Canada. Then, he joined Schneider Electric in France in manufacturing. In 1999, Jean-Philippe is appointed plant manager at Vallourec in France, and then, in 2005, at Lear Corporation. In 2007, Jean-Philippe is appointed Group Director, Industrial and Lean at Converteam in France. In 2011, he led the operations development and the transformation program in the same company acquired by General Electric.

Jean-Philippe has a master of sciences graduate from Centrale Paris.

Eric Guajioty is Executive Vice President, Advanced Materials since Januray 2016.

Eric Guajioty started his career at Péchiney in 1989 as Process and Quality Engineer. He joined SGL Carbon in 1995 as Project Manager, Corporate Planning & Controlling. He then successively became Managing Director of SGL Technic, VP Business Line Cathodes & Furnace lining and Director of the Electrodes Business Line.
He took the position of CEO of Linde France in 2004 and of Chairman of The Linde Holdings (France, Italy, and Portugal). In 2011, he was named Head of Performance Transformation and Strategy for the Continental & Northern Europe region of The Linde Group.

Eric Guajioty is graduate from ENSEEG and holds a Doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.

Sylvie Guiganti joined Mersen in May 2017 as Group Chief Information Officer. In this capacity, she drew up a medium-term plan for the Group’s IT transformation.

Previously, Sylvie Guiganti was Chief Information Officer of several international groups in the food industry (Eurial, Senoble, Lindt) and Information Systems Program Director at Yves Saint Laurent Beauté/Gucci Group, where she led IT transformation projects.

Sylvie Guiganti holds master’s degrees in applied mathematics and applied computer science and is a graduate of ESSEC Business School.

Delphine Jacquemont joined Mersen as the Group’s Legal Vice President and Secretary of the Board of Directors in February 2020.

Prior to joining Mersen, Delphine Jacquemont spent more than 25 years in the legal department of EDF, the French leading electricity supplier, where she supported the group’s international development. She then practiced for three years as an attorney specialized in international business law.

Delphine Jacquemont is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. She also teaches in the Master 2 program at Sciences Po Law School.

Estelle Legrand is Group Vice President Human Resources since May 2010, after serving as Deputy Vice President between September 2009 and May 2010.

Estelle began her career at Alstom (Energy) in United Kingdom and France as an international business lawyer. Thereafter, she joined the Human Resources department. She then held several positions with the Human Resources department at Thomson Multimedia and L’Oréal.

Estelle Legrand is a graduate of Paris University X with a master in business law and a DJCE diploma (company law masters degree).