French LNG player and power utility Engie appointed Shankar Krishnamoorthy as executive vice president in charge of the five Métiers, as well as its unit Tractebel and the strategy division.
In addition, Krishnamoorthy will supervise Engie Solar and joins the group’s executive committee, the company said in a statement on Monday.
Krishnamoorthy joined the group in 1997 and since 2002 he served as the chief business developer for Asia and Africa, before becoming in 2007 executive vice president and later CEO for the Middle East and Africa.
In 2014, he was named executive vice president for business development at the group’s international energy branch and moved to London. Since January 2016, he has been the managing director of the Métier Centralized Generation.
With the appointment of Krishnamoorthy, Engie named Didier Holleaux, executive vice-president and member of the group executive committee, as supervisor of the Elengy, GRDF, GRTgaz, Storengy, China, Asia-Pacific and GTT business units, succeeding Sandra Lagumina who will leave the group on January 31, 2017.
Didier Holleaux will continue supervising the strategic sourcing and supply, the industrial projects oversight and support, and nuclear development divisions.
With 23 years of experience within the group, Holleaux began his career in the French Civil Service before joining Gaz de France in 1993, where he held various positions focused on management of gas transport and storage and energy distribution activities, as well as international development. Until 2015, he headed the exploration & production business unit before being appointed executive vice-president and member of the executive committee of Engie.
Effective January 9, 2017, alongside Engie’s CEO Isabelle Kocher, the other members of the group executive committee are the following vice presidents: Paulo Almirante, Franck Brue, Ana Busto, Pierre Chareyre,Pierre Deheunynck, Judith Hartmann, Didier Holleaux, Shankar Krishnamoorth, Yves Le Gélard, Thierry Lepercq and Pierre Mongin.