Alexandre Giros (Founder and Chairman, 1932-1937)
SGE
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Alexandre Giros was born in 1870 and studied at Ecole Polytechnique. In 1899, he teamed up with former Polytechnique classmate Louis Loucheur to found SGE. Alexandre Giros helped promote the use of reinforced concrete and was one of the founders of a business organisation of reinforced concrete companies in 1903.
Giros was also a leading player in the electrical power sector in the XXth century and was active in at least thirteen different companies. In all of his functions, and at SGE, he always applied bold labour policies, but without ever playing a political role, contrary to Louis Loucheur.
Named commander of the Legion of Honor in 1934, he always upheld the values of hard work and family duty. Through his daughters Denise and Madeleine, who respectively married Jean Matheron and Paul Huvelin, two future SGE leaders, the Giros family continued to control the company for a long time after Alexandre Giros's death in 1937.