Chief Operating Officer of Saint-Gobain
Director since: 2020
Current appointment ends: SGM 2024
Number of VINCI shares held: 2,000 at 31/12/2023
Age: 55
Director considered independent by the Board of Directors.
Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2023
Chief Executive Officer and Director of Saint-Gobain
Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
None
In unlisted companies or other structures
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2023
- Director of Saint-Gobain Corporation
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Saint-Gobain Initiatives Foundation
- Sole Director of SGPM Recherches
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of ProQuartet-CEMC
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CertainTeed LLC
- Chief Executive Officer of Saint-Gobain Northern Europe, CTKC Corporation
- Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Saint-Gobain Isover, Saint-Gobain PAM
- President of Saint-Gobain’s Construction Products Sector
- Director of Saint-Gobain (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Background
Benoit Bazin is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts ParisTech, with a degree in economics from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. He also holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career with the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance in 1995 as rapporteur to the Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring, before moving to the Treasury Department, where he was responsible for French government investments in the aeronautics, electronics and defence industries.#
Mr Bazin joined Saint-Gobain in 1999 as Corporate Planning Director for the Abrasives business, before being named Vice-President, Corporate Planning in September of the following year. In 2002, he was appointed President of the North America and Worldwide Bonded Abrasives divisions of the Abrasives business. He was named Chief Financial Officer of Saint-Gobain in 2005.#
From 2009 until the end of 2015, Mr Bazin was President of Saint-Gobain’s Building Distribution Sector and in 2010 he was named to the post of Senior Vice-President. From 2016 until the end of 2018, he served as President of the Construction Products Sector. He also served in 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of CertainTeed Corporation in the United States. Mr Bazin was appointed Chief Operating Officer of SaintGobain on 1 January 2019, before being named Chief Executive Officer on 1 July 2021.