64 years old, chartered engineer, ENSGC Toulouse, PhD McGill University, AMP Harvard Michel has in-depth knowledge of all the energy sectors. Michel acted for the Elf Aquitaine group as R&D manager for the energy efficiency/renewable energy sector, as director of innovation and director of international development (Europe, Germany, Elf Antargaz).
From 1984 to 1991, he was President and CEO of Inovelf (Europe) and Elf Technologies Inc. (in the USA, where he worked), venture capital subsidiaries of the Elf Aquitaine group which, under his leadership, made 36 investments in the energy, fine chemistry, environment-safety and biotechnology sectors with an outstanding financial performance (overall gross IRR close to 20%) and the setting up of several partnerships between holding companies and the group’s operational branches (including Sanofi).
