Sophie Desormière
Sophie Desormiére has served as a director of the Company since 2012. Ms. Desormière is the Chief Growth Officer of Aliaxis Group SA/NV, a global leader in advanced piping solutions for water and energy.
As Chief Growth Officer, Ms. Desormière is responsible for product strategy, business strategy and models for accelerating growth and achieving sustainable performance, and marketing, all in support of Aliaxis’ Growth with Purpose strategy. Previously in 2022, she was Chief Executive Officer of NAVYA, an autonomous mobility systems company. Prior to joining NAVYA, Ms. Desormière served as the Chief Executive Officer of AALPS Capital, a private equity management company based in France.
Immediately prior to joining AALPS Capital in 2018, Ms. Desormiére was General Manager Marketing and Sales and Senior Executive Vice-President at Solvay, a Belgium-based developer of specialty chemicals starting in 2010. Previously, Ms. Desormiére spent 17 years in increasingly responsible positions at Valeo, an independent industrial group focused on the design, production and sale of components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, including Research & Development Product Line Director, Branch Marketing Innovation Director, Group Product Marketing Director and Comfort Enhancement Domain Director. Ms. Desormière is a member of the Board of Somfy S.A., which was publicly traded prior to becoming a private company in 2022.
Ms. Desormiére is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, the Institut de Formation du Caoutchouc and the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.