Pierre Bastid

Pierre Bastid has served as a member of Cellectis’ Board of Directors since 2011. Mr. Bastid has 25 years of experience in turning around, developing, and running technology businesses in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. In particular, he initiated and completed the most successful European management buy out of the last 15 years: he bought the Power Conversion Division of French Engineering Alstom for $100M in 2005 and sold it to General Electric in 2011 for $3B.

In addition to his involvement with Cellectis, Mr. Bastid is currently a large shareholder, serving on the Board for Pharnext (another very innovative biotech company), Hougou (his own investment company), ZAKA, and GRID (his own Paris based and New-York based real estate companies), Shango (his own Private Equity company), EVOK (his own hotel group), Nepteam (a shipbuilding company). Mr. Bastid also advises a number of Investment and Private Equity firms. Pierre is a trustee of Juilliard School of Music and other non-profit organizations based in the U.S.