Jacques Veyrat

Jacques Veyrat worked in the Treasury Department at the French Ministry of Finance from 1989 through 1993, and then in the cabinet team of the Ministry of Equipment between 1993 and 1995. From 1995 he held various management posts in the companies of the Louis Dreyfus group, notably Chief Executive Officer of Louis-Dreyfus Armateurs SNC. In 1998, he founded LDCom, renamed Neuf Telecom in 2004 and subsequently Neuf Cegetel in 2005. He served as Chairman and CEO of Neuf Cegetel until April 2008, when a takeover bid for the company was launched on the Paris stock exchange. Jacques was then the Chairman and CEO of the Louis Dreyfus group from 2008 through 2011. Since July 2011, he has been Chairman of Impala SAS, a holding company that controls some fifteen companies. Impala is the principal shareholder of Neoen, which invests around €1 billion a year in new projects in renewable energies. Jacques is a graduate of École Polytechnique and a member of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées (a prestigious French civil service corps for engineering graduates of the École Polytechnique).