Maude Portigliatti

Since July 1, 2021, Maude Portigliatti has been a member of the Michelin group’s Executive Committee and Executive Vice President of Michelin’s High-Tech Materials businesses, with the mission of driving the change towards high-value new domains. She oversees sealing and belting solutions, the engineered polymers segment, as well as three joint ventures: Symbio (fuel cells), AddUp (metal 3D printing) and Solesis (materials for healthcare).

Starting in 2017, while based in South Carolina in the United States, she took the position of Innovation Deployment Programs Director, serving key customers in the Automotive Original Equipment Business Line.

Since joining Michelin in 2000, Maude Portigliatti has benefited from more than 15 years’ experience in upstream and downstream R&D, over a wide technological scope, and managing global teams across multiple time zones. She was appointed Scientific Director in 2013, with the particular responsibility of developing partnership innovation within the group. She also headed the Advanced Research department where she was in charge of developing Michelin innovations for the tire and High-Tech Materials segments.

Maude Portigliatti is a graduate of INSA Lyon engineering school, where she majored in materials physics. She also holds a research Master’s degree in materials science and a PhD in polymer physics.