Catherine Cousinard, appointed Deputy Managing Director of Spie Batignolles Energie

At 49 years old, Catherine Cousinard has a professional background of more than 25 years dedicated to the management of profit centers, engineering, energies and the development of new industrial services.

A graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Mines de Nancy as a civil engineering engineer and holder of a master's degree specialized in gas engineering from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, Catherine Cousinard joined the Engie group upon completion of her studies. , taking on operational management responsibilities for structures and transformation projects for 23 years.

Catherine Cousinard participated in particular in the various technical and commercial challenges of opening the energy market within the distribution operator GRDF and the Transport operator GRTGaz.

From 2013, Catherine Cousinard joined the Services Branch of the Engie Group and was entrusted with responsibility for Facility Management activities throughout France.

Then she took charge of the various transformation projects of the Branch's activities (electrical engineering, climate control, industrial engineering and heating networks) before becoming DGA of Tertiary & Local activities for France until the departure of a large part of the staff. activities within the Bouygues Group.

In September 2021, Catherine Cousinard took over as General Manager of the company Séolis, a local energy company (manager of the electricity networks in Deux Sèvres, energy supplier, producer of renewable energies and suppliers of community services).

On January 2, 2024, Catherine Cousinard joined the Spie Batignolles group, as Deputy Managing Director of Spie Batignolles Energy.

For Catherine Cousinard: “Energy and digital transitions are formidable drivers of the transformation and development of cities, industry and territories. Consuming less energy, replacing carbon-based energies with renewable energies and electrifying uses, these are the challenges that fascinate me and which are at the heart of the Spie Batignolles Group's strategy and at the service of its customers. The experience that I have acquired in my various positions allows me today to have a clear vision of the ins and outs of all the links in the energy chain and to be able to work on the levers which are: energy performance of buildings, industries and city infrastructures (BMS and smart buildings, BACS decree, RE2020, sobriety of Public Lighting, connected infrastructures, etc.) to act on the electrification of uses and the greening of energies ( installation of charging stations, reliability of surface installations of natural gas storage, connection of networks of wind farms and solar power plants, methanization issues, etc.) and more generally to deploy carbon-free solutions to promote the reindustrialization of France. »