Philippe Salle

Chairman and Chief Executive

Philippe Salle is Chairman and Chief Executive of the Altran group since June 2011.

He began his career at Total in Indonesia before joining Accenture in 1990. He moved to McKinsey in 1995, where he was promoted to Associate Partner in 1998. He then joined the Vedior group in 1999 (today Randstad, a company listed on Euronext Amsterdam). He became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vedior France in 2002, then President of the Southern Europe zone in 2006 (France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland). He held this position until 2007, when he joined the Geoservices group, a technological company in the oil sector operating in 52 countries with nearly 7,000 employees, first as Managing Director then as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer up to March 2011.

Philippe Salle is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Paris and obtained an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (Chicago, USA).