Portrait of Claire Plagnard

Claire joined the EXPERING team in September 2022, as Business Partner and then Sales Director France.

Industrial engineering diploma from Rennes engineering school.

I joined the Akka Technologies group to develop the energy sector as a process engineer. I was quickly promoted to business engineer, and so discovered how to support my customers throughout their engineering projects.

In the wake of the 2008 crisis, I helped redevelop activities in the hard-hit automotive sector, in particular by supporting PSA ‘s Industrial Production Systems Department in France (Rennes, IDF, Sochaux) as well as in Russia. This wonderful adventure has strengthened my ability to respond quickly to customer needs in a dynamic and demanding sector.

In the summer of 2012, I moved to the Eternal City, to Rome, where I joined the Altran Italy group and spent nearly 3 years developing the pharmaceutical and biomedical sector activities. A new country, a new culture, a new language, a new sector, a new market, a new company, in short… a very exciting new challenge. We had the opportunity to start up new partnerships with major players such as Sanofi, Menarini and Takeda.

Then, back in Paris in autumn 2015, Altran put me in charge of the Nuclear BU, which represented over 200 engineers and PhDs, and with whom we worked alongside EDF, ORANO, IRSN, CEA and Framatome on flagship projects such as Hinkley Point, the Grand Carénage and the Taishan EPR.

In 2019, I will be appointed Managing Director of Alfalians, an alliance combining technical expertise in multi-skill offerings for the nuclear sector.

It was during this last adventure that I discovered EXPERING and saw Jean-Charles Marcos again, whom I had met at Akka. I was thrilled to hear that he was offering me the chance to join him, alongside Myriam Chergui and Daniel Rodriguez, to deliver excellent expertise. I’m determined to take up this new challenge and delighted to join the Expering team for its values of hard work, honesty and human qualities, which I share. I’m looking forward to sharing these values with our experts and customers through the partnerships we’ll be developing together.