(CercleFinance.com) – Vallourec announces the appointment of Pierre d’Archemont as Director of South America, succeeding Alexandre Lyra. He will take office on July 14 and join the seamless tube maker’s executive committee.
‘Pierre will be responsible for accelerating the transfer of our European activities to our Brazilian factories while accelerating our development in Brazil’, explains CEO Philippe Guillemot, who also points to his experience of the region and the automotive sector.
After taking over the general management of Brazil and Argentina at Plastic Omnium in 2011, Pierre d’Archemont held, from 2014, the position of regional VP Brazil and Argentina in charge of Visteon’s operational and financial turnaround.