Our Board of Directors

Joseph Rinaldi is the Managing Partner of Fennecourt Partners, an investment management and consulting firm. He is a retired partner in the international law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he advised companies, financial institutions and boards of directors on corporate governance issues, public and private mergers and acquisitions, financing and capital markets transactions, corporate law and securities laws, with a particular focus on international and cross border matters.

From 2002 to 2007, he was the senior partner in the Paris office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, after joining in 1984 and becoming a partner in 1990.

Joseph Rinaldi holds degrees in both economics and law from the University of Sydney as well as a master’s degree in law from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Arnaud Pieton is Chief Executive Officer of Technip Energies and an executive director of the Board. He served as President of TechnipFMC’s Subsea business segment from 2018 to 2020. From 2017 to 2018, Arnaud Pieton held the position of Executive Vice President People & Culture of TechnipFMC. From 2004 to 2017, Arnaud Pieton served in a number of leadership positions at Technip, including as President Asia Pacific Region covering subsea and onshore/offshore operations and other subsea assignments in Paris, Houston and Kuala Lumpur. Prior to joining Technip in 2004, he held several positions at Serimax, part of Vallourec Group.

Arnaud Pieton holds a master’s degree in material science & welding from Polytech Nantes and attended executive education programs at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also serves as President of the France-Qatar council for the French Business Confederation (MEDEF).

Arnaud Caudoux is Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Bpifrance, a French state-owned investment bank, in charge of the Finance, Risk Management, IT, and Guarantee business line. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Board of Bpifrance from 2013 to 2015. He also served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of OSEO from 2008 to 2012 and Managing Director of OSEO Garantie (formerly Sofaris) from 2004 to 2008. From 2003 to 2004, he was Chief Credit Risk and IT Officer of Sofaris.

Arnaud Caudoux began his career in 1997 at Accenture as a consultant before joining A.T. Kearney in 2001.

He graduated from École Polytechnique and holds a degree in economics from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Colette Cohen is a Non-Executive Director with Technip Energies, BlueNord, DeepOcean and Forth Ports. Until 2023, she was Chief Executive Officer for the Net-Zero Technology Centre, an organization committed to the development and deployment of technology to accelerate the transition to an affordable net zero future. She has worked in the industry for over 25 years, having held senior positions within industry leaders such as BP, ConocoPhillips and Centrica E&P, both in the UK and internationally.

Colette Cohen is a Commissioner for the Just Transition Commission for Scotland and a member of the Technology Leadership Board for the UK Government. She is an ambassador for Powerful Women.

Colette Cohen holds a degree in pure & applied chemistry from Queen’s University Belfast, as well as a master’s in project management & economics from CERAM (France) and an honorary PhD from both Aberdeen University and Strathclyde University. In 2020, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, for promoting collaboration between the Oil and Gas Industry and Government.

Stephanie Cox served as the Executive President, Operations Business Unit for Wood plc, in Houston, Texas from 2020 to 2022 and as CEO Asset Solutions – Americas, from 2019 to 2020.

Prior to that she held multiple leadership roles with Schlumberger from 1991 to 2019, including most recently President, North America Land Drilling from 2018 to 2019, Chief Human Resources Officer in Houston, TX, from 2017 to 2018 and in Paris, France, from 2009 to 2014. She was also President, North America from 2016 to 2017, and President, Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 2014 to 2016.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University in supply chain, materials logistics management. She is also a Certified Corporate Director by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Simon Eyers is a member of the Supervisory Board of Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG and a Senior Advisor to Next Energy Capital, a leading European investor in renewable energy. Until January 2022, Simon Eyers served as Chairman of Evrythng, a leading provider of cloud-based traceability data services to the consumer products industry, and as a Director of Trident Energy. He served as Managing Director of Warburg Pincus International from 2012 to 2018 focusing on energy investments, and as a Senior Advisor until the end of 2020 upon retirement from his full-time role. He was a founding partner of 4D Global Energy Advisors, a private equity firm based in Paris specializing in the energy sector, serving from 2002 to 2012.

Simon Eyers previously held executive leadership roles in various technology ventures prior to which he worked for 13 years in energy investment banking.

He holds a BSc. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Edinburgh.

Maëlle Gavet is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Techstars, a top pre-seed investor worldwide. She joined Boston Consulting Group in 2003. In 2010, she joined Ozon.ru as Sales and Marketing Director, becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2011. In 2015, she was appointed Executive Vice-President of Global Operations for Priceline Group, and then Chief Executive Officer of Compass between 2017 and 2019.

Maëlle Gavet is a graduate of La Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and IEP Paris.

Alison Goligher was the Executive Chair of Silixa, a private equity-backed Distributed Fibre Optic company working in the energy sector, from 2016 to 2023. From 2006 to 2015, Alison Goligher held various executive leadership roles at Royal Dutch Shell, most recently serving as Executive Vice President Unconventionals, Upstream International in The Netherlands. She began her career at Schlumberger as a wireline field engineer. She spent 17 years at Schlumberger working internationally, and progressing into more senior, global leadership positions in operations and technology, eventually becoming its Vice President of Production Management, Integrated Project Management.

Alison Goligher graduated from Edinburgh University with BSc. in mathematical physics and also holds a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

In 2005, she was recognized as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Oil and Gas industry.

Matthieu Malige is Chief Financial Officer of the Carrefour group, in charge of Finance, M&A, Banking and Insurance services and Non-Trade Procurement. He held various positions within the Carrefour group between 2003 and 2011, including Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Chief Financial Officer of Carrefour Belgium and Chief Financial Officer of Carrefour France. In 2011, he joined the Fnac group as Chief Financial Officer and in July 2016 following the company’s acquisition of Darty, he became Chief Financial Officer of the Fnac Darty Group. Matthieu Malige began his career in 1999 at Lazard Frères in investment banking.

He is a graduate of HEC Business School and École des Travaux Publics and holds a Master of Science in civil engineering - Earthquake structures from UCLA.

Francesco Venturini is currently a consultant for the energy sector. Until 2023, he was the Head of Enel X Global Retail, the global business line that consolidates all the customers of the Enel Group and the related portfolios of products and services under one single umbrella.

From 2017 to 2021, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Enel X, the global business line of the Enel Group. Francesco Venturini held various positions at the Enel Group. He served as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager for Enel Green Power (from 2014 to 2017), after having served as its Head of North American Area (from 2011 to 2014) and Head of Finance (from 2009 to 2011). He also served as Head of Sales Administration within Enel’s Distribution and Market Division after having served as its Head of Internal Audit. He was initially appointed as Head of Administration and Management Control at Enel S.p.A. in 1998. 

Prior to joining Enel, he served as Chief Financial Officer for several companies of the Elsag Bailey Process Automation and Hartmann & Braun Group, a former Finmeccanica (Leonardo) group company.

Francesco Venturini graduated cum laude in economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1992 and was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant. He is a London Business School alumnus and holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan Business School.