According to foreign media reports, Anne-Catherine Brieux, a senior executive of Renault Group’s quality management department, has replaced Luciano Biondo, who has resigned, as Director of Industrial Operations of Ampere, the electric vehicle business unit.
Renault Group said Anne-Catherine Brieux will officially take up her new duties on August 1 and will be responsible for Ampere’s four industrial bases in northern France and oversee procurement, quality, production engineering, supply chain and information technology.
Anne-Catherine Brieux will report to Luca de Meo, CEO of Renault Group and Ampere.
, Since joining the Renault Group in 1997, Anne-Catherine Brieux has held various engineering and management positions.
He has served as a manufacturing engineer at the Cleon engine plant since 1997.
engine design director since 2006 and was responsible for the Dacia Duster project.
and since 2011, Brieux has held manufacturing management positions at the Cleon engine plant in France and Renault’s assembly plants in Valladolid and Palencia, Spain.
In 2023, she will become the Director of Quality Strategy, Supplier and Development for the Quality Department of Renault Group.
, Luciano Biondo, who has left, joined Renault Group after leaving Toyota Motor in 2020.
His first automotive-related job began in 1991 at the Sochaux factory in France at PSA Group (now Stellantis Group).
Since 1993, Luciano Biondo has assisted PSA Group in opening a van factory in Sevelnord, France.
In 2000, he joined Toyota Motor and set up a paint department at the newly built Toyota Motor Factory in his hometown of Valenciennes.
In 2013, he was appointed general manager of the Toyota Valenciennes plant.
, Twingo.
Photo source: Renault Group, Ampere will become an independent business unit of Renault Group in 2022 as Renault Group wants to balance the development and manufacturing needs of electric vehicles and internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.
Ampere has approximately 10,000 employees and four key bases, all located in northern France, including the Maubeuge assembly plant, Douai assembly plant, Cleon parts factory and Ruitz parts factory.
In the future, Renault’s electric vehicle production will also be carried out in Novo Mesto in Slovenia, which will produce the upcoming Twingo low-cost electric vehicle.
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