Boucas CEO at Sodiaal Group
The Sodiaal Group has appointed Jorge Boucas as chief executive officer of the Sodiaal Group. He will take up his duties as of 1 February 2017.
Boucas, 44, a graduate of the Polytechnique and ENSTA, was previously chairman of the management board of the family group Roullier. He began his career as a strategy consultant for industrial groups such as McKinsey, before becoming industrial director of the Roullier Group in 2004. Between 2006 and 2012, he founded and developed NextEnergies, which in six years became a leading French maker of biomass boilers for industry. He sold it in 2012 to the Roullier Group, present in 116 countries, and where he became chairman in January 2015.
Boucas will carry out a Sodiaal’s new strategic project to take the group to a new stage of its development. In five years, Sodiaal has changed its dimension, notably with the takeover of Entremont. It has become a European actor present in all milk professions, and has managed to preserve its fundamentals at the heart of the crisis. It is now entering a new stage in its development, according to the company
Damien Lacombe, president of Sodiaal, says, “As a collection leader in France and the third largest dairy cooperative in Europe, we have a major role to play, both among our French consumers and on the world market for milk and dairy products. That is why I am very pleased to welcome Jorge Boucas, who, in Sodiaal’s senior management, will aim to make a significant contribution to our cooperative’s performance in order to defend the interests of our 20,000 producers who produce a milk of recognized quality all over the world. I am convinced that Jorge will be able to forcefully and enthusiastically take our 9,000 employees to this crucial stage of Sodiaal’s development.”
