Jean pascal tricoire biography

French entrepreneur (born 1963)

Jean-Pascal Tricoire (born 1963) is a French business executive. Tricoire is the chairman of Schneider Electric, and served as the company's CEO from 2006 to 2023.^[1]

Career

Early career

After working at Alcatel, Schlumberger and Saint-Gobain between 1985 and 1986, Tricoire joined Merlin Gerin in 1986.^[2] In 1992, Merlin Gerin was acquired by Schneider Electric.^[3]

From 1988 to 1999, Tricoire developed the company's activity abroad, working in Italy for five years (1989-1994).

Then, he worked in China for other five years (1994-1999) before managing operations in South Africa.^[4]

He then served in corporate functions as Head of Schneider Electric's Global Strategic Accounts and of the Schneider 2000+ program. From January 2002 to the end of 2003, he became Executive Vice President of the International Division, covering the company's business outside of North America and Europ Biography of Jean-Pascal Tricoire - The Official Board WILU