Marc MONTAUDON
Chief Executive Officer - Safran Ceramics, Le Haillan, France
Title of his plenary lecture:
Ceramic Matric Composites at Safran
Bio:
Born in 1965 in France Marc Montaudon has had high level engineering courses and is graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris.
In 1988 he entered Société Européenne de Propulsion, a subsidiary of Safran Group, where he had different appointments:
- Head of carbon-carbon and ceramics composite materials laboratory (1988-1994)
- Program Director for the development of solid rocket motors (1995-2001)
- Vice President, General Manager of Production (2002-2008)
- Vice President, General Manager for Aeronautics & Composites (2009-2016)
- Chief Operating Officer of Safran Ceramics, a subsidiary of Safran Group focused on advanced ceramics, and Chief Executive Officer of Structil, a manufacturer of high-performance composite materials based on carbon fiber (2016-2018).
Since april 2018, he is CEO of Safran Ceramics.
Besides, he is a director of Advanced Fibers K.K., a Japanese joint venture of Nippon Carbon K.K., GE Aviation and Safran and a Board member of the Laboratoire des Composites Thermostructuraux, a French National Center for Scientific Research laboratory, of the Centre de Transfert Technologique des Céramiques and of the Pôle Européen de la Céramique.