Who's part of the alliance board ?

Farrokh Fotoohi, joined Lyonnaise des Eaux in 1990 as a Research and Development Engineer in the Laboratoire d’Informatique Avancée de Compiègne. In 1997, he was appointed Deputy Head of Pôle Informatique Métiers in the CIRSEE, in charge of the R&D program. In 2001, he became head of the Pôle Informatique Métiers in the CIRSEE.

On January 1st, 2009, the Pôle Informatique Métiers became Ondeo Systems, a SUEZ subsidiary. Farrokh Fotoohi was then appointed CEO of Ondeo Systems, which became in 2016 the Smart Solutions activity of SUEZ group.

Since 2015, he has been Director of Smart Metering and Smart Water Factories in Water Europe Advanced Solutions. Farrokh is a Computer Engineer (University of Technology of Compiègne, 1989) and graduate of a Master of Arts in Systems Control.

Eric has an electronic engineer diploma from the school ESME Sudria and has graduated in 1987. He worked for 16 years as a business unit director in the company "Compteurs Farnier". He arrived at SUEZ in 2009 when it was still the Lyonnaise des Eaux and worked as a Technical Manager. For 3 years he worked for Engie (GDF Suez) as an Industrial Strategy & Smart Devices Purchasing Manager. In 2015, he joined SUEZ Smart Solutions as a Strategic Project Manager.

Alain Desandre is the technical leader of the smart meters project Gazpar of GRDF, in charge of the radio equipment, the head-end & supervision information system, and the roll-out information system.

Alain has 30 years of experience as project director. He led several complex projects in transportation, telecom, industry and energy sectors, in France, the United State and South America. Before serving the AMR project of GRDF, Alain was involved in Capgemini for 13 years, as Business Developer, Skill Group and Skill Center manager for the technical computing activities of Capgemini in France. Previously, Alain worked for 10 years with various manufacturers as project leader on embedded systems.

Thilbault Stabat graduated from Polytech'Paris-UPMC in 2009. He started his career as a commercial engineer at Suez then at Ocea Smart Buidling.

In 2014, he became Chief of Connected Products at GRDF.

Arnaud Leverbe began his career in 2002 being in charge of communications at ENGIE and then at SUEZ in several departments.
He has then been Director of Products and Services Communication at SUEZ Smart & Environmental Solutions. Since 2023, he is Director of Communications SUEZ Digital Solutions.

Arnaud is a graduate of ESCP business school in marketing & communication. He also holds a post graduate diploma in public law from Rennes University, France.

Jean-Philippe Sacriste is an engineer in energy and environment from the Ecole Supérieur d'ingénieurs of Poitiers. He started his career as a PCB manufacturing manager.

From 1998 to 2002 he was a Plant manager at Sagem in Lannion then in St Etienne du Rouvray. In 2002 he became Operations Director at Sagem Communications Tunisia. Since 2007 he is Energy Deputy Director at Sagemcom.

Samuel Loyson graduated from Polytechnique in 1998 and then completed a second master in telecommunication engineering in 2000 from Télécom Paris.

He worked at Orange during 8 years in the R&D department as a Director. He then became Marketing Director of the "Connected Cars" unit at Orange Business Services.

Samuel Loyson works since 6 years at SUEZ as Head of Smart Metering and is in charge of Suez's Wize networks which counts today more than 4 millions smart meters.

Eric Rieul is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Sagemcom. He began his career as an engineer for Research and Development in the field of Defense at Sagem in 1991.

He was responsible for a Research Unit. Later, he held positions in marketing and sales within different Business Units. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Director of Network Business Unit. In 2007, he became Senior Vice-President in charge of Energy & Telecom Business Unit of Sagem Communications.

Eric Rieul graduated from Telecom Paris and from the “Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers”.

After finishing his studies at CentraleSupelec, Thierry Foix entered Gaz de France in 1995 as an engineer.

Following the company's path, he held various positions at GDF Suez and now GRDF also in the Brittany region in the west of France.

In 2019, he became Account Director and is a member of the COMEX.