Board Members
Séverine Baudic
Chief Executive Officer
With more than 25 years of experience in offshore energy projects, Séverine is Chief Executive Officer at Ekwil. Before that, she spent most of her career at SBM Offshore, joining in 2001 as hydrodynamics engineer and later serving in engineering project management positions. In 2018, she was appointed Managing Director…
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Willy Gauttier
Chief Operating Officer
Willy began his career with Technip Energies in 1996 designing flexible pipes and later moved into project management roles in Canada, Middle East, India, Africa and elsewhere. In 2010 he served as Vice-President Technip Marine Operations Services before becoming Technip-Heerema Consortium Director for Kaombo. He also served as Executive Project…
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Grégory Dionisi
Chief Financial Officer
Gregory is a financial expert with more than 20 years of experience, serving as Chief Financial Officer at Ekwil. He joined Technip in 2004. Throughout his career, Gregory has excelled in various management roles in financial and internal control, financial planning and analysis, and treasury across different organizations and countries.…
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Jurriaan Kien
Chief Legal Officer
Jurriaan started his legal career 30 years ago in private practice at one of the top Dutch law firms. He later moved in-house to Alstom Transport in Paris and Singapore, Veolia Water Solutions and EDF International before joining SBM Offshore in 2016. Since then, Jurriaan has focused on the energy…
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Leadership Team
Benjamin Royer
Sales Director
With 20 years of experience starting in the offshore O&G and LNG industry, Benjamin brings its expertise in large EPCI contracts and project partnerships, and currently serves as Sales Director at Ekwil. He joined Technip Energies in 2012 and has held various management positions as head of legal contracting in…
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Stéphanie St Hill
Business Development Director
Stephanie is Business Development Director at Ekwil, driving global positioning in the floating wind sector. With 17 years of prior experience at SBM Offshore, she has served in various roles from Quality Assurance to Managing Director Advisor and Renewables. For the past seven years, she has been actively involved in…
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Hervé Cariou
Project Execution Director
Spanning nearly 30 years, Herve’s career in the energy industry includes 28 years at SBM in positions focused on EPC projects, including engineering, proposals, engineering project manager and project manager. He gained multiple site experiences in different shipyards and lead the SBM LNG Product Line. He managed several innovation projects…
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Aurélien Leridon
Head of Product and Engineering Semi Submersible
Aurélien serves as Head of Product and Engineering for Ekwil’s semi-submersible solutions. With a strong foundation in naval architecture, he has developed extensive expertise in offshore engineering and operations. Since 2021, Aurélien has been actively involved in the development of floating offshore wind technologies at Technip Energies, reflecting a commitment…
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Guillaume Bonnaffoux
Head of Product & Engineering TLP
Guillaume has 20-plus years of experience in the fields of hydraulics, fluid mechanics and offshore hydrodynamics, plus experience in turret and mooring systems design and floating offshore structures. In recent years, he has been working on a large variety of offshore projects as both lead engineer with direct contact with…
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