BOUVERET Richard

Richard Bouveret has been the CEO & Chairman of Blue Solutions and Bluebus, both 100% subsidiaries of the Bolloré Group, since September 2022.

Richard is a connoisseur of vehicles and their lifecycles, an expert in mechatronics and electrification, and a specialist in cutting-edge technologies. He has a keen interest in all innovations in this sector.

Richard Bouveret joined the Bolloré Group at a pivotal moment for the Blue divisions: his mission is to make Blue Solutions and Bluebus leaders in the solid-state battery and electric bus markets. Richard Bouveret’s passion for cars began when he was a child, thanks to the automobile manufacturers’ manuals he inherited from his grandfather.

An engineering graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, he spent the last few decades with Valeo, then with the ZF Group, where he led talent and business development strategies, optimized the quality and costs of industrial operations, oversaw commercial transformations and steered merger and acquisition policies.

With over 28 years of international automotive experience, Richard is recognized as a passionate and pragmatic leader who focuses on talent to create, execute, and monitor disruptive strategies aimed at delivering unique selling propositions to ensure short and medium-term sustainable sales outperformance, positive incremental margin, the right level of cash conversion and the most effective talent retention plan.

Richard has accumulated a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the automotive sector. He is also highly visionary when it comes to structuring his business, thanks to his international experience in North America, Europe, Turkey, India, China, South-Korea, and Japan.