Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients for health, nutrition and bio industrial markets, announces the appointment of Thierry Fournier as its new CEO, effective July 18, 2025.

Thierry is currently the CEO of the Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region for SaintGobain, a global leader in light and sustainable construction, with over 161,000 employees and revenues of more than €46B in 2024.

Thierry is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He started his career as a civil servant for the French Administration before joining Saint-Gobain in 2005. Thierry has held different leadership positions with Saint-Gobain, in geographies includingFrance, Russia, and Brazil, where he held the role of CEO for the Latin America region before comingback to France and taking his current position in 2021.