Olivier Zarrouati (born April 16, 1958 in

Toulon Toulon (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Tolon , , ) is a city on the French Riviera and a large port on the Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and the Provence province, Toulon is th ...

, France) is a French

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and business man. From 2007 until 2017, he served as Chief Executive Officer of

Zodiac Aerospace Zodiac Aerospace was a French aerospace group founded in 1896 that supplied systems and equipment for aircraft. It had around 100 sites across the globe and employed nearly 35,000 people. In October 2018, it was acquired by French aerospace an ...

Biography

Education

Zarrouati, an alumnus of the Ecole Polytechnique (1980), graduated from the

École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in 1982.

Career

Zarrouati started his career as a defense

before joining the French Space agency ( Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) from 1982 to 1988. In 1989, he joined

Matra Marconi Space Matra Marconi Space (MMS) was a Franco-British aerospace company. History Matra Marconi Space was established in 1990 as a joint venture between the space and telecommunication divisions of the Lagardère Group ( Matra Espace) and the GEC g ...

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for

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s. In 1998, he led the Development Direction of Intertechnique which was acquired by Zodiac group in 1999. He then served as

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of Aerosafety’s segment and

of the Group’s aeronautical activities. Since 2007, he has been

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. In October 2015, he was chosen by the Supervisory Board to serve a third term of four years as CEO.

Other activity

Since 2011, Zarrouati has been President of the ISAE SUPAERO Foundation.

Honors

In 2000, he was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit and Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2013.

References

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