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Louis CATALA

Paray-Vieille-Poste

En résumé

Entrepreneurship & incubation - Corporate strategy, Growth, M&A

Areas of expertise :
- Corporate strategy, restructuring, due diligence, business models, business plan, growth strategy, corporate governance
- Performance & transformation : operational and financial performance improvement, cost modeling and reduction, asset efficiency, organization design, transformation lead, C-level mentoring

Louis began his career in 1998 with General Electric Healthcare on supply chain performance and manufacturing optimization issues during new products introduction phase. Then he joined the energy practice of Accenture in 2001 as a consultant and worked actively in the oil & gas downstream sector in Europe. During 12 years of business consulting with Accenture, Sia Partners and Mazars Consulting, he delivered about 100 engagements in the energy & industry sector.

Louis has an in-depth vision of the energy sector and is often interviewed as a specialist by journalists (like Le Monde, Les Echos and Challenges). He is also an active lecturer in business schools. His main areas of expertise are based on corporate strategy, investment and operation performance improvement.

He has conducted significant strategic engagements at C-level to a variety of companies in oil & gas and power distribution sectors. He focused, among others, on operational and financial performance improvement, cost reduction programs, asset efficiency, organization design and complex project management.

Coordonnées
Mail :
louis.catala@gmail.com
louis.catala@centraliens.net

Tel:
+33 (0) 7 61 40 02 55

Mes compétences :
Strategie
Project management
Restructuration/Réorganistaion
Energie
Supply chain management
Pétrole
Conduite du changement
Finance
Systèmes d'information
Violoncelle
Organisation
Industrie
Gestion de projet
Conseil
Six Sigma

Entreprises

  • Daher - VP Performance & Transformation

    Paray-Vieille-Poste 2016 - maintenant Reporting to the Executive committee, head of a team responsible for strategic engagements :

    • Group transformation in a growth context (PMI, M&A)
    • New business opportunities
    • Performance & Cost reduction
    • Business organization support for all business units
    • Information Management governance (> 150 projects)

  • Executive Business Accelerator - Partner

    Paris 2013 - 2016 EBA, an accelerator with a global vocation :

    Consolidate or accelerate the international development of high potential projects (re-prototyping / pre-marketing / opening key accounts worldwide / funding),

    Support leaders who want to create or acquire a business, co-found, co-invest or incorporate a startup in an operational or functional position,

    Support large groups in the drive of their innovational projects in startup mode operation or in securing their acquisitions or spin-offs.

    www.executivebusinessaccelerator.com

  • Mazars - Responsable offre conseil secteur Energie & Utilities

    Paris La Défense 2011 - 2013 Business development of the Industry & Energy segments within the consulting division:
    - Business strategy definition and commercial development of the Industry business unit
    - Lead client relationship and engagements at C-level on financial and operational improvement in the industrial sector (Energy, food, retail, high tech…)

    Mazars is a leading provider of professional services, which include audit, transactions, restructuring, tax, financial and risk advisory. The consulting business unit is tasked developing new clients across Europe, maximizing operational and financial performance.

    Responsible for creating the company’s advisory department over EMEA, driving cost reduction and restructuring offer.
    Acted as a director on engagements, driving consultant teams, advising on delivery methods and operational techniques.

    Key achievements:

    - Strong contribution to the creation of the Mazars consulting team (24 M€, 140 consultants)
    - Lead client relationship and engagements at C-level on financial and operational improvement in the energy and industrial sectors
    - Business strategy definition and commercial development of the Industry business unit
    - Construction, CEO: operational and financial performance diagnosis of an affiliate specialized in the metal construction; Turnaroud and restructuring plan proposed to the Executive committee
    - Defense, CEO: growth strategy plan with the Executive committee and commercial organization redesign to better serve the markets
    - Automotive, sourcing manager : review the industrial sourcing strategy and proposed a new key suppliers follow up process
    - Food, CEO: performance and cost structure analysis of the distribution networks for all 40 countries of the Group
    - Textile industry, CEO: performance flash diagnosis ; new organization design proposed to the Executive committee
    - Food, CEO: shared services cost reduction plan (15 M€ savings)

  • Sia Partners - Senior manager Energie & Utilities

    Paris 2006 - 2011 Sia Partners is a management consulting firm, created in Paris in 1999. (Turn over 2013 : 75 M€, 500 consultants)
    Sia Partners is independent, run by an international management team and organized as a partnership.
    Responsible for creating and developing the Energy & Utilities business unit.

    Key achievements:

    - Strong contribution to the creation of the Sia Partners Energy & Utilities team (20 M€, 100 consultants)
    - Lead client relationship and drive engagements execution
    - Construction, CEO: business plan for a new procurement and supply scheme of bitumen
    - Gas, Marketing B2C : coordination of a new B2C Energy efficiency solution from the conception with the marketing director to the roll out ; lead business negotiations with a local partner specialized in home safety
    - Power distribution, program manager : business plan and program governance of the B2C smart meters roll out on the French market (5 B€ investment program)
    - Power distribution, CFO : excellence program design and roll out, in the context of a new corporate shared service center roll out (350 M€ savings)
    - Coal, division CEO: corporate audit and new strategy plan of the coal division, in order to improve profitability ; affiliates audit and Branch reorganization (Hong Kong, South Africa & Europe affiliates)
    - Oil & Gas, CFO : global business excellence program evaluation for the CFO ; implementation of a new performance monitoring process (60 M€ investment program)
    - Oil Trading shipping, CEO : reorganization of the trading back office, based in Switzerland ; new organization design proposed to the CEO after a benchmark with key competitors
    - Oil & Gas, CIO: IT corporate strategy engagements for the CIO (IT carve out, IT architecture, program Business case…)

    - Publications et conférences
    - Etude sur la réduction des coûts IT parue dans les Echos, reprise par CIO informatique (http://www.lesechos.fr/medias/2008/1212/300316033.pdf)
    Blog « Energie » de Sia Conseil
    - Emergence de la filière Biocarburants
    - Quel avenir pour le smart metering ? Quels bénéfices pour le client final?
    - Efficacité énergétique : nouveau challenge pour les industriels
    - L'amélioration de la conception des produits par le PLM (http://energie.sia-conseil.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/20080131-insight-plm.pdf)
    - Interview d'Olivier Appert, Président de l'IFP
    Presse internationale spécialisée
    - From smart metering to demand response: Can mass markets be addressed? (Metering)
    - La marche vers le Full Green, Economie & Entreprise (Maroc)

    Le Figaro :
    - Point de vue sur l'avenir des stations service en GMS (http://energie.sia-conseil.com/20100316-lavenir-de-la-distribution-petroliere-en-grande-surface/)

    Challenges :
    - Point de vue sur la crise de la filière pétrolière (http://www.challenges.fr/magazine/evenement/0230.032595/le_plein_dangoisses.htm)

  • Accenture - Manager projets SAP

    Paris 2001 - 2006 Accenture is one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, with approximately 275,000 employees ; offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries; and net revenues of $28.6 billion for fiscal year 2013.

    Acted as a manager on engagements in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, UK, driving teams up to 25 consultants.

    Key achievements:

    - Total Europe: supply chain and operations performance improvement of all downstream business units, in a post merger context (main fuels, bitumen, lubricants, specialties...)

  • General Electric - Industrial project leader, new products industrialization, six sigma Black Belt

    Paris 1998 - 2001 GE is building the world by providing capital, expertise and infrastructure for a global economy. GE Capital has provided billions in financing so businesses can build and grow their operations and consumers can build their financial futures. We build appliances, lighting, power systems and other products that help millions of homes, offices, factories and retail facilities around the world work better

    Acted as a black belt in the Healthcare business unit, during new product industrialization phase.

    Key achievements:

    - Industrialization and production ramp up of medical imaging systems (mammography, digital vascular) within the new product development phase ("six sigma" methodology)
    - Implementation of new manufacturing and supply chain processes
    - Selection and performance monitoring of components suppliers (USA, Canada, Scotland, Hungary).

  • Total - Strategic studies

    COURBEVOIE 1997 - 1998 - Refineries production optimization to serve the German market
    - Supply chain performance improvement, from refineries to deposits

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