On the first day I found myself in Milan

And then, after everything is chained. "The sentence, slipped to the detour of the conversation, summarizes well what has been the course professional Pascal Juery, which came to forty-five years in the tightened Executive - four people in all - of the Rhodia chemist. For the new Deputy Director-General responsible for, inter alia, subsidiary Novecare (roughly 20 of the activity of the Group), purchasing and R & D functions and the North America zone, all stages of this journey initiatory journey like successive at a steady pace, leaving him time to look elsewhere if the polymers were more green.

Early student

It all begins with a frustration. Born into a modest Middle - used father in a trustee in co-ownership, mother Secretary-, young Juery little is known about vast world than Paris, where he was born and grew up, and the family home of the Lauragais which he retained, if not emphasis, at least a love pronounced rugby and fine dining. But it is of the type first class and incorporates, at only eighteen years old, ESCP. When is the time to choose its final stage, the desire to see the country grows to opt for the audit of Rhône-Poulenc rather than the Royal Road named Arthur Andersen. "On the first day, I found myself in Milan." I was filled! "he says before talking about his departure in the VSNE in Seoul on the eve of the Olympic Games. "I was struck by what I call the"growth"to the naked eye." When I arrived, there were no cars. When I am away, congestion!

The journey continues with his return to the seat in the internal audit service, the many acquisitions carried out at the same time by Rhône-Poulenc in the United States giving him the opportunity to cross many times Atlantic. But the young man, who has taken taste to his life as a world traveler, is not a career in management control. In 1990, he left the nursery of the future financial framework of the group for an operational position in phosphates. First contact with the business... and chemistry.

Manager in the soul, the ex-auditeur soon broadened his scope of responsibilities, to take the reins of a market (detergent) in 1998 at the global level. Therefore, everything is accelerating. Expatriate first in the United States in 2001 - the blocking of traffic following the attacks of September 11 nearly make him miss his marriage in Normandy-, he returned to France at the same time where the storm is raging around the House Rhodia. But Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, the successor of Jean-Pierre Tirouflet, bet on him and assigned its first branch, personal care and detergents division, and then purchases, which represent approximately 60 of the turnover. A position based in Lyon, in which he will hardly have time to acclimatize: after one year, the staff asked him to leave the United States, to take the head of the company Novecare. With a priority objective: to grow the business.

Exploit all possible

Installed in a typical American home at Princeton with his wife and two children, Pascal Juery is give the extent of his talents as Pack leader: "free energy", "work on ourselves", "thinking in terms of opportunities and constraints" are some of the messages that he did move his troops to achieve the objectivewith a real success if judged by the figures. Which is of course not escaped Jean-Pierre Clamadieu.