Executive Team

Arnaud Pieton is Chief Executive Officer of Technip Energies. Mr. Pieton served as President of TechnipFMC’s Subsea business segment from October 2018 to October 2020. From January 2017 to October 2018, Mr. Pieton served as Executive Vice President People & Culture of TechnipFMC. From January 2004 to January 2017, Mr. Pieton served in a number of leadership positions at Technip, including as President Asia Pacific Region covering subsea and onshore/offshore operations and other subsea assignments in Paris, Houston and Kuala Lumpur. Prior to joining Technip in 2004, he held several positions at Serimax, part of Vallourec Group.

Mr. Pieton holds a master’s degree in material science & welding from Polytech Nantes and attended executive education programs at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Marco Villa is Chief Operating Officer of Technip Energies. He has previously served as TechnipFMC’s President Onshore/Offshore (now Technip Energies) for Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa. From 2003 until 2017, Marco served in a number of leadership positions at Technip, including as President Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa, Region B President and Chief Executive Officer, Region B Chief Financial Officer and Export & Project Finance Manager of Technip Italy.

Prior to joining Technip, he worked as a finance specialist for Finmeccanica, an Italian multinational company specializing in aerospace, defense and security, and as the Head of the Finance and Risk Management Division of Telespazio (Telecom Italia Group), a European spaceflight services company. Marco graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Rome University.

Bruno Vibert is Chief Financial Officer of Technip Energies. He previously served as Vice President Finance for TechnipFMC’s Onshore/Offshore business (now Technip Energies) from 2017 to 2020. Bruno Vibert joined Technip in 2014 serving as Chief Accounting and Treasury Director for the North America region up to 2016 when he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Yamal LNG Project.

Prior to joining Technip, Bruno was a partner at Fair Links and senior manager at Ernst & Young, where he specialized in the energy industry after beginning his career at Arthur Andersen. Bruno Vibert holds a master's degree in finance from ESCP Europe in Paris and holds an advanced degree in accounting and finance (DESCF). 

Michael McGuinty is Chief Legal Officer of Technip Energies. Prior to joining Technip Energies in 2021, Michael McGuinty was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Valaris plc. Previously, he served as General Counsel and Company Secretary of TAQA, the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company. Michael spent 18 years with Schlumberger where he held various senior legal positions in Paris, the Middle-East and the United States. He began his career in private practice in Canada and France specializing in corporate and commercial law. He holds a law degree from Aix-Marseille university and a degree in common law and civil law from McGill University.

Wei Cai is Chief Technology Officer of Technip Energies. Before joining Technip Energies, Wei spent more than 18 years at GE Research, where she held various leadership roles including General Manager of the GE Global Research Center in Shanghai, and later at GE Research headquarters in New York as Executive Business Program Manager, Executive Technology Director- Functional Materials and more recently as Executive Energy Transformation Technology Leader.

Wei also served a dual role as the Inclusion & Diversity leader for GE Research from 2020 to 2021. She holds a PhD in Material Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wei had more than 40 patents filed and authored numerous journal articles.

Magali Castano is Chief People Officer of Technip Energies, having previously served as Senior Vice President of People & Culture.

She served as Vice President People & Culture of TechnipFMC’s Technip Energies segment since March 2020. Prior to this role, Magali served as TechnipFMC’s Vice President Human Resources & Communications Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa from January 2017 and as Vice President People Development, Corporate, from January 2018. From 2011 to December 2016, she served in various Human Resources leadership positions at Technip, including as Head of Talent Management Region Europe, Africa and India and as Vice President Talent Management, Corporate.

Prior to joining Technip, Magali Castano served for 10 years in various Human Resources management positions in Shell’s Downstream Europe organization. She started her career in Human Resources at PSA Group. Magali Castano holds a master’s degree in business from HEC Paris.

Christophe Virondaud is Senior Vice President Commercial of Technip Energies. Since January 2017, he has served as Senior Vice President of Business Development Onshore/Offshore (now Technip Energies segment) for TechnipFMC’s Europe, Middle East, India and Africa region. Christophe served for 18 years in a number of business development and operational leadership positions at Technip, including Vice President of Business Development for Major Projects and for Middle East and was Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi and Doha offices.

Prior to joining Technip in September 2002, Christophe Virondaud held positions in business development and sales for far east countries for technology licensing at IFP/Axens. He holds master’s degrees in engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and from École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs.

Christophe Bélorgeot is Senior Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs of Technip Energies, also in charge of Marketing and Sustainability. Previously, he was Senior Vice President Corporate Engagement of TechnipFMC and Executive Officer.

Christophe joined Technip in 2005 within the Strategy department before moving to various communications functions. Earlier in his career he held positions in both the public and private energy sectors, in France and in the United States. Those positions were in the energy sector giving him a broad vision and understanding of the company’s industry. Christophe Bélorgeot holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from ENSIGC.

Alain Poincheval is Fellow Executive Project Director at Technip Energies. Alain started his career with the company in 1987 as Process Engineer in Paris. After 10 years, he moved to offshore project management both for subsea facilities and offshore platform & floater project in the successive positions of Project Control Manager, Project Manager, Project Director, then Executive Project Director.

Between 2007 and 2011, Alain Poincheval was Project and Consortium Director of the Pazflor project for Total E&P Angola. From 2011 to 2017, Alain was Project and Consortium Director of Shell FLNG Prelude Project. In 2016, Alain became Fellow Executive Project Director. Since September 2017, he has been the Senior Vice President for the Paris Business Unit. He is a graduate of the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG).

Samir Karoum is Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer of Technip Energies. He has previously held various commercial and general management positions, at local, regional and global levels, successively for Areva, Alstom and Schneider Electric.

Prior to joining Technip Energies, Samir was Start-Ups Partner Vice President at Schneider Electric. A graduate of ESTP, he has also participated in numerous executive programs (The Wharton School Venture Capital, INSEAD Senior Management Program, CHEDE Auditor).