Didier Marginedes

Didier Marginedes

Didier Marginedes

Vice Chairman, BlueSolutions
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Didier Marginedes graduated from « Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité » in 1978. He has a Master of Sciences from Berkeley University (USA) obtained in 1979 and an Executive MBA from INSEAD (1989).

After a first experience within Aerospatiale, he joined Schlumberger (81-86) to lead the development of signal processing for logging tools. He then worked for Air Liquide (86-95) where he was in charge of the development of energy-related businesses and of strategic marketing. In 1995, he joined Bolloré as R&D Director where he managed the development strategy including competitive analysis and new products development. In 2001, Didier Marginedes added the function of General Manager of a new subsidy of Bolloré group: Batscap whose objectives were the development and sales of energy storage products such as batteries and supercapacitors. These products were mainly dedicated to clean energy transportation markets such as Electric Vehicle (Bluecar), electric bus (Bluebus), hybrid vehicles and clean tram system with energy recovery. He has been in charge of Autolib technical developments and of the developments of solutions of Energy Storage optimization. He is currently vice chairman of BlueSolutions (listed company subsidiary of Bolloré Group) which gathers all the companies providing services in energy storage optimization in mobility and stationary markets.