Jean-Pierre Petit Digital Manufacturing
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Jean-Pierre Petit new CEO for Sogeti High Tech

Jean-Pierre Petit appointed CEO of Sogeti High Tech and Capgemini Group Leader for Digital Manufacturing

Paris, France, April 17th 2015 – Jean-Pierre Petit is appointed CEO of Sogeti High Tech, the Capgemini entity dedicated to Engineering Services and R&D Technology.

Hans van Waayenburg, CEO Sogeti Group, commented: “I am delighted that Jean-Pierre has agreed to take on the responsibility of leading Sogeti High Tech. Thanks to his extensive experience in both the Industrial sector and leadership management, he will further develop Sogeti High Tech’s expertise and manage a smooth integration of Euriware’ activities.

Jean-Pierre PetitJean-Pierre Petit is a SUPELEC graduate. He started his career in 1984 as a consultant within Andersen Consulting in charge of consulting and IT system integration, mainly for the industrial sector. He joined the Sagem Group in 1993 heading the R&D and cable manufacturing centre.

In 1999, Jean-Pierre was recruited by Capgemini Consulting, the Global Strategy and Transformation Consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, and given responsibility for the industry sector as well as R&D, logistics and manufacturing consulting activity.

After having managed the Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail and Energy-Utilities sectors with more than 3000 colleagues in France and a thousand in India and Morocco, Jean-Pierre was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Application Services in France, in January 2013.

As Chief Executive Officer of Sogeti High Tech, one of Jean-Pierre’s main goals will be to develop the Sogeti High Tech and Digital expertise to service large companies in the Industrial sector. He has also taken on the leadership of Digital Manufacturing for the Capgemini Group.

About Sogeti

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti implements solutions that will help organizations work faster, better, and smarter. By combining its agility and speed of implementation through a DevOps approach, Sogeti delivers innovative solutions in quality engineering, cloud and application development, all driven by AI, data and automation.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Get The Future You Want | www.capgemini.com

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Contact
  • Dominique Lafond
    Jean-Pierre Petit
    Sogeti High Tech Chief Executive Officer
    +33 (0)1 40 93 73 00