Michelin appoints Portigliatti EVP, High Tech Materials

Maude Portigliatti, currently senior vice president, Advanced Research at Michelin, will join the company’s Group Executive Committee as executive vice president, High Tech Materials, effective 1 July 2021. She will succeed Sonia Artinian-Fredou in this role following the latter’s departure from Michelin.

Maude Portigliatti is a graduate of INSA Lyon engineering school, where she majored in materials physics. She also holds a research master’s degree in materials science and a PhD in polymer physics from the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, led at the time by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes of the Collège de France.

Portigliatti joined the Michelin Group in 2000. After helping to set up a new Materials R&D Department in 2007, she was appointed group scientific director in 2013. She became innovation deployment programs director within the Automotive Original Equipment Business Line in 2017, serving the Group’s key customers in North America, Europe and Asia. The next role for Portigliatti was at the helm of Advanced Research for the Michelin Group; taking on this role in 2019, she was in charge of developing Michelin innovations for the tyre and high-tech materials segments.

Over the past six years, Sonia Artinian-Fredou has helped transform the High Tech Materials Business Department into one of Michelin’s future growth drivers. “The Group would like to extend its warmest thanks to Sonia Artinian-Fredou for her contribution to Michelin’s growth.”