A director of industrial SMEs and ETIs since 2014, Albert Bruneau joins D&I – Dirigeants et Investisseurs – as a partner. With recognized expertise in turnaround, strategic repositioning and international expansion, he will actively contribute to the firm’s development alongside its five partners: Pascal Heems, Philippe Lang, Emmanuel Pinto, Frédéric Weishaar and Nicolas Trouche, under the chairmanship of Patrick Bordessoule.
An engineer by training, Albert Bruneau is a graduate of HEC (Executive MBA, 2009) and holds a certificate in the restructuring of distressed companies from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2024). He began his career at Air Liquide as a researcher and sales engineer before joining Foster Wheeler in engineering. In 2001, he joined Vallourec, where he held a number of strategic sales and marketing positions, managing a sales area worth over 500 million euros and contributing to the Group’s development in West Africa, South America and India.
Called in 2014 to head Vallourec HET, he turned around the ailing subsidiary and led its sale in two years. In 2016, he took over as head of Neotiss, overseeing the restructuring and development of subsidiaries in France and abroad (Korea, China, India, USA). In 2023, he joined the family-owned ETI LBA as Business Unit Director, where he successfully orchestrated the reorganization and repositioning of the business in growth markets.
After a decade of experience at the helm of industrial SMEs and ETIs facing complex challenges, Albert Bruneau now joins D&I as a partner.
