Vincent Maret
BOUYGUES
Vincent Maret
Corporate Open Innovation Director
Bouygues is a diversified industrial group with a strong corporate culture, organized around 3 sectors. Construction, with Bouygues Construction (building, civil works and electrical contracting), Bouygues Immobilier (property development) and Colas (roads); Telecoms with Bouygues Telecom and Media with TF1. Bouygues is operating in almost 100 countries, it has a workforce of 120,000.
Sales: €32.4 billion in 2015. Listed on CAC40.
Vince has an extensive experience in marketing, strategy, innovation, project management, telecom and Information Technologies; as Marketing Manager; deputy R&D director with Bouygues Telecom and
previously as a Project Executive with IBM Global Services. Vince is very familiar with international environments. He set-up and led the US Office of Bouygues Telecom for 4 years.
Vincent serves on the board of directors of Bouygues Asia, an outpost of the Group based in Tokyo for the purpose of technology scouting and business development; He is also a board member of Cap Digital, the French cluster for digital transformation and serves as president of its Membership Committee.
He used to be a member of the steering committee of the Open Innovation Club (Paris & Co) and to serve on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San-Francisco and was Chairman of its High Tech Committee until June 2005. He also sat –as Secretary General- on the Board of Directors of Wireless Link, the French Association managing WIFI
Vince is a graduate of ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, France – Master’s Degree in Physics, Master’s Degree in Chemistry – and from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris – Master’s Degree in Electronics.