Erwoan Pezron is being appointed Managing Director of Arkema’s Technical Polymers business unit effective 1st July 2015. Pezron graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris (ESPCI) and has a PhD in Polymer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
In 1989, he joined Total’s Resins Division as R&D Research Scientist at the Verneuil-en-Halatte R&D Center. In 1996, he became Vice President Technology at Cook Composites and Polymers (Total’s Resins Division) in the United States. In 2002, he became Business Development Director of Atofina’s Technical Polymers business, and in 2004 became R&D Director for Technical Polymers and Director of Cerdato (Arkema’s R&D center specializing in polymers). Since 2008, he had been Managing Director of the Fluoropolymers business unit.