International Congress : Congress SIA POWERTRAIN // Rouen 2018

After various assignments in Powertrain organization, Mr. Cornet is appointed General Manager in 2012, in charge of Powertrain Design and Validation. Thanks to a 15 year deep collaboration with Nissan team, he is promoted Alliance Global Director, in 2015, managing Advanced Engineering for both Renault and Nissan.

Today, as Alliance Global Director, Mr. Cornet is accountable of all powertrain projects from ICE to Battery EV, through Transmission and Hybrids.

Philippe Divry is Senior Vice President, Group Trucks Strategy at Volvo Group Headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden. He is in charge of Strategy, Business Portfolio and Partnership issues.

Prior to this, Philippe Divry was President, Volvo India, in charge of Sales of Volvo Trucks in India, and of the cooperation with VE Commercial Vehicles, a joint-venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors.

Philippe Divry has 27 years of experience in the Commercial Vehicle Industry, and held various manufacturing and business development positions at Renault Vehicules Industriels from 1990 to 2000.

Philippe Divry was Head of Volvo Powertrain France Division from 2003 to 2009.

He also served as SVP, Global Product, Marketing and Strategy at Volvo Buses in Sweden from 2009 to 2012.

Paul Farrell is Senior Vice President Strategy and Product Marketing.

Prior to this, Mr. Farrell was Vice President, Strategy and Planning for Delphi Powertrain Systems.

Mr. Farrell joined Delphi Finance in 2013 to establish a corporate strategy function. He has over twenty years of experience driving strategic change, improving operations, and developing new technology.

Prior to Delphi, Mr. Farrell worked for more than eight years as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and A.T. Kearney, serving clients on a broad range of strategy and operational topics. Before that, he held a diverse mix of positions at Visteon Corporation and Ford Motor Company, including management positions in engineering and technical sales. Mr. Farrell began his career at the General Electric Company as a development engineer working on U.S. Navy nuclear reactor applications.

Mr. Farrell holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Michigan State University. He also earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University, both in mechanical engineering.

After graduating from two leading French institutes: INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliqués) and IFP School (1986), Alain Raposo joined Renault in 1987, where he held various positions in Powertrain Design and Technology Division before moving, in 2005, to Nissan in Japan where he was appointed Senior Manager in charge of lower base engine structure development.

In 2009, he returned to Renault as Vice President, Powertrain Design and Technology Development then, in 2012, he became VP in charge of Alliance Powertrain Planning office, coordinating Renault-Nissan powertrain strategy. In 2014 he became Alliance Global VP in charge of Renault-Nissan Powertrain and EV Engineering.

In 2017 he joined PSA Groupe, in charge of EV Programs and Strategy.  He was appointed to his current position at the PSA Groupe, Engineering Division, in April 2018.