Management Team

Responsive Management team

The structure of Neopost is decentralized. Subsidiaries have great autonomy and are close to their customers, enabling them to meet their needs better and offer more customised services. The limited number of reporting levels guarantees enhanced responsiveness and flexibility in decision-making.
The Group’s operational management team has ten members, making it both tight and close-knit. These ten executives drive the Group’s main functions (research and development, production, distribution, strategic marketing, relations with postal authorities, human resources, logistics, legal and finance) and hold meetings twice a month. These managers have a resolutely international profile, and develop and implement the company’s strategic decisions worldwide.

Denis Thiery, was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2007. He was CFO and was appointed CEO in June 2007 He was previously group CFO, have joined neopost in 1998 . From 1991, he was Group CFO of the Moorings, a world leader in leisure boat rental based in the US. From 1984 to 1991, he held a number of senior positions with Wang France becoming CFO in June 1989. Denis Thiery started his career in 1979 as auditor with Coopers & Lybrand both in France and the US, and was audit Manager when he left audit in 1984. He graduated from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC).	Bertrand Dumazy, became Chief Financial Officer in 2007. Bertrand Dumazy, is a graduate of ESCP, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He joined the Neopost Group in 2002 as Marketing and Strategy Director, before going on to head Neopost France. He began his career as a management consultant with Bain & Cie before becoming Investment Director at BC Partners.
Gérard Keraval is Chief Operating Officer for Europe and Rest of the World having joined in 2000. He has contributed to the growth enjoyed by neopost by steering the Ascom and Stielow acquisitions. Previously, he was Senior VP of Californian software company Autodesk in charge of sales and service for EMEA. Before that Gérard Keraval worked in sales, marketing and industrial management positions for OCE, and started professional life with Schlumberger. He graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique in Paris.	Henri Dura became Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer in 2005. Previously he had been Managing Director of neopost France since 2000. Under his leadership, its profitability grew significantly following reorganisation and implementation of cross selling activities. Previously Henri Dura held top marketing and management positions at Xerox, France Télécom, Kyocera and finally at Pitney Bowes. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris in economics and finance.
Patrick Nangle became Chief Operating Officer for North America and Japan in 2002. From 1997 to the time of its 2002 acquisition by neopost SA, he was Chief Executive Officer of Ascom Mailing Systems, based in Berne, Switzerland. For the two previous years, he was President of Ascom Canada, today part of neopost Canada. He holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.	Chris Hockey joined in 2005 as Group HR Director. Previously he held senior HR roles at Prudential-Bache-International, CHEP and IHS Energy. His early career was in operational and technical roles at Schlumberger in Asia, and as General Manager in Thailand. Following a staff role in training and development, he moved to Norway and took HR responsibility for the crews of 26 seismic vessels, before moving to Paris as Head of HR for Retail Petroleum Systems. Chris Hockey has worked in seven different countries and speaks English, French, Norwegian, Thai and Indonesian. He has an MA in physics from Oxford.
Dennis Gilham became Director of Corporate Partnerships Worldwide in 1997. Prior to that, he held senior positions in product development, strategic marketing and corporate management, and worked for Roneo Vickers and Alcatel. He worked in the field of electrical engineering and transport and access control systems for 10 years, before entering the business equipment industry. Dennis Gilham has a first degree in engineering and a post-graduate diploma in marketing research. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.	Alain Midowski joined as Group General Counsel in 2001. He participated actively in Ascom Mailing Systems acquisition and its integration into neopost Group. Previously he worked for ten years for Framatome (Nuclear and Connectors) as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law in the Legal Department. Before 1990 he held various corporate legal positions in companies and law firms. Alain Midowski graduated from University of Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne in business, public and administrative law.
Bernard Duret is Chief Operating Officer Group Industrial having joined in 1996. He is responsible for Group R&D, International Product and Service Support, manufacturing and Supply Chain. Previously he was VP of Industrial Electronic Equipment and R&D at Valeo (Automotive). Bernard Duret worked for Bull from 1987 to 1993 as VP of Industrial and Supply Chain, and before that, at Thomson in Europe and the Far East. He has a Masters degree in electronic engineering and an executive MBA.	Jos Van Stratum He was appointed COO of the emerging Logistics Systems division in 2006. He joined Neopost in 2002 as Managing Director of Neopost Technologies in the Netherlands, the Group’s competence center for the R&D, Manufacturing and Business Support of ‘document handling systems’. Having started his career in R&D, he held several management positions at Océ Technologies both in The Netherlands and in France, including the post of VP of customer service of one of its major divisions. He holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology.