Pierre Eric Pommellet is a graduate of École Polytechnique, Sup Aero and holds a Masters of Science degree from the MIT.
He began his career at the French defence procurement agency (DGA) as Armaments Engineer and subsequently becoming principal private secretary to Jean-Pierre Raffarin, France’s Minister for SMEs, Trades and Craftspeople between 1995 and 1997. Pierre Eric Pommellet then joined Thales. He was Technical Director of the Navigation Unit before being appointed, in 2001, Director of the Thales factory in Bordeaux, and then in 2004, Director of the Aerospace Military Equipment Business Line. In 2008, he was appointed Head of the services and business transformation sector within the Aerospace Division and became, in June 2009, SVP in charge of Aerospace business.
He was appointed to his current position in February 2010.