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Laurent Schneider Maunoury joined Naval Energies as Chai-
rman in 2017. He started his career within the PSA Group,
then after being responsible for industrial development and
special advisor to the Préfet of the Champagne-Ardenne
Region. In 1996 he joined Safran where he held various se-
nior positions. He was in particular appointed Manager of
Snecma’s Le Creusot plant, then from 2002 to 2005, Opera-
tion Group VP at Messier-Dowty, landing gears world leader
for aircraft undercarriage. Last but not least, from 2005 to
2010, he was appointed CEO of SLCA, a subsidiary of the
Safran Group specialised in composite aerostructures.
In 2011, he was appointed CEO of Saphymo, an international group specialised in radiation
monitoring systems. In 2016, Laurent Schneider-Maunoury was appointed General Manager
of Quantel, specialised in ophthalmological and industrial lasers, where he led the manage-
rial and shareholder transition.
Laurent Schneider-Maunoury is 51 years old, graduated from Polytechnique and Ecole Na-
tionale des Ponts et Chaussées, and holds an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs.

You are a very interesting company and an bines, floating wind turbines and Ocean Thermal
interesting start-up. Please, let us know Energy Conversion (OTEC), a system to exploit
about your recent history. the temperature differential between the sea bot-
Our Company was created in its present form tom and the surface, and convert it into power.
at the end of 2016, but Naval Energies is a con- Naval Energies is now at a decisive crossroads
tinuation of the R&D work carried out by Naval in its development: the company operates on an
Group since 2008, and the acquisition of the Irish emerging market, which is still made up of uncer-
OpenHydro start-up in 2013. Naval Energies is a tainties and numerous challenges – technological,
world actor in Marine Renewable Energies (MRE). industrial and financial – to be overcome.
Subsidiary of Naval Group, well known in France,
Naval Energies is present throughout the MRE sy- Who are the shareholders and main partners
stems and subsystems lifecycle and controls the in Naval Energies?
entire value chain, from design to manufacturing, Today we have three shareholders or rather part-
deployment and maintenance, with respect for ners, all very supportive and with common inte-
the environment, at sea and in coastal areas. rests. Naturally, we see many synergies with all of
Naval Energies is today structured around three them. Naval Group is our main shareholder as the
marine renewable energy technologies: tidal tur- company owns 60% of Naval Energies. The Naval
Group invested in our company over 300 M€ over
the last decade. We have also worked extensi-
vely with the French and Chilean Governments
on several R&D programs. TechnipFMC is a world
leader in project management, engineering and
construction for the energy industry with which
we can easily find synergies. Another very impor-
tant shareholder for Naval Energies is Bpifrance,
a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts (French
Consignments and Loans Fund) and the State, a
trusted partner of entrepreneurs.

We read about your activities in exploiting
tidal and ocean thermal energy, as well as
your involvement in offshore wind energy.
Can you tell us more?
We have three business lines at the moment. The
most advanced product is the tidal turbine. This
system converts the energy contained in sea cur-
rents. They use the force and speed of the sea

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