Bouygues rejigs top roles as pandemic takes toll on 2020 numbers

By Jordan Marshall2021-02-18T13:25:00

French giant helping build HS2 railway appoints first chief executive from outside Bouygues family

Improving its corporate governance has seen Bouygues split its chairman and chief executive roles with the firm appointing its first chief executive from outside the Bouygues family in almost 70 years of business.

The company has only ever had two chairmen and chief executives since it was set up in 1952 but this morning it said that Martin Bouygues, who took over from his late father and founder of the group Francis Bouygues in 1989, has been replaced as chief executive by Olivier Roussat.

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