No doubt JeanPierre Duprieu is a faithful

Thirty-eight years of life together with his wife Marie-Florence, thirty-three with Air Liquide. No doubt: Jean-Pierre Duprieu is a faithful. And loyalty pays. His wife gave him five children who were in fact turn gift of nine grandchildren. As his employer, he comes from the hoist at the age of fifty-seven in the trio of head who oversees the large geographical areas, markets, and functional directions. Appointed a member of the branch alongside the CEO of a global industrial gases, Benoît Potier, and number of its Associate Director General, Pierre Dufour, the native of Chartres has inherited at the conclusion of a new Yalta managerial, Europe, health, information and purchasing systems.

Synonymous with appointment to Jean-Pierre Duprieu of return on the banks of the Seine, after four years in Tokyo as Director of the Asia-Pacific region and electronics at the global level. This expatriation, it is said that he called his greeting. Upon his arrival at Air Liquide, in 1976, the young engineer fresh Institute of Paris-Grignon had indicated that it was voluntary to go abroad. Las! the promotions themselves are chained, with positions all more incentives with each others, and most often turned to the international, but always based in France. A twenty-four years, it sends it extol the merits of cryogenic and other fluids cocktails based on nitrogen or argon to manufacturers of food, its sector of origin. Many of the key travel, but not stays extended beyond our borders.

A "citizen of the world".

After a passage on the ground in Nantes then Lille, were assigned to thirty-six years the reins of a commercial management and marketing strong France of a demi-millier of people. Thirty-nine years, this is the position of Director General of the industrial gas operations (still in the hexagon) which falls it. Then the supervision of the area in Northern Europe, soon extended to the countries of the East, the Mediterranean basin, Africa and the Middle East... Attractive proposals that he could not of course step decline, even if they do not filled his desire to leave live under other skies. "Each time has told me: it will be for the next opportunity", he recalled amused.

Pending of satisfaction on this point, the leader always tried not to stick to the formula "air-taxi-hotel and return". "". "I visited personally all the countries I have had the responsibility", he says. Is between 70 and 80 in total. It is hardly Latin America that he know poorly. "Understanding the culture of the people with whom one is in case, is what gives its salt business", note this great jazz enthusiast who was a member of contractors and Christian leaders (EDC) - another way for him to open up to others.

It is therefore in the Japan, from 2005, this square and warm man was able to fully live his life as "citizen of the world". "It's the country I know best after the France." I could talk for hours... including Japanese! "ensures. The head of Asian bridge, Jean-Pierre Duprieu had the upper hand over 20 countries, 8.000 collaborators, a research centre, three engineering centers and dozens of factories, including 20 on Chinese soil! A dense mesh which will be allowed to explore substantive Asia fills in. With Marie-Florence.