Governance for excellence

Integrated, matrix-based and customer-oriented, our organisation seeks to support our growth and competitiveness strategy in France and abroad, for the benefit of our corporate performance and the sovereignty of navies.

Naval Group

Comité exécutif de Naval Group 

Organisation

Five product and service departments, three cross-functional operational departments and five functional departments form the basis of Naval Group’s organisational setup.

Our activities

The Executive Committee

Naval Group is governed by an Executive Committee. Chaired by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, the Executive Committee defines the group’s objectives.

The Executive Committee takes decisions on all topics having a major impact on the strategy, functioning, and commercial and operational activities of the group. It meets on a bimonthly basis and as required, defines the group’s objectives and takes decisions on all topics having a major impact on the strategy, functioning, and commercial and operational activities of the group.

Our strategy

Pierre Éric Pommellet

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Géraldine Le Maire

Executive Vice President, General Secretary

Laurent Espinasse

Executive Vice President, Submarines

Marie-Laure Bourgeois

Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Vincent Le Biez

Executive Vice President, Finance and Real Estate

Vincent Martinot-Lagarde

Executive Vice President, Surface Ships

Éric Balufin

Executive Vice President, Services

Aurore Neuschwander

Executive Vice President, Drones, Autonomous Systems and Underwater Weapons

Franck Ferrer

Executive Vice President, Systems, Equipment and Propulsion

Jean-Luc France

Executive Vice President, Human Resources

Guillaume Rochard

Executive Vice President, Strategy, Partnerships and Institutional Affairs

Véronique Page

Executive Vice President, Communications

Éric Papin

Executive Vice President, Technical

Laurent Moser

Executive Vice President, Operations and Performance

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors decides on all the major strategic, economic, financial and technological policies concerning the company’s activity. Its 18 members protect the interests of the company’s principal stakeholders: the shareholders, employees and customers. 

As per the provisions of Article 4 of Order No. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 on the governance and operations involving the capital of State-owned companies, the State appoints a representative to sit on the company’s Board of Directors. Eleven members are appointed by the General Meeting of Shareholders. The Board also includes six employee representatives, appointed by their peers, representing a third of Board members. 

  • Chairman: Pierre Éric Pommellet.
  • Representative of the State, a legal entity director: Pierre Jeannin.
  • Directors appointed by the Shareholder’s General Assembly: Pierre Éric Pommellet, Patrice Caine, Nathalie Ravilly, Pascal Bouchiat, Bernard Rétat, Jacques Hardelay, Valérie Champagne, François Geleznikoff, Guenaelle Penin de la Raudiere, Geneviève Mouillerat, Monique Legrand-Larroche.
  • Directors elected as employee representatives: Emmanuel Boscher-Tokarski, Amélie Pichon, Béatrice Unia, Régis Guyot, Tony Lecorps et Laurent Elie.

Our commitments

Shareholders

Naval Group is a public limited company under French law.

As of 31 December 2025, the capital of Naval Group is held 62.25% by the State, 35% by Thales, 1.57% by employees and former employees of the company and its subsidiaries via the Naval Group company shareholding mutual investment fund (FCPE Actionnariat Naval Group), 1.16% by Naval Group Actionnariat (held indirectly 100% by Naval Group – Autocontrôle) and 0.02% directly by employees of the company.