Vincent Maret is Innovation director with Bouygues SA, the holding company of the Bouygues Group (*), Vince focuses on innovation and business transformation serving all of the Group’s business units. Among his main topics of interest: AI and the Future of Work, Energy and Smart Infrastructures. His area of expertise includes agile methods; AI for performance; design thinking C/K methods; value quadrant …
Bouygues is a diversified industrial group with a strong corporate culture, organized around 4 distinct sectors. Construction, with Bouygues Construction (building, civil work), Bouygues Immobilier (property development) and Colas (roads); Energies and Services with EQUANS; Telecoms with Bouygues Telecom and Media with TF1. Bouygues operates in 81 countries; it has a workforce of 220,000 employees.
2023 Sales: €56 billion. Listed on CAC40.
Vince has an extensive experience in marketing, strategy, innovation, project management, telecom and Information Technologies; as Marketing Manager; deputy R&D director with Bouygues Telecom and previously as a Project Executive with IBM Global Services. Vince is very familiar with international environments. He was the founder and CEO of Winnovation the US Office of Bouygues Telecom, in the Silicon Valley, now serving the whole Group.
Vincent sits on the board of directors of Bouygues Asia, an outpost of the Group based in Tokyo for the purpose of technology scouting, business support & sales development; He is also a board member of Cap Digital, the French cluster for digital transformation and serves on its Executive Committee as Special Delegate for Digital Twin, Construction, Renovation & Environment. Vince serves on the board of Fondation Mines Telecom which supports IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) in its training, innovation, research and foresight missions at the heart of digital, industrial, energy and educational transformations. He is the chairman of ESPCI Paris’ s Industrial Council sits on the board of ESPCI alumni, his alma mater.
He used to be a member of the steering committee of the Open Innovation Club (Paris & Co) and to serve on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San-Francisco and was Chairman of its High-Tech Committee until June 2005. He also sat –as Secretary General- on the Board of Directors of Wireless Link, the French Association managing WIFI
Vince is a graduate of ESPCI Paris, Paris, France – Master’s degree in Physics, Master’s Degree in Chemistry – and from Sorbonne University, Paris – Master’s Degree in Electronics. –
(*) Bouygues is a diversified industrial group with a strong corporate culture, organized around four business segments: Construction (Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Immobilier, Colas), Energies & Services (Equans), Telecoms (Bouygues Telecom), and Media (TF1). The Group operates in around 80 countries and employs approximately 220,000 people. Revenue 2025 : €56.9 billion. Listed on the CAC 40.
