Yann Pierre joins Waga Energy as Group Sales

3 Settembre 2024

Waga Energy recently announced the appointment of Yann Pierre as Group Chief Commercial Officer, effective August 19, 2024. Reporting to Mathieu Lefebvre, CEO, Yann Pierre will oversee all commercial activities of the company, including business development, biomethane sales, contract management, and marketing. His primary mission will be to accelerate Waga Energy’s international expansion.

Yann Pierre is an engineer and a graduate of Polytech Nancy, with recognized expertise in the field of biomethane and waste-to-energy on a global scale. With twenty years of experience, he has played a key role in more than 300 biomethane production projects across Europe and North America. Among his notable achievements is the first French project to inject biomethane from food waste, in the Lille region.

With Yann Pierre’s arrival, Waga Energy strengthens its ambition to become a global leader in the biomethane sector, relying on solid expertise and a strategic vision focused on international growth.

Yann Pierre said: “I am thrilled to join Waga Energy, an innovative company that has become a globalleading RNG producer in less than a decade, and whose values of daring, commitment, cooperation and expertise I fully share. As Group Sales Director, my goal is to continue building our sales force in order to accelerate deployment of the WAGABOX® solution in the countries where the Group operates (France, Spain, Italy, the United States and Canada), and in new target markets.”

Mathieu Lefebvre, Chief Executive Officer of Waga Energy, said: “I am delighted to welcome Yann Pierre, whose contribution to developing the RNG industry, and his personal commitment to the energy transition and the fight against global warming I greatly appreciate. His unique expertise, combined with his international sales and marketing experience, will take Waga Energy to a new milestone in its growth.”

 

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A graduate engineer of Polytech Nancy, Yann Pierre has been involved in the environment, Renewable Natural Gas, and waste-to-energy industry for over twenty years. Prior to joining Waga Energy, Yann was Sales Director for gas solutions at the US group Pentair, which is listed on the New York stock exchange. Before that, from 2014 to 2022, he played a key role in the development of Prodeval – one of France’s leaders in the purification of biogas from anaerobic digestion – serving as Director of Operations, then Sales Director. In earlier years, Yann held a worldwide sales position at Flotech, a New Zealand company specializing in gas and fluids engineering, and was Project Engineer at Urbaser, which specializes in waste treatment and recovery.
Yann Pierre
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