Alexandre Mérieux
The Board of Directors of bioMérieux have approved the appointment of Alexandre Mérieux as Chairman and CEO of the Company, effective immediately.
After serving as Deputy CEO of bioMérieux for the last three years, Alexandre Mérieux succeeds Jean-Luc Bélingard, who had been Chairman and CEO of the company since 2010.
Jean-Luc Bélingard will remain on the bioMérieux Board as a director and will continue to fulfill his responsibilities as Vice President of Institut Mérieux. Working alongside Alain Mérieux, he will be in charge specifically of strategy and institutional relations.
“Watching Alexandre take up the torch of the family business that I created more than 50 years ago, I feel a deep sense of pride,” said Alain Mérieux, Chairman of Institut Mérieux and Founding Chairman of bioMérieux. “We share the same long-term view of the company and its commitment to public health. In various roles at bioMérieux for 12 years, Alexandre has demonstrated his humanity and operational talents, and this has been clearly reflected by the company’s performance during that time. I have great faith in the future of bioMérieux.”
In addition to his role as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of bioMérieux since 2014, Alexandre Mérieux is Vice President of Institut Mérieux and Chairman of Mérieux Développement. He also chairs the Board of Mérieux NutriSciences.
He has held various operational roles and responsibilities within bioMérieux, including Corporate Vice President of the Microbiology Unit from 2011 to 2014, after directing the Industry Unit from 2005 to 2011. From 1999 to 2004, Alexandre Mérieux was in charge of marketing at Silliker Group Corporation in the United States and Europe, after which he became Marketing and Business Unit Director.
Alexandre Mérieux earned a degree in Biology from Lyon I University and is a graduate of HEC Montreal Business School.