Florence Verzelen

Florence Verzelen has been a member of Dassault Systèmes’ Executive Committee since 2018. She oversees Dassault Systèmes’ business development in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), working closely with regional executives and their local management to generate new opportunities in these regions. Florence also heads Dassault Systèmes’ Infrastructure & Cities sector, one of the three sectors (alongside Manufacturing Industries, Life Sciences & Healthcare) served by the company.

Combining these two complementary roles, and with the support of her teams, Florence’s mission is to help Dassault Systèmes’ customers leverage virtualization and 3D UNIV+RSES to become key players in the Generative Economy. She empowers them to boost their competitiveness, create new portfolio of offers, connect all the functions within their organizations, ramp up their operational excellence and scale highly innovative value networks.

Florence joined Dassault Systèmes in 2018 and was first in charge of lndustry, Marketing & 3DEXPERIENCE Edu.  She was the driving force in expanding the Sustainability function at Dassault Systèmes to position the company as a key player in that domain.

Before joining Dassault Systèmes, Florence was working at Engie, a world leader in the energy sector, where she notably led the company’s Business Development, Performance Plan and was COO of Europe & Russia. Before that, she served in the European Commission and the French Administration.

She is also a board member of Nexity (French listed company), Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (France’s Space Agency), France 2030 (Advisory Body of the French Government on its industrial strategy) and the lnstitut Montaigne think tank. Florence is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique / Corps des Mines.