Governance

Matthieu Chabanel

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Matthieu Chabanel began his career in the field of water resource management at the Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie. In 2006, he joined the Ministry of Transport as Deputy Director of inland and coastal ports, before becoming Director of ports and inland waterway transport in 2008. In August 2010, Matthieu Chabanel was appointed technical adviser on transport, infrastructure and urban planning issues to the office of the French Prime Minister. In April 2012, he joined Réseau Ferré de France as Assistant CEO, responsible for commercial relations, regulation and network planning. In 2014, in the context of the creation of SNCF Réseau, Matthieu Chabanel became Assistant CEO for Maintenance and Works. In 2018, he was appointed Deputy CEO and took charge of the company's industrial and technical performance. Finally, from 2020 to June 2022, he was Deputy CEO for Projects, Maintenance and Operations, with responsibility over all the company's operational teams. He will take over as head of SNCF Réseau in October 2022.

Alain Quinet

Deputy CEO and Managing Director of Strategy & Corporate Affairs

A graduate of Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and École Nationale d’Administration, Alain Quinet held a variety of government positions in economics and finance from 1988 onwards. In 2002 he was appointed economic adviser to the French Prime Minister, and in 2005 he joined the Prime Minister’s office as deputy chief of staff for economic affairs. In 2007, he was appointed inspector general for finance and became a member of the board of directors of Réseau Ferré de France (RFF). From 2008 to 2010, he was chief financial officer at Caisse des Dépôts Group and chairman of CDC Infrastructure. In December 2010, Alain Quinet became RFF’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He has also been a member of France’s Economic Council for Sustainable Development since 2008 and a member of the French National Economic Commission since 2010.

Olivier Bancel

Deputy CEO and Managing Director of Projects, Maintenance & Industrial Performance

A graduate of Telecom Paris Tech, Olivier Bancel joined SNCF in 1993 as a project leader in the Research division, moving on to a series of mainly operations-focused positions in network maintenance, on high-speed lines and in the Rhône-Alpes region. He later served as project leader for the Haut-Bugey line in central France, deputy director of infrastructure for the Southern region, and director of network maintenance for South-eastern France. From 2016 to 2018, Olivier Bancel headed asset management and digital technology at Systra, SNCF’s engineering subsidiary, subsequently returning to SNCF Réseau.

Vincent Téton

Assistant General Manager Operations and Production

A graduate of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Vincent Téton has held various positions within the SNCF since joining the group in 1994. He has held a number of positions in infrastructure establishments (Montpellier, Paris Sud-Est), in passenger establishments (Nancy, Paris-Montparnasse) and in central management, notably as Sales Director at SNCF Voyage and Director of Passenger Information. In 2013, he joined SNCF Réseau as Director of Maintenance and Works for the South-East, before becoming Director of the TER for the Grand Est region at SNCF Mobilités in 2016. Since 2019, he has been Director of the South-East Production Area.

Séverine Lepère

General Manager Ile-de-France

A graduate of the École Centrale de Paris and the University of Kent in the UK, Séverine Lepère joined SNCF in 1997. She has held various operational management positions in the Paris Nord region, in infrastructure, with transport companies and as Director of the Gare du Nord. Director of lines B and K from 2005 to 2012, she contributed to the transformation of RER B operations, notably through the implementation of a single command centre. She continued her career as head of strategic negotiations, notably at Transilien where she negotiated and steered the contract between the company and the Île-de-France Organising Authority - the most important one in the SNCF group. Director of Network Modernisation and Development at Île-de-France General Management since 2020, she pilots development projects that will enable the Île-de-France network to meet the challenges of mass transit.

Isabelle Delon

Chief Clients and Services Officer

Isabelle Delon graduated from ESCP Business School and joined SNCF in 1991 as a marketing research analyst. She went on to hold several sales management positions in the Loire region and Normandy, and in 2002 became chief of staff at our regional division in Normandy. She moved to the Group’s HR Division in 2004, heading its executive recruitment and creating a customer-oriented culture. In 2007 she joined SNCF Voyages as leader of the e-ticket project and became sales director in 2010. In 2014 she was chosen to lead SNCF’s Shared HR Services Centres (later Optim HR Services), created to deliver quality services to the Group’s employees. Isabelle Delon joined SNCF Réseau in 2017 to head up its efforts to prepare for the open passenger market.

Damien Pallant

Deputy Chief Safety Officer

A graduate of the École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile and the holder of an Executive Masters from Sciences Po and St Andrews University, Damien Pallant has spent most of his career at Air France, where he held various operational and transformation management posts, progressing from co-pilot to Operational Performance Director in 22 years. He joined SNCF in 2016 as Group Deputy Chief Safety Officer. In March 2020 he was appointed to the SNCF Voyageurs executive committee as Chief Safety Officer for SNCF Voyageurs. He has undertaken a transformation of the company’s safety culture, making SNCF Voyageurs a lead firm for the implementation of the regulatory framework for the fourth European railway package regarding safety.

Anne Bosche-Lenoir

Chief Finance & Procurement Officer

A graduate of École Nationale d’Administration and Haute École de Commerce, Anne Bosche-Lenoir began her career at the French Finance Ministry. After several years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, she was appointed deputy director of the Finance Ministry’s budget division in 1999. In 2003, she moved to the Île-de-France Regional Council, where her work included helping to create STIF (now Île-de-France Mobilités), the organizing authority for the Paris public transport network. Ms Bosche-Lenoir joined SNCF in 2013 to lead the Group’s Audit and Risk Division, and later supervised onboarding of nearly 20,000 employees at our TER regional rail unit. From 2016, she served as TER’s deputy director, leading its talks with regional governments, overseeing transformation of its operations and preparing it for liberalisation of the contract transport market.

Florence Dartiguepeyrou

Chief Communications Officer

Florence Dartiguepeyrou holds a Maîtrise in Classics, a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in Art History and a Mastère in Media from ESCP Business School. She began her career as a special advisor at Canal+ before joining the group’s digital subsidiary. From 2002 onwards she held various positions at consulting agencies, where she did communications work for several large companies, local and regional authorities and agencies of the French State, specialising in health, transport, banking and CSR. In 2015 she became Company Secretary at an independent communications agency where she had previously been head of the Branding division, before supporting the agency’s development by managing organizational, legal and HR matters. At the same time, from 2008 to 2019 she contributed to the work of the Sustainable Development Committee of the French Association of Communications Consulting Agencies (AACC). She joined SNCF Réseau in 2019 as head of internal and external communications. Reporting to CEO Luc Lallemand, Florence Dartiguepeyrou will be tasked with developing outreach strategies for all the business’ external and internal stakeholders.

Misoo Yoon

Chief Human Resources Officer

A graduate from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence and a local government administrator, Misoo Yoon began her career as Director of Finance within a local authority. In 2009, she joined the French Inspectorate General of Finance where she was involved in auditing, consulting and public policy evaluation. In 2012, she joined Pôle emploi, the French public employment service, which was then embarking on a major strategic transformation of its services to users, its organisation and its performance management, while accelerating its digital transition. Successively, she held the positions of Director of Strategy and of Network Management. In 2016, she was appointed Deputy Director General in charge of the Pôle Emploi service offering. She was responsible for designing and implementing the services available to jobseekers (providing career development advice, developing access to vocational training, implementing a skills approach, indemnities), companies (recruitment services), digital strategy, innovation, partnerships and international relations. To support these structural changes, she introduced some ambitious change management systems.

Zélia Césarion

Chief of Staff

Zélia Césarion graduated from the Sorbonne with a degree in political communications. In 2010 she joined the office of France’s Housing Minister, serving as communications coordinator and later as press secretary. Two years later, she moved to the French National Assembly, acting as Parliamentary Assistant to the former Housing Minister, now representing the département of Marne in the Chamber of Deputies. During the same period, she served as Deputy Secretary General for Communications of the French Association of Parliamentary Aides (AFCP). In May 2017, she became Chief Press Secretary to the French Prime Minister, handling communications and media relations. On 15 October 2020 she joined SNCF Réseau, succeeding Radia Ouarti as Chief of Staff to the Chairman.