About

Benoit Balmary oversees the 20 legal departments housed within global automotive giant Michelin Group. Balmary took up his current position of group general counsel in 2014 and has since won widespread praise for helping to improve communications both within the various legal teams and between legal and business functions. Under his watch, observers have noted, the legal team operates as a best-in-class support centre for day-to-day matters while also retaining its ability to resource highly technical matters. Balmary began his career in-house in 1994 with the Renault Group as a lawyer for international contracts and was promoted to assistant legal director in 1995. In 1999 he served as the head of finance and security law before moving to the role of senior corporate lawyer at Alcatel-Lucent in 2001, subsequently rising to the rank of general counsel. He joined Dassault Systémes in 2006 as legal director.