A Change in Leadership for FPInnovations, Paper360º November/December 2018

Although he spent close to two decades working with industrial giant GE, the pulp and paper industry was not unfamiliar to Stéphane Renou when he took over as presIdent and CEO of FPInnovations in late 2017.

While studying toward his Ph.D. in Quebec, Renou did part of his studies at the Montreal-based research institute then known as Paprican, working in the fields of bleaching and process control. (FPInnovations was the result of a 2007 merger among three Canadian forest products industry research institutes: Paprican, FERIC, and Forintek.)

As his studies came to an end, Renou knew his career had two possible paths: academia or industry. GE felt Renou was better suited to industry and approached him to join the company, where he worked in GE’s US research center before heading to Florence, Italy, and then back to the US where he spent the next 17 years.

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