Board of Directors   Gilles Colas General Delegate for Saint-Gobain North America President and CEO, Saint-Gobain Corporation Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Gilles Colas became Saint-Gobain’s General Delegate for North America in January 2009.  He transferred to the U.S. from Asia-Pacific, where he was Saint-Gobain General Delegate.

Mr. Colas joined Saint-Gobain in 1973.  He held a variety of management posts within the company’s Flat Glass Division, before being appointed General Manager, Saint-Gobain Columbia, in 1980. 

From 1982 to 1986, Mr. Colas was Vice President, Industrial & Commercial Policy, for the Flat Glass Division.  In 1986, he became Chairman of Vegla (Germany) and Director of Saint-Gobain’s Flat Glass business for Germany, Eastern and Northern Europe. 

Mr. Colas was named Vice President of Corporate Planning for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, based in Paris, in 1992.

From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Colas was President of Saint-Gobain’s Building Materials Division.  He was then in charge of the Abrasives Division until 2003, when he was appointed Saint-Gobain General Delegate for Asia-Pacific.

Mr Colas has been a member of the General Management Committee of the Saint-Gobain Group since 1992.  He has a degree in civil engineering from Ponts et Chaussées (France) and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University (United States). 

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