Frédéric is a Naval Architect with degrees from both France’s ENSTA Bretagne and USA’s MIT.

After a few years in French Navy Surface Ship Design Office, now part of Naval Group, on the design of The Aircraft Carrier and several other vessels, he joined GTT (designer and licensor of membrane cargo containment system) in 1998 were he hold several managing positions in Commercial and Engineering.

He moved to ENGIE in 2011 and became Business Developer in the LNG Division. He focused on small scale prospects and joined in 2016 the corporate Small Scale LNG Key Program to develop new tools and new offers, focusing on LNG2Power, distribution to islands and BioLNG.

After the acquisition in 2018 of the LNG Division by TOTAL, now TotalEnergies, he joined the LNG Shipping Department where, as Senior Project Manager, he provided technical expertise on several projects, pursued the assessment of LNG2Power solutions and launched Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) assessment studies.

In 2020 he became Innovation Officer for the LNG Division, adding Digital in 2021 and focusing on decarbonization of the LNG chain and development of new markets.