Philippe Martinet was born on July 27th, 1966 in Agen (France).
He graduated as Mechanical and Construction Engineer from INSA Lyon in 1989.
In 1990, he joined CEGELEC Company in Paris, as Design Engineer on the Channel tunnel project between France and UK.
In 1992, he joined the GEC ALSTHOM Group as Engineering and Operation Manager, based in France, developing digital solutions for the Energy sector.
In 1999, he was promoted by ALSTOM as Operations Director for Europe, than later in 2001 for Europe, Middle East and Africa, to lead all Digital Control Systems projects in these Regions. He was mostly based in France. He joined the FIDUCIAL Group in 2003, to become CEO of FIDUCIAL Informatique, a company dedicated to IT solutions development and deployment in small and medium size businesses.
In 2009, he joined the AREVA Group in the Energy and Nuclear sectors and was appointed Middle-East Operations Director, based in Dubai - UAE, to lead all Energy Dispatching Control Centres projects in the GCC.
In 2013, he was appointed Managing Director for North America within the Power Electronics division of ALSTOM group, further integrated in General Electric Company. He was based in Philadelphia – USA for 3 years.
On his return to France, in 2016, he was appointed Managing Director of Air Insulated Switchgear division for Europe by General Electric, working mostly for the Nuclear Power Plants sector.
In 2018, he joined ADP Ingénierie in Paris and moved to Dubai early 2019. Philippe Martinet has been appointed Managing Director for Central Asia, Middle East and Eastern Africa by ADP Ingénierie in July 2019.
ADP Ingénierie, a wholly owned Groupe ADP subsidiary, is a French engineering company that carries out architectural and engineering worldwide activities dealing with design of new airports or existing airports development.
Its teams of experts can accompany a project from the initial design to operational stages and group together multiple skills, from engineering to architecture, studies and the supervision of works.
With 400 employees of 40 nationalities working in 16 different countries, ADP Ingénierie is presently carrying out over 130 projects concurrently worldwide.