Christophe Gregoir is a Sales and Marketing Director from Belgium with over 30 years of experience in welding, automotive sales, and management. He currently works at ESAB Holdings Ltd in London as the Sales & Marketing Director for France, Benelux, and Export. Prior to this role, he held several management and sales positions within ESAB across Europe. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and has completed several leadership and business management courses.

1. EUROPEAN
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal information
Name Christophe Gregoir
Address Sterrenlaan 30, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Telephone +32 3 448 12 71
Mobile +32 478 21 99 91
E-mail(home) christophe.gregoir@skynet.be
Nationality Belgian
Date of birth 17.04.1965
Work experience
• Dates
December 2000 onwards
• Name and address of employer ESAB Holdings Ltd, 322 High Holborn, London WC1V 7PB, UK
• Type of business or sector Welding & Cutting
• Occupation or position held -Sales & Marketing Director, Region France Benelux Export (2009-ytd)
-Global Segment Manager Transport, Central Marketing Senior
Management (2008-2009)
-Member of the European Management Team (2004-2007).
-Additional responsibility for the development of robotic sales in Europe
(2003-2007).
-Sales & Marketing Manager Automotive, Europe (2002-2007).
-Global Key Account Manager (2000-2002).
• Main activities and responsibilities Sales & Marketing Director, Region France BeNeLux Export :
President of ESAB France SAS, managing a team of 104 persons to
achieve the P&L objectives for the company for the 4 different product
departments. Strong focus on restructuring and increasing the efficiency of
the region overall. Delivering growth opportunities in the French speaking
countries of North-Africa and developing the distributor channel in France
BeNeLux.
Global Segment Manager Transport : Managing Pan-European agreements
with global Key Accounts mainly in the Automotive segment. Developing
and implementing the right business-strategy for this segment through the
development of segment-oriented products and the daily management of a
Strategic Key Account Team. Managing the product development and sales
of the robotic arc welding business in Europe since 2003 adressed to
Partner-integrators and end-customers. Officially appointed as member of
the European Sales and Marketing Team since May 2004.

2. • Dates June 1996 – November 2000
• Name and address of employer Halle Motors nv, Brusselsesteenweg 480, B-1500 Halle
• Type of business or sector Automotive
• Occupation or position held Managing Director RV Motors
Managing director of the Mitsubishi car dealership RV Motors, which was
part of the Halle Motors nv company. The management of a profit & loss
• Main activities and responsibilities operation included the sales of 130 new and 100 second-hand cars (1999),
the management of the after-sales service (Service- and Body-repair shop)
achieved by a team of 5.passioned members.
• Dates
August 1992 – May 1996
• Name and address of employer ESAB nv, Jules Bordetlaan 15, B-1140 Brussels
• Type of business or sector Welding & Cutting
• Occupation or position held Sales Engineer / Distributor Sales Manager
• Main activities and responsibilities Sales responsible for the whole product-range for the area of Antwerp
during 3 years. Promoted to Distributor Sales Manager for Belgium in 1995,
I was in charge of all the sales- and marketing activities through the
channel of distributors. After the definition and implementation of a
distributor standard profile, we created a support-team in order to build-up a
long-term and trustful win-win relation.
• Dates September 1989 – July 1992
• Name and address of employer L’Oxhydrique Internationale (Messer Griesheim Industriegase Gmbh)
• Type of business or sector Chemical Industry
• Occupation or position held Application Engineer
Product Manager for all gases used in the welding-industry, as well as the
• Main activities and responsibilities special and high-purity gases used in the medical-industry. Technical and
marketing support to the sales-force.
Education and training
• Dates 16 h - 27h of April 2011
• Name and type of organization
ESAB, Richmond, London UK
providing education and training
• Principal subject 21st Century Leadership Development Programme
• Dates 31st – 4th of November 2005/2nd-4th of May 2006
• Name and type of organization
Henley Management College, Oxfordshire, UK
providing education and training
• Principal subject Leadership Development Programme and Finance
• Dates 20th-24th of October 2003
• Name and type of organization
Management Centre Europe, rue de l’Aqueduc 118, B-1150 Brussels
providing education and training
• Principal subject The 5-day mini MBA
• Dates 5th –7th of June 2002

3. • Name and type of organization
Management Centre Europe, rue de l’Aqueduc 118, B-1150 Brussels
providing education and training
• Principal subject Effective Presentation Skills
• Dates Jan-02
• Name and type of organization Association Belge du Soudage/Belgische vereniging voor Lastechniek,
providing education and training Diamant Building, Blvd A.Reyerslaan 80, B-1030 Brussels.
• Principal subject European Welding Engineer
• Dates 27th – 29th of June 2001
• Name and type of organization
Management Centre Europe, rue de l’ Aqueduc 118, B-1150 Brussels.
providing education and training
• Principal subject Value-added Marketing and Sales Strategies
• Dates May-96
• Name and type of organization
Atlas Business Training nv, Cogels Osylei 81, B-2600 Antwerpen .
providing education and training
• Principal subject Sales Attitudes
• Dates September 1984 - June 1989
• Name and type of organization
KIH De Nayer, J.De Nayerlaan 5, B-2860 St.-Katelijne-Waver
providing education and training
• Principal subject Industrial Engineer Electro-Mechanics (Bachelor Degree)
• Dates September 1983 - June 1984
• Name and type of organization
St.Jan Berghmanscollege, Jodenstraat 11, B-2000 Antwerpen
providing education and training
• Principal subject 1 academic year in Mathematics
• Dates September 1977 - June 1983
• Name and type of organization
St.Stanislascollege, F.De Merodestraat 34, B-2600 Berchem
providing education and training
• Principal subject Secondary School, division Latin-Mathematics
Personal skills
and competences
languages French (Mother Tongue) Dutch English German
• Reading skills Excellent Excellent Excellent Good
• Writing skills Excellent Excellent Excellent Good
• Verbal skills Excellent Excellent Excellent Good
Social skills
and competences
Raised up in a family of 4 children, we have been active in youth-
movements (UPB, Antwerpen) and team-sports (HHC, Lier) since our

4. childhood. Convinced about the importance to work or play in a team, I’m
coaching today my daughter’s field hockey team.
To travel and to work in a global company, makes you really understand
that you need to position yourself in a flexible way and that each market-
approach needs to be adapted from region to region. Curious to learn
always more about different cultures and to share this vision with my family,
my next challenge would be to find a professional opportunity abroad.
Organizational skills
and competences
Graduated as Electro-mechanical Engineer, you are instructed to have an
analytical view on all kinds of problems or situations.
Managing a team is all about communication, organization and motivation
of your personnel. Mastering these skills creates a positive and
comprehensive working environment to all concerned colleagues.
Organizing different seminars within the Automotive and organizing internal
meetings to have all different departments in line with the objectives, is part
of my daily work.
Technical skills
and competences
Very interested in all mechanical sports, I ride myself the motorbike since my a
Regarding computers I use on a daily base MS Office and Lotus Notes.
Artistic skills
and competences
Unfortunately as children, we’ve not been instructed to play a music
instrument. Today I would love to play in a band in between friends. Aware
of this, I give my children today the opportunity in playing the piano and do
hope in silence that they will persevere in playing the instrument.
Additional information
Lecturer from 1991 to 1996 at the KIH De Nayer and the Belgian Welding
Institute for the course “Gasflame Applications” for the graduation of
European Welding Engineer.

5. Some major projects &
achievements
1.Sales:
Customers Subject Revenues
France Benelux Revenue-increase of 13% for 2011versus 2010 70 €Mio
Faurecia Seating European contract 1.2 €Mio
Faurecia Exhausts Global contract 3.2 €Mio
Tenneco European contract 0.5 €Mio
Tenneco Exhausts European contract 1.2 €Mio
Benteler Contracts for South- and North-Europe 4.5 €Mio
Magnetto-group European contract 0.8 €Mio
ACI-Renault European contract 1.6 €Mio
PSA Approval manual and robot welding packages 0.5€Mio
Motoman European contract robot packages 0.9€Mio
ABB European contract robot packages 1.7€Mio
2.Management-projects:
R&D projects
Creation of the SAT-Process for robotic welding and the related launch process
Production of Ferritic stainless solid wires for the Exhaust-business
Launch of robotic arc welding Packages for thin sheet welding applications
Launch in Europe of Aluminium welding wire in bulk packaging
Leadership & Management projects
The developement of a dynamic Management team to embrace new sales-channels (Inside Sales, Value
Selling)
The business development of the Maghreb countries through the development of a dsitributor network
The move of offices in Belgium and The Netherlands to create the ESAB Academy for education purposes
Restructuring of the France benelux region from 104 to 73 people
Creation of a central European Automotive team to address Automotive key accounts/robotic arc welding
packages.
Creation of global Partnerships with ABB and Motoman.
Creation of ESAB Consulting and Audit-programs to run Productivity projects at KA
Manage global RFQ’s of KA like Tower Automotive, GKN, Caterpillar,VW,...
Organization of local Automotive seminars through the whole of Europe
Adress local resources, KPI’s and a time-frame activity-plan to achieve the sales-target related to welding
consumables and welding equipment.
Creation of Application reports and Partner log-in on the web
Creation of sales-tools (Automotive CD) on the Intranet, including a European price-list for the local sales-
force