Louis Dreyfus names new CEO
Written by Nick Blenkey
Kamil Beffa
France’s Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has named Kamil Beffa as CEO in a change of management structure that the family-owned company describes as creating a “new organization, oriented towards the future and committed to increasingly technical and innovative businesses.”
Beffa, who joined LDA in 2019 as deputy CEO, succeeds Gildas Maire who is stepping down after 30 years with the group to become advisor to the chairman of the executive board, Edouard Louis-Dreyfus.
In other moves, Antoine Person and Antoine d’Anjou and have both been appointed deputy CEOs and members of the executive board.
Person has spent his entire career within the group. After several years in the dry bulk business, he was appointed general secretary in 2003. D’Anjou joined the Group in April 2021, as Chief Financial Officer after a career in France and internationally within the Technip and Systra groups.
With more than 2,600 employees and around 100 vessels, LDA is active across a broad range of shipping sectors including dry bulk. Well-known for its role in transporting Airbus components and assemblies it has recently become a major player in offshore wind support activities.
