Jean-Pascal Tricoire

Jean-Pascal Tricoire (born 1963) is a French business executive. Tricoire is the chairman of Schneider Electric, and served as the company's CEO from 2006 to 2023.

Early career
After working at Alcatel, Schlumberger and Saint-Gobain between 1985 and 1986, Tricoire joined Merlin Gerin in 1986. In 1992, Merlin Gerin was acquired by Schneider Electric.

From 1988 to 1999, Tricoire developed the company's activity abroad, working in Italy for five years (1989-1994). Then, he worked in China for other five years (1994-1999) before managing operations in South Africa.

He then served in corporate functions as Head of Schneider Electric's Global Strategic Accounts and of the Schneider 2000+ program. From January 2002 to the end of 2003, he became Executive Vice President of the International Division, covering the company's business outside of North America and Europe.

Leadership of Schneider Electric
In May 2013, Tricoire was appointed Chairman and CEO of Schneider Electric, following a change in the governance of the company. In May 2023, Tricoire stepped down as CEO of the company but remained its chairman.

Boards and organizations
Tricoire is a director of the worldwide board of the UN Global Compact.

Tricoire also represents Schneider as a UN HeForShe Corporate IMPACT champion working with other heads of state, universities and companies to advance gender equality. Under his leadership, Schneider has gone from 3% representation of women in leadership 15 years ago, to 20% representation today, with a goal to make that at least 30% by 2020.

Since 2019, he has been a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

He is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).

He has represented Schneider Electric in Russia's Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC).

He has been member of the board of director of Qualcomm since 2020.

Recognition
In 2019, Jean-Pascal Tricoire was named one of the top 100 Top Performing Chief Executives by the Harvard Business Review (HBR), ranking at #48. The list analyzes companies listed in the S&P Global 1200, based on financial data, total shareholder return, and change in market capitalization.

In 2007, Tricoire became a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur).

Personal life
Jean-Pascal Tricoire is married and has three children. He speaks French, English, Italian and Chinese.