Axens, Rueil-Malmaison, France, has named Jean Sentenac as chairman and chief executive officer, and Jean-Pierre Franck as chief operating officer.
Sentenac joined IFP in 2000 and had been executive vice-president of the technical service, technology and marketing departments, as well as a services group, since the creation of Axens in 2001. He began his career at Air Liquide in Spain and Italy, then joined the Rhône-Poulenc Group, and was managing director of Rhodia's Life Science Chemicals in 1998. He is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs.
Franck previously served as executive vice-president for Axens' catalysts and adsorbents business unit.
Axens, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French Institute of Petroleum (IFP), was formed as a result of the merger of IFP's Industrial Division, and Procatalyse. Axens integrates the activities of process licensing, process design, catalyst and adsorbent manufacturing, and services for the refining, petrochemicals and gas industries.
