Cathy Kopp

Cathy Kopp , born Catherine Pirquin in 1949 with Stamps (in Seine-et-Oise), is a French personality of the business world, current direct of human resources of the hotel group Accor.

Biography

Professional path

Girl of a former workman of Renault, become engineer of the CNAM then tallies leader of SME Norman, it follows studies of mathematics and obtains a control. It returns then to IBM France in 1973 as technical-commercial engineer and climbs the levels quickly of them: head of department, then chief of the technical operations in the Aeronautical agency, where it is present during the negotiation CATIA with the group Dassault, which has a world range.

In 1990, it is named director of the development of the personnel at IBM Europe. In 1992, it returns to IBM France to take the functions of director of human resources. She acquires there a reputation of anybody with comes up, even lasts, during one time when IBM has problems. She was thus called " Madam less sept-sept" in-house at IBM to have asked all the employees of IBM France to agree to decrease their wages of 7,7%,

Others

It is knight of the National order of the Merit.

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