Eurostar board of directors

Gwendoline Cazenave, CEO

Gwendoline Cazenave has extensive expertise in the rail and wider transport industries. After 20 years of experience in the SNCF Group, where she held key positions in Business, Operations, Strategy and Finance, she was a partner at Olivier Wyman, a strategy consulting firm, between 2020 and 2022. She also has significant expertise in corporate governance, through her non-exec roles at the Union Financière de France, Tallano Technologies and Irish Rail. Gwendoline has also led a number of initiatives within gender equality and social and environmental responsibility.

Tanguy Cotte-Martinon

Tanguy Cotte-Martinon joined SNCF in 1997, after studying at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon and Washington University in Saint Louis. He held several positions until 2025, including responsibility for the overhaul of freight production in the Hauts-de-France region and project management for the T11 tram-train line in the Ile-de-France region.

As Chief of Staff to the Chairman of SNCF from 2005 to 2008, he worked successively with Louis Gallois, Anne-Marie Idrac and Guillaume Pepy.

From 2013 to 2015, in Brussels, he transformed Thalys into a fully-fledged rail company, enabling the development of cross-border high-speed services in Northen Europe. For more than two years, as Director of Onboard and Station Services, he then helped SNCF Voaygeurs transfom the jobs of its 16,000 on-board and station staff to improve the customer experience. From 2018 to 2020, he was in charge of the TGV Nord Business Unit and led a major transformation of the high-speed offer to strengthen the customer experience and the competitiveness of the service.

Cécile Derville

Graduate of the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in 1996 and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1997, Cécile Derville began her career in 1998 in the Group SNCF European affairs department. She then turned to more operational positions before working as Project Manager SNCF STIF contract negotiation and Transilien transformation in 2010. She became Director of Transilien N & U lines in 2012 and Project Manager creation of the Mass Transit Academy in 2015. Director of HBK Lines and Paris Nord (2016) Marketing Director, Transilien (2019). After 10 years at Transilien, she joined the world of high speed as Director of TGV East Business Unit until the beginning of 2024. Currently she is Strategic Financial and Legal director of TGV – Intercités

Julien Durif

After several financial and auditing experiences in previous firms, Julien joined the SNCF Group in 2005. He held different financial positions at the headquarters and in the rail freight business unit, before joining the SNCF high-speed passenger division as a CFO in 2020.

Christophe Fanichet

Christophe Fanichet holds degrees from the École Supérieure d’Informatique, Électronique, Automatique engineering school in Paris and from the London Business School. Before he joined SNCF in 2008, he held positions at the French Ministries of Defense and Finance and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Once at SNCF, he served successively as Head of Strategy, Head of Intercités Trains, Chief of staff to SNCF’s Chairman, Chief of communications officer for SNCF Group, and CEO of its subsidiary 574 Invest, which handles investments in mobility start-up. He was appointed Deputy Chief Digital Officer of SNCF Group and CEO of SNCF Voyageurs in 2019. In May 2024, he was renewed as CEO of SNCF Voyageurs.

Olivier Fortin

Olivier Fortin has been involved with Eurostar since CDPQ’s acquisition in 2015. He is currently a Managing Director in the CDPQ Infrastructure team based in London. He is an experienced asset manager and infrastructure investor in the UK and Continental Europe. Aside from Eurostar Group, Olivier currently sits on the board of Heathrow Airport, Streem (railcar and tank container leasing business) and Colisée (nursing home operator). Previously he sat on the board of South East Water and numerous airports.

Jean-Baptiste Guenot

Jean-Baptiste Guenot has been working for the French railway company SNCF ever since 2004. Since January 2018 he has been Head of European Markets & International Development. Before that he was responsible for Corporate Development as well as Mergers & Acquisitions within SNCF group. Guenot had originally started his career doing investments in Paris and Hong Kong. In addition, Jean-Baptiste Guenot works as Non-Executive Director in several international boards.

Emma Howell

Emma Howell joined the Board in March 2022. Emma is Co-Head of the Infrastructure team at Federated Hermes, having previously been Head of Asset Management. Emma is responsible for all aspects of the investment team activities at Federated Hermes Infrastructure and is a member of the Infrastructure Investment Committee. As well as Eurostar, Emma represents infrastructure mandates on various portfolio company boards, including Cadent Gas and Iridium Hermes Roads.Emma was previously a Director at Deloitte LLP and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Alain Krakovitch

Alain Krakovitch is the director of TGV-Intercités – SNCF Voyageurs since March 2020, which has a fleet of 415 trains and carries 156 million passengers a year. His portfolio includes TGV INOUI, OUIGO and Intercités, OUIGO España, and many other activities such as Eurostar, Lyria, SVI (Italy) etc.

He began his career 30 years ago at SNCF, is an expert in Mass Transit (he was the Director of Transilien - 3.5 million passengers a day) and created the Mass Transit Academy with KEOLIS. At TGV-Intercités, his focus is on increased revenue and traffic, on performance in a competitive market, and on Customer Service. Development in Europe is a central objective of SNCF Voyageurs' ambitions.

Renaud Lorand

Renaud Lorand is currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at SNCB (National Railway Company of Belgium), a position he has held since January 2021. He also serves as a board member at several institutions, including Eurostar Group, skeyes (formerly Belgocontrol, the company responsible for air traffic control in Belgium), and P&V Insurance.

Renaud holds a degree in commercial engineering with a specialization in finance and accounting from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in Brussels. He has extensive leadership and governance experience, notably as director of the intermunicipal organisation IDEA (Mons), chief of staff to the Minister-President and the Minister of Economy in the Walloon government, and chairman of the board of directors of skeyes.

His current mandates and responsibilities also include management roles or board participation in both the railway and aviation sectors, reflecting his strong expertise in governance and financial management within large public enterprises.

Christophe Ozanne

Christophe Ozanne was appointed to the Eurostar Group Board in September 2022. He has nearly 20 years of experience at SNCF and is currently Director of Northern Europe Markets within TGV-IC at SNCF Voyageurs. He was formerly in charge of the Groupe SNCF and SNCF Voyageurs Commitment Board from 2019 to 2022 and was beforehand Chief Financial Officer of SNCF’s subsidiary Retail & Connexions from 2015 to 2019. He also held positions in finance, strategy, and management in various entities

Olivier Piron

Olivier has been a Eurostar Board member since June 2023 when he joined SNCB as Head of International Strategy, in charge of partnerships and business development. Olivier has an extended financial and management experience, from PWC to Engie until 2017 when he started his own management consulting business both in Belgium and internationally.

Lucy Sinclair

Lucy Sinclair is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor, she joined Eurostar as NED in June 2025. She is also NED for Ambassador Cruise Lines, for Il Lanificio Retail and Board Advisor for BHID Group. Prior to her NED portfolio, she held senior roles as Google’s Director of Business Analysis, Data and Research for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Director of Audiences and Media at the Royal Opera House, London; Chief Marketing Officer at JPI Media Group; and Director of Marketing & Audiences at the BBC where she launched new digital services including BBC iPlayer. She has particular interest in organisational design and culture, alongside her consumer, digital and marketing expertise.