{"id":1313,"date":"2021-02-01T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gco.eramet.com\/uncategorized\/benoit-robitaille-appointed-ceo-of-gco\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:46:58","slug":"benoit-robitaille-appointed-ceo-of-gco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grande-cote.eramet.com\/en\/benoit-robitaille-appointed-ceo-of-gco\/","title":{"rendered":"Beno\u00eet Robitaille appointed CEO of GCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1468.8px;margin-left: calc(-2% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-2% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.47%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.47%;--awb-width-medium:66.666666666667%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.47%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.47%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0.98%;--awb-spacing-left-small:0.98%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>On Thursday, January 28, the GCO Board of Directors approved the appointment of Beno\u00eet Robitaille as CEO of GCO.<\/p>\n<p>For personal reasons, <strong>Michel Priv\u00e9<\/strong> decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer of GCO and return to Canada. He will step down on January 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of <strong>Beno\u00eet Robitaille<\/strong> as <strong>Chief Executive Officer<\/strong>, effective on February 1<sup><\/sup>, 2021, was proposed and accepted by the GCO Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Eramet\u2019s management team sincerely thanks Michel for his dedication to GCO and the Group. Since his arrival, thanks to his leadership and personal values, Michel managed to deliver excellent operational, financial, and safety results with the teams at GCO, while strengthening social ties. He also led GCO through a very difficult health crisis, while maintaining a safe and constructive environment for the site and its teams.<\/p>\n<p>Beno\u00eet joined GCO on July 15, 2018 as Chief Technical Officer, and was later appointed Deputy CEO on September 1<sup><\/sup>, 2019, which led him to step in for Michel on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>For two years, he has been deeply involved in GCO\u2019s operations, and has worked closely with the CEO and COO to develop the CTO role, which has become essential to improving operational and technical performance and project management.<\/p>\n<p>He will now focus on continuing the company\u2019s growth with his teams, while working with stakeholders to ensure this growth is beneficial for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Beno\u00eet holds a Master\u2019s degree in Applied Science and a PhD in Chemical Engineering. Before joining GCO and Eramet, he worked for nearly 20 years for Rio Tinto Fer et Titane. He has held numerous responsibilities on various sites as Mine Manager, Project Director, Operations Manager, and Engineering Director, among others. This work has afforded him excellent technical expertise, substantial project management skills, and extensive managerial experience.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[109,129,101],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-appointment","tag-benoit-robitaille-en","tag-governance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beno\u00eet Robitaille appointed CEO of GCO - Eramet Grande C\u00f4te<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grande-cote.eramet.com\/en\/benoit-robitaille-appointed-ceo-of-gco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beno\u00eet Robitaille appointed CEO of GCO - 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