Biography
Philippe Géry has 20 years of experience, mainly in the port and maritime sector. He has started his career in the leadership program of General Electric, holding different positions in the USA and Europe (France, Belgium and Spain). He then moved to the port and maritime sector working for Portek. Over the course of 10 years, was involved in port equipment sales and purchase, concession agreements and business plans, as well as business development in Mediterranean area and Africa. He was also the CEO of Portek’s subsidiary in Gabon (GPM) , where he was responsible for the management of the two commercial ports of Gabon, their investments in infrastructure, invoicing, business development, pilotage, towage.
In 2014, he joined GSEZ-Olam Gabon, as head of Ports Gabon, in charge of the development of ports in Gabon. He has worked on the modelling, business plan and follow of the execution of two ports, a bulk terminal and a commercial port, for a total investment of 400M€. Both ports have been put in operations in less than 3 years, more than doubling the capacity of the ports in Gabon, by introducing new equipment and new methodologies.
In 2017, he founded AGPS together with Pradeep Avadhani.