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INTRODUCTION MANAGEMENT APPROACH
MANAGEMENT TEAM
1 Stéphane Ulcoq
Group CEO and Executive Director
Mr Stéphane Ulcoq, born in 1977, joined the Company as Assistant Works Manager in September 2000 and was promoted to Workshop Manager in 2007. In January 2012, he was promoted to the post of Production Manager where he oversaw all production units, both in Mauritius and overseas, and in December, the Board appointed him as Deputy CEO. He then gradually handed over his duties as Production Manager and was appointed CEO of the Company in January 2015 and subsequently, Group CEO with effect from July 2015.
GROUP FUNCTIONS
2 Laurent Béga
Group Engineering Manager
Mr Laurent Béga, born in 1979, joined the Company as Group Engineering Manager in May 2014. He has since been responsible for all engineering services, machinery maintenance and supplies, as well as projects, both in Mauritius and overseas, where his expertise in heavy machinery and experience in Africa have been invaluable to the Group.
Cécile Boyer
Group Financial Controller
Ms Cécile Boyer, born in 1989, joined the Company as Group Financial Controller in April 2020. Ms Boyer holds a Master in Management with a specialisation in Finance from Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France. She has ten years of experience in the field of Finance in Mauritius and abroad.
Alan Cunniah
Group Human Resource Manager
5 Bryan Gujjalu
Group Chief Strategy Officer
Mr Bryan Gujjalu, born in 1976, holds a « Diplôme d’Ingénieur » from INSA Lyon (MEng) and an MBA from the « Institut d’Administration des Entreprises » (IAE), France. He is also a Certified Registered Professional Engineer and EUR ING Engineer and a Certified Practitioner Coach (Business and Life). He previously worked in the APAVE Group for 12 years, and he left as CEO of APAVE Indian Ocean Group and Deputy MD of APAVE Internationalfor the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean-Australia region. He also served as Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (MIoD), and member of its Audit and Risk Committee. From 2014 he worked in the Financial Sector (private equity and listing on the Stock Exchange). In March 2017, he joined the Company as Group Business Development Manager, in charge of the international subsidiaries, Mergers and Acquisitions, Group transformation initiatives and strategic projects. He was nominated as Group Chief Strategy Officer in July 2022.
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Mr Gino Gunness, born in 1967, holds a ‘Brevet de Technicien en Fabrication et Maintenance Mécanique’ from the Lycée Polytechnique Sir Guy Forget in Flacq, Mauritius. He also followed several training courses in stone crushing equipment maintenance and management. He joined the Company as Technical Assistant for the maintenance of crushing plants in July 1989 and was promoted to the post of Plant Manager in 1991. He managed several plants within the Group, including Welcome Industries in Rodrigues, until 2003. Between 2004 and 2011, he was expatriated to Madagascar to act as General Manager of UBP Madagascar. Back in Mauritius in 2012, he was appointed Assistant Production Manager before being promoted to the post of Service Manager of the Heavy Machinery department of our Engineering Division in 2013. In April 2017, he was promoted to the post of Group Procurement and Assets Manager. Since September 2019, he is supporting the management of UBP Madagascar from Mauritius with some close monitoring from time to time in Madagascar.
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UBP INTEGRATED REPORT 2022
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Mr Alan Cunniah, born in 1968, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Calgary, Canada and an MBA specialising in Human Resource Management from the University of Mauritius. Prior to joining the Group in July 2018, he worked as Head of Human Resources for ENL group for ten years.
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Gino Gunness
Group Procurement and Assets Manager
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