Patrick Colas des Francs

General Manager, Coges. He attended the Army Officer Academy of Saint-Cyr and was commissioned into the Armour (Recce). He took part in many operations in Chad, Central Africa, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kosovo. He was assigned as the commander of the French Army Training Centre. In 2007, he decided to leave the Army and became the Chief Executive Officer of Coges, a company managing the Eurosatory Exhibition and organizing the French pavilions on other exhibitions in the world. He graduated from COSSAT, the Senior Armaments Engineers School, and from the École de guerre de Paris.