Fabrice Billard has been selected as the new CEO of Burckhardt Compression, effective April 1, 2022, the beginning of the company’s next fiscal year. Billard will succeed Marcel Pawlicek, who will remain committed to Burckhardt Compression throughout the handover process.
Billard has led the Systems business of Burckhardt Compression since 2016. He began his career at Hay Management and Boston Consulting Group. In 2004 he joined Sulzer. After heading the global customer services at the Pumps division, he became responsible for the Chemtech Mass Transfer Business. In this position, he served the hydrocarbon processing industry. He joined Burckhardt Compression’s Systems Division as president and has been the key driver of Burckhardt’s ongoing the hydrogen mobility and energy initiative.
“The board is very pleased to have found an excellent successor as the CEO for Burckhardt Compression,” said Ton Büchner, board chair at Burckhardt.” Fabrice Billard’s leadership skills and his knowledge of both the project driven Systems business as well as the Services activities, in our relevant markets, will make him perfectly suitable to bring Burckhardt Compression forward into the next stage of its ongoing success. We thank Marcel very much for his more than 40 years of service, the last ten as CEO of the company.”
