NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France and FORT
LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 9, 2017 /
PRNewswire/ -- Bureau Veritas (Euronext
Paris: BVI), a world leader in laboratory
testing, inspection and certification services,
today announced the appointment of Natalia
Shuman as Executive Vice President, North
America for the Group's Commodities and
Industry & Facilities division, effective April 10,
2017.
Ms. Shuman will lead a team of approximately
5,000 people in 130 locations across the
United States and Canada. She will be
responsible for expanding the Group's
presence in North America, one of its core
regions, and achieving other of its 2020
strategic goals. Ms. Shuman, who will be the
first woman to join the Executive Committee
of Bureau Veritas, will be located at the
Group's Fort Lauderdale, Florida office.
Ms. Shuman brings to Bureau Veritas
extensive management, sales and operational
experience gained in key roles at an
international level. She joins the Group from
Kelly Services, the workforce solutions
provider, where she was senior vice president
and general manager for the company's EMEA
and APAC regions.
"As the leader of our Commodities and Industry
& Facilities division in North America, Natalia
Shuman will hold a key position within our
Group. Her experience in human resources,
management and corporate development, at an
international level, will help drive the
transformation of the Group and accelerate the
implementation of our 2020 strategic plan in
North America," said Didier Michaud-Daniel,
Chief Executive Officer of Bureau Veritas.
"I am very pleased to be joining Bureau Veritas.
To me, this means embracing new challenges in
a global company that represents trust,
excellence and innovation, and that has great
ambitions to make the world a safer place. I am
excited about the growth opportunity that North
America represents," stated Natalia Shuman.
Ms. Shuman is succeeding Pedro Paulo
Guimaraes, who is leaving the company to
pursue new professional opportunities.
Additional Biographical Information
Natalia Shuman is a global executive with
more than 20 years of management and
operational experience in the HR services,
outsourcing and staffing industries. Before
joining Bureau Veritas, Ms. Shuman was in
charge of Kelly Services' APAC and EMEA
regions. She also served as a board member
of Kelly's joint venture, and she was based in
Singapore and Switzerland.
Ms. Shuman's career with Kelly spanned three
regions of the globe and a variety of
leadership positions. She first joined Kelly to
establish Kelly Services' operations in Russia.
In 2000, she moved to New York to manage
the Company's operations, key accounts and
strategic growth initiatives in the United
States. She was responsible for managing
Kelly's largest and most complex customer
programs across the U.S., Europe and Asia,
and led strategic cross-divisional projects
focused on delivering value creation for
clients.
In 2011, she relocated to Singapore to focus
on Kelly's customers and partners in the APAC
region. She was then appointed chief
operating officer to Kelly's joint venture
operations in China and North Asia and was
based in Shanghai. For the last four years, she
served as a general manager of EMEA and
APAC regions.
Ms. Shuman completed a dual Global
Executive MBA program at Columbia University
and the London Business School, and
graduated with distinction from St. Petersburg
University of Economics and Finance. She has
been named to U.S. Diversity Magazine's 2015
"Women Worth Watching" list, Staffing Industry
Analysts' 2016 "Global Power 100 – Women in
Staffing" list and nominated as a finalist for
the CNBC 2016 Asia Business Leaders
Awards. She sits on the board of the World
Employment Confederation.
About Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory
testing, inspection and certification services,
with global revenues of €4.55 billion. Created
in 1828, the Group has 69,000 employees
located in 1,400 offices and laboratories
around the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its
clients improve their performance by offering
services and innovative solutions in order to
ensure that their assets, products,
infrastructure and processes meet standards
and regulations in terms of quality, health and
safety, environmental protection and social
responsibility.