Valeo

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Valeo.

They thought that was a good idea.

The Valeo Mondials.

Yep, shout out to the Valeo Mondial Owner Club.

Owner club is eight people.

[laughs]

Hmm.

Okay, so from Arcadis, we're gonna go to France next and the auto parts maker, Valeo.

What have we heard from them?

Yeah.

okay man i'm let's let's continue the story so so this led you into university and you were studying engineering i guess a particular kind of electrical mechanical so

mechanical and uh system system machine systems that's where where i end up and uh at the end of my studies I did this part-time with the company and they said oh let's send you what what do you do after no plan right now and they wanted to send me in Argentina but it was the time In 1999, Argentina broke, the economy broke heavily, so this company Valeo, I was working with, was about to buy this new company there in Argentina, and finally they didn't vote it, so they told me, We don't send you there.

I was very happy to go there.

But then I choose to go to Portugal.

steps.

and transitions in in your career

so three years uh done i was just uh i was not portuguese and i enjoyed the life there because i was right in front of the sea surfing every weekend working hard during the week in this automotive industry but i wanted to come back france and uh Then I came back and I worked for Lear Corporation, which is an American company, and I was in the wire harnesses division leading the innovation department dedicated to the French customers for creating new kind of wire harnesses for Peugeot and Renault.

I had this 7 to 12, depending on the project, 7 to 12 high skilled, very, very good engineers in my team.

Is

there anything off the top of your head that takes you back to the 70s? Just you, like a memory or anything out there, Valeo, getting it in? Is there anything that just pops in your mind? Like, you know what? 77, I remember I was doing this.

Got to do some Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Okay.

Have you kind of gotten that verification?

I have not been able to confirm that because people that work in the automotive industry, they work either with Valeo or Magna or tier ones.

Like most of them don't know if they are, you know, working with machine machines.

It just goes through a tier one.

They are like a tier three, we could say.

So they don't really know what's going in their car.

They just know that, you know, Valeo makes it work.

They comply with regulation.