Martin Virot has taken the reins as the leader of DuPont France, which opened its first office in Paris in 1959. 

Virot's earlier DuPont assignments included responsibilities as general director of several segments within Performance Coatings, corporate accounts manager for the automotive industry, and growth leader.

DuPont France has 1,400 employees at seven sites that provide the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region with products for crop protection, seeds, fluorotelomers, industrial and automotive coatings.

Virot's role will be to concentrate resources around a common project, ensure company strategy and directives and well understood, and to enforce and enhance the core values that are the company's binding elements.