LUCIANO BIONDO

Biography

Luciano Biondo has over 30 years’ experience in the automotive sector, where he has held various industrial positions for several carmakers, most of them French.

He began his career in 1991 at the PSA Peugeot Citroën plant in Sochaux as a production operator, before being promoted to unit manager in 1992.

Between June 1993 and 2000, he took part in the launch of the PSA Peugeot Citroën production plant at Sevelnord, and in the launch of the MPV range for the Group’s four brands (Peugeot Citroën, Fiat and Lancia).

In 2000, he joined Toyota Motor Manufacturing France’s brand-new site in northern France to start up the paint department.

Between 2009 and 2012, he managed the PSA Peugeot Citroën site in Trnava (Slovakia), where the Peugeot 208 and Citroën C3 were produced, and then the PSA Peugeot Citroën industrial hub in Mulhouse until 2013.

Between 2013 and 2020, he was General Manager of Toyota Motor Manufacturing France in Valenciennes, his home town, which he helped to develop competitively and sustainably, and successfully launched the Yaris and Yaris Cross. He was appointed Chairman of BOM in 2016.

In October 2020, Luciano Biondo joins the Renault Group to set up the Northern France industrial hub, dedicated to the manufacture of the brand’s all-electric vehicles, bringing together the Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz plants (5,000 employees). On January 1, 2022, he was appointed General Manager of Renault ElectriCity, Europe’s largest and most efficient production unit for electric vehicles.

On November 1, 2023, Luciano Biondo becomes VP Industrial Operations Ampere.