Sacha Parneix

Sacha Parneix is Vice-President Commercial at Alstom for Africa, Middle East & Central Asia (AMECA). Appointed in May 2021, Sasha is responsible for growing low-carbon mobility in the region, through new railway lines and/or servicing existing lines.

Prior to joining Alstom, Sacha worked as Chief Commercial Officer at General Electric and was responsible for orders intake at Steam Power business. Between 2015 and 2019 Sacha was Regional Sales General Manager over the Middle East & North Africa.

From an engineering background, Sacha Perneix has gathered nearly 30 years of experience in high-tech organizations within the transport (Safran, NASA, Alstom) and electricity (EDF, ABB, Alstom, GE) segments. Under successive commercial roles over the past 15 years, he has developed some specific know-how in commercial team leadership, strategic positioning, partnerships building, deals negotiations as well as leaning and decarbonizing organisations.

He has lived and worked in various countries, including USA, France, Switzerland and UAE.