Jean-Baptiste Djebarri

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, who will serve on our board of directors following the completion of this offering has a track record of excellence in the fields of aviation, transportation, and energy. He started his career as an airline pilot before gaining executive positions in air carriers and, while serving as the French Minister of Transports, focused on developing sustainable aviation fuels. Mr. Djebbari previously served as a member of the French Parliament from June 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, he was appointed to the French government, served as Secretary of State for Transport from September 2019 to July 2020, and as Minister for Transport from July 2020 to May 2022. As Minister of Transports, he focused on the modernization of the rail system, decarbonization of the automotive and aviation sectors, and the development of satellite capability for transport, and he created the Advanced research agency for Transport (Agence d’innovation dans les Transports) to work on breakthrough technologies in the fields of mobility and logistics.

After politics, Mr. Djebbari served as the executive Chairman of Hopium, a French start-up that develops hydrogen fuel-cell systems and vehicles, where he restructured the company’s strategy, developed plans for industrialization, optimized the company’s workforce, and developed key partnerships, from June 2022 through March 2023. Since February 2023, Mr. Djebbari has served as Managing Partner of Magellim Group’s infrastructure business, a fund dedicated to the financing of infrastructures in the fields of green energy, decarbonized mobility, and resource preservation.

Mr. Djebbari also serves on the boards of several companies in the aerospace sector, including E-SPACE (since June 2023) and Look Up Space (advisory board member since June 2023), and advises several companies and funds with a focus on industrialization and international development. He has also invested in start-ups in the field of mobility.

Mr. Djebbari graduated from Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civileand Ecole Polytechnique. He was also an auditor of the Institute of Advanced Studies of national defense from 2022 to 2023 and is Air Force colonel of the French army reserve.