Stéphane Granier, chief executive of EDF based in Toulouse, says where it came from, between Rodez and Villefranchois. This Aveyron where he spent all his childhood and formed his character.
His mischievous look, his kind smile, his attention… Stéphane Granier inspires natural sympathy, inspires confidence. Perhaps he could have pursued a medical career, devoting his life to caring for others… “Medicine would have been attractive to me too,” he admits. As did his great-uncle, Henri Blancher, a doctor, and his mother, Marie Blancher, a psychologist, before him. For the record, the last one gave birth to little Stéphane on December 7, 1972.
A well-established family in Rodez where his great-grandfather, Victor, president of the commercial court and member of the Société des lettres de l’Aveyron, ran a restaurant, at 3 rue d’Armagnac, where the family home is still established. His son, Marcel, Sabine’s father and Stéphane’s grandfather, married Marie-Madeleine Arnal, from another well-known family on the peak of Roudanach. And Sabine married Alain Granier, originally from Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in 1971.
He met his wife Virginie de Colonges, in Vailhourles
Stéphane Granier was born the following year in Rodez, where he grew up. Kindergarten finished in Saint-Paul, primary school in Sainte-Procule in Saint-Jo to the end of middle school and high school Sainte-Marie, rue Béteille.
A brilliant student, he got a C baccalaureate before doing a good advanced prep, special maths in Paris, boarding at Stanislas high school, “with great teachers”. “Every evening,” he remembers, “a ranger would knock on the door to see if we were there.” He then went to the Centrale Supélec school, in Gif-sur-Yvette, from which he graduated after three years, before doing military service in Paris, in the navy, at the general secretariat of the sea.
At a time when the student was visiting Virginie de Colonges, he met in 1991 near Vailhourles, in Aveyron, at the birthday of his cousin, Natacha de Colonges, the granddaughter of Roland Boscary-Monsservin, a politician, former minister and mayor of Rodez, from 1965 to 1983.
“I was then hired at EDF, in Marseille, in November 1996, as a business manager of work, I have made several trips in the Calanques, walking, diving…” Because behind the quiet man hides a bold sportsman (read elsewhere).
The subtle and hidden Stéphane Granier.
A successful sportsman
Fencing began at a very young age in Rodez, led by the Hungarian fencing master Làszlo Horvath, who helped his family to live in Rodez, and which he still practices in Toulouse; skiing that he discovered at the age of two on the slopes of Laguiole – his grandfather was one of the founders of the resort; Paddling, diving, climbing, kite surfing… Stéphane Granier is a skilled sportsman!
“I like board and water sports,” confirms the Ruthenois “And cycling too, with the family in Aveyron.”
When he’s not riding his Harley Davidson…
The couple spent seven years in Marseille, married in Villeneuve-d’Aveyron in 2000, and welcomed their first child in 2003, Agathe, who was born in the city of Marseille but grew up in Toulouse where the family settled the same year. A family that grew in 2007 and 2012 when Arthur and Margaux arrived. In the pink city, Stéphane Granier is today in charge of the skills and solutions center, which is still at EDF, in the Basso Cambo area. “We are responsible for the technical solution of telephone, e-mail management, SMS, social networks,” he explains. A structure in which there are 11,000 customer advisors, between Toulouse and Paris, of which 7,000 are connected at the same time.
Toulouse, less than two hours from Rodez, Villefranche-de-Rouergue and Villeneuve-d’Aveyron, the cradle of Blancher, Granier and Colonges where Stéphane Granier and his family like to meet. Even if his children call Aveyron “across the gap, because of the telephone network”, they laugh at the Ruthenian.
2024-05-10 15:36:04
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