Benoit Pleska

Benoit Pleska (born on the 12th of August 1969) is a Sloan MBA graduate of Stanford University.

In 2012 he was included in the “private CEO for the state”, governmental project, for becoming the CEO of the Romanian National Company of Highways and National Roads.

Biography
Benoit Pleska was born in Belgium, in Mons, a town known in Europe for ”Doudou”, a medieval festival organized annually on the Sunday of the Holy Trinity, the 57th day after Easter. He has graduated the Economics Faculty from the Fucam University of Belgium and he has a degree in Applied Economics.

He was one of the 50 students selected, from 5.000 applicants from all over the world, for the MBA Sloan program, organized by Stanford University.

He lives in Romania with his wife and the two children. Benoit Pleska is fluent in Romanian, English, French and Russian languages.

Career
During university studies, he chose an Internship program in Hungary, at the Solvay Company.

After graduation, he was recruited by Puratos Company, a worldwide leader for premium bakery product segment. At Puratos, he was promoted as the General Manager for Bulgaria, and after that he transformed Ciabatta from an Italian speciality into an international success.

In 1995 he became Sales and Marketing Manager of Interbrew Romania, a company in the brewing industry, which he transformed it into a market leader position, with a share of 30%.

When Danone planed to expand in Romania, he was the one who built and developed Danone Romania from sketch, starting with an old building, located on the outskirts of Bucharest.

At the beginning of 2000, he was invited to the Swiss company, Holderbank, to take over the rebranding project of the group, which included 350 brands from all over the world. The Holderbank factories from Romania were rebranded into Holcim.

After completing the MBA program at Stanford, he became the General Manager of BBV Ukraine, where he created the largest network of hypermarkets.