bioMérieux has announced the appointment of Nicolas Cartier as Corporate Vice President, Industrial Microbiology Unit, effective May 21, 2013. Before joining bioMérieux, Nicolas Cartier, spent most of his professional career at Sanofi. Since 2009, he has been General Manager of Sanofi France, the Group's second affiliate.

Prior to that, he gained 10 year's international experience through various roles in particular in Thailand, where he was in charge of commercial development for the Southeast Asia region within the Animal Health Division, in Shanghai, where he headed up Sanofi China's Pharmaceutical Division and in Mexico City, where he was General Manager of Sanofi Mexico. In France, Nicolas Cartier was Chief of Staff in the office of the Chairman and CEO of Sanofi France and then Business Unit Manager.