Navya SA announced the appointment of Sophie Desormière as Chief Executive Officer of NAVYA. The members of the Company's Supervisory Board wished to strengthen NAVYA's governance and unanimously approved the appointment of Sophie Desormière as Chief Executive Officer. She will start on January 5, 2022. With a solid experience of 25 years in management positions within large international groups, including 17 years in the automotive and mobility industry at Valeo and 8 years in the chemical industry at Solvay, Sophie has also demonstrated recently her ability to establish lasting relationships within private equity ecosystems with American and Asian financial partners on mobility projects. Pierre Lahutte, interim Chief Executive Officer of NAVYA in the second half of 2021, keeps his responsibilities in Strategy and Partnerships within the Management Board, in order to continue the discussions initiated with leading strategic partners.